Many highlights at the Southern Traditional Cake Festival 2025

The 2025 Southern Traditional Cake Festival enters its 12th season with many innovations and creativity in presentation and promotion. The highlight is the promotion of a giant pancake with a diameter of 3m, a circumference of 9m, using more than 100 lobsters. This is the second time the festival has performed this type of cake, attracting a large number of people and tourists to visit and enjoy it for free.

"Super big" pancake with 100 lobsters at the Festival.

In addition, the “giant” banh chung with dimensions of 1.9m x 1.9m, 0.8m thick, weighing 1.6 tons is also a special highlight. To make the cake, the organizers prepared more than 600kg of sticky rice, 235kg of green beans, 215kg of pork belly, along with more than 1,000 banana leaves, 1,800 dong leaves and strings sent from the North.

Traditional Cake Making Contest at the Festival.

The cake was made according to southern tastes but still kept the typical shape of northern banh chung, creating a harmonious combination of two regional culinary styles. After being displayed, the cake was divided and shared among more than 2,000 visitors.

This year’s festival brings together 231 booths from 18 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta region and many other localities across the country. Among them are 118 traditional cake booths, 59 regional specialty booths and 40 modern culinary booths, creating a diverse and attractive dining space.

Many delicious and eye-catching cakes at the Southern Traditional Cake Festival 2025.

The festival officially opened at 7:00 p.m. on April 6 at Binh Thuy District Square and was broadcast live on Can Tho City Radio and Television.

With new creations and preserved cultural values, the Southern Traditional Cake Festival continues to be a unique destination, connecting tourism-cuisine-community of the southern region.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/nhieu-diem-nhan-tai-le-hoi-banh-dan-gian-nam-bo-nam-2025-post870517.html