Thursday 28 May 2015

Southern Cuisine Festival 2015

The 5th Southern Cuisine Festival 2015 with the theme “The rendezvous of nine rivers” will officially take place from 29 May to 1 June in Dam Sen Cultural Park (No. 03 Hoa Binh Street, Ward 3, District 11, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).

This is an annual event organized by Agency for Southern Affairs (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism), Department of Tourism and Tourism Association of Ho Chi Minh City in collaboration with Phu Tho Tourist Company. The event aims to contribute to enriching the culture, sports events of the city at the same time introduce to domestic and foreign tourists specialties of the regions and quintessential cuisine culture values of Viet Nam and also Southern region. This is also an opportunity for enterprises of provinces/cities in Southern region to exchange experiences, promote culinary brands, enhance cooperation, thereby creating the linkage in developing tourism products of Southern provinces, contributing to the overall development of the tourism industry.

This year’s festival is expected to have over 100 booths of more than 50 enterprises, restaurants, hotels in Ho Chi Minh City and provinces/cities from Thua Thien Hue to Ca Mau. Each booth will be designed and decorated according to its own theme showing the specific features of its region, such as Central cuisine, Central Highlands cuisine, Southern cuisine, Sai Gon cuisine…

To the Southern Cuisine Festival 2015, besides the attractive culinary and festive activities such as introducing and selling more than 250 specialties of the regions, reappearing “Southern countryside market” space, “Southern delicious food” contest, the contest of booth decoration, recreating Chol Chnam Thmay Festival of Khmer ethnic group..., visitors will also have the opportunity to enjoy many musical, dramatic, circus and folk arts performance programs (art of don ca tai tu music and song, traditional instrument concert, bai choi singing…), join in the folk games such as footbridges, fishing, cricket fighting…

The tickets of the Southern Cuisine Festival 2015 (200,000VND/ticket) are sold at the gate of Dam Sen Cultural Park. When buying this ticket, visitors will get free entrance ticket of Dam Sen Cultural Park, culinary voucher worth 200,000VND and discount 50% of package ticket to Dam Sen Park. In particular, visitors buying from 5 tickets and over will receive home delivery and 5% discount (from 10 tickets and over).

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