Hanoi World Cultural Festival: Cuisine connects cultures and ethnicities

VOV.VN - On the afternoon of October 11, as soon as the heavy rain in Hanoi ended, a large number of people and tourists flocked to the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Relic Site to experience cultural and culinary activities at the first Hanoi World Cultural Festival in 2025.

The first Hanoi World Cultural Festival 2025 takes place with many experiential activities, art performances, cultural presentations and interactions with 45 national cultural spaces from around the world.

There are 23 domestic and foreign art troupes attending the festival. In the photo: Vietnamese and Japanese art troupes perform Yosakoi street dance.

At the “Cultural Road” experience area, visitors can visit booths from China, Korea, Japan, the United States, Russia, France, Iran, Angola, Laos, the Philippines...

...and explore the unique history, art, language, culture, costumes, and customs of each country.

In particular, visitors have the opportunity to experience wearing traditional costumes of many countries around the world.

There are many check-in locations with cultural characteristics of countries for tourists.

Check-in point at the Philippines booth.

The culinary district always attracts a lot of people and tourists to visit and experience.

Visitors can enjoy delicious dishes and experience and explore unique multi-national culinary cultures.

Join a culinary workshop to learn about the signature dishes of many different cultures.

There are 34 international food stalls offering signature dishes from cultures across continents.

The chef at the Mexican food stall (right) happily shows off his Vietnamese name "Long Rau". He expressed: I really like food festivals like this, where people can experience the differences and uniqueness in culinary cultures from all over the world. Through cuisine, cultures around the world will come closer together. Cuisine helps to strongly connect cultures, despite the differences.

Turkish chef is making famous grilled chicken tagliatelle.

Dishes are prepared on-site and close to visitors, increasing opportunities to learn and exchange between countries.

Many tourists commented that Philippine street food is very similar to Vietnamese street food, especially grilled food.

A lot of street food is introduced to serve visitors.

Visitors try molasses wine at the Venezuelan Embassy booth.

Visitors wait to enjoy fruit drinks at the Cuban food booth.

Chicken wings, chicken feet, grilled skewers from Japan.

The World Culture Festival in Hanoi is open to the public until October 12. The closing ceremony will take place from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on October 12.

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