Van Thanh Tourist Area in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District will present a big selection of delicious food from Vietnam’s three regions from Friday till Sunday.
The food program called “Ngay Hoi Que Toi” will go from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on three days to introduce Vietnam’s rich culinary arts to tourists.
Hundreds of dishes from the North, Central and South will be served in an open setting with food booths, a craft village area, countryside markets, folk games and ethnic music shows.
Staff will wear the traditional costumes while visitors can experience what it is like to be at a country market with vendors crying out their wares.
Cheo (Vietnamese popular opera), gongs, Cham dances, Hue folk songs and don ca tai tu (Southern opera) will be performed.
Folk games include making boats with banana leaves, making toys with coconut and bamboo leaves, climbing the greasy pole, bamboo pole dance and making to he toys from colored rice dough.
The craft village area will have displays on how to make baskets, My Long rice paper, Hoi An lanterns and rice wine.
Van Thanh Tourist Park is at 48/10 Dien Bien Phu Street, Ward 22, Binh Thanh District, tel: 08 3512 3025.
(Collected by: Vietnam hotel)