Saigontourist Group 2025 Food and Culture Festival

NDO - On the evening of March 27, at Van Thanh Tourist Area, Saigon Tourist Corporation held the opening ceremony of the Saigontourist Group 2025 Food and Culture Festival, introducing to tourists typical drinks from regions across the country.

Saigontourist Group 2025 Food and Drink Culture Festival introduces to tourists and locals more than 600 delicious dishes selected and refined from all three regions of the country, local products prepared by chefs of 4-5 star hotels, resorts, restaurants belonging to the Saigontourist Group system in Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities across the country.

Northern cuisine is attractive with dishes such as bun thang, La Vong fish cake, Thanh Tri rice rolls, Ho Tay shrimp cakes, Hanoi vermicelli with grilled pork, Hai Phong spicy crab rice noodles, Lang Gau Hung Yen sticky rice cakes, Lang Son sour pho...

Booth introducing delicious dishes of Cao Bang province.

The central region has dishes such as Hoi An Cao Lau, Quang noodles with chicken and young chicken eggs, Cau Mong roasted veal from Quang; Nam Pho noodle soup, rice, vermicelli with mussels from Vi village, Underworld rice - a famous specialty of Hue that is over 100 years old; Thanh Chuong pickled vegetables from Nghe An, Quang Binh brown rice porridge; Cua chicken with salt; duck pancakes, Phan Thiet vermicelli...

Dishes made from chicken by central chefs.

Southern cuisine is also extremely rich, from delicious street food in Saigon, flavors of the Mekong Delta, specialties of the coconut lands of Ben Tre, Tay Ninh, Long An to delicious seafood dishes of Phu Quoc, Con Dao, unique flavors with delicious drinks, airline meals from Vietnam Airlines...

The chefs prepare grilled fresh squid.

The festival also introduces countless "unique and strange" dishes of the highlands such as smoked buffalo meat, grilled fish from Ba Be Lake, Cao Bang corn rolls, Quan Ba ​​thang co, buffalo sausage, grilled sausage from Lo River; grilled pork from the Central Highlands, grilled wild pork in bamboo tubes, Kon Tum leaf salad with 60 types of leaves and wild vegetables; border flavors with Mong Cai pork with meatballs, Tien Yen chicken marinated in salt and pepper, Da Lat snacks, "Culinary stalls" at the rural market will serve sticky rice dishes on mobile carts, sweet soups at bamboo chairs and counters... for those who live far away from home.

Snacks are very popular with tourists.

Visitors to the festival also have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the jubilant and vibrant atmosphere with many unique cultural and artistic activities such as bamboo dance - monkey dance (or gong performance), bamboo dance - xoe dance, bamboo dance - monkey dance and bamboo dance - bamboo flute, water puppetry, street magic circus, Thai xoe dance, quan ho, don ca tai tu, bai choi singing, Hue singing, Central Highlands gong performance of the Xo Dang ethnic group, traditional lithophone, call-and-response singing...

The festival is open to the public from 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day, from March 27 to March 30.

This is a key activity in a series of programs and events of Saigontourist Group in response to the celebration of major holidays in Ho Chi Minh City and the 50th anniversary of the establishment and development of Saigontourist Group (August 1, 1975 - August 1, 2025).

Cultural and artistic activities during the Festival.

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