HCM City’s annual Taste of the World cuisine festival

HCM City (VNA) – HCM City ’s annual Taste of the World cuisine festival
will be held in a public area for the first time to attract more tourists and
residents, the city tourism authority told a press conference on Oct. 6.

It will be in zone B of the September 23 Park in the downtown area, after being
moved from its old home at Van Thanh Tourist Park in Binh Thanh district.
To open on December 3, the four-day festival will feature dishes voted in “ HCM
City – 100 interesting things”, a poll to be done by the city’s
Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Tourism Association. The poll,
undertaken to improve tourist quality, will have a cuisine section.

The most interesting feature of this year’s event will be a street festival on the
opening day, Khanh said.
It will open with a performance of the legend “Banh Chung Banh Day” (Square
and Round Glutinous Rice Cakes), which symbolises Vietnam culinary tradition,
and feature performances by artists from 24 attending countries that will
highlight the jobs of cooks, bartenders, and waiters.
There will also be a rock music night celebrating the king of beverages on the
opening day, followed by two nights of folk music.

The highlights of the festival will include a cocktail-mixing show by the Sai Gon
Bartenders Club, other culinary presentations and folk games.

Vietnam Outdoor Culinary Challenge, a contest organised by the Sai Gon Professional
Chefs Club on the third day, will offer young chefs in HCM City a chance to
display their skills.
Among the more interesting displays will be miniatures of wonders from around the
world and Vietnam , which are made of cans, boxes, bottle caps and fruit.

“The food festival is expected to attract 80,000 visitors,” Nicholas Fraser,
general director of the Youth Advertising JSC, one of the organisers along with
the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Tourism Association,
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