Saigontourist Group receives two world culinary awards

Saigon Tourist Group won the awards for Asia's Best Food Festival 2023 and World's Best Food Festival 2023.

Saigontourist Group 2023 Food and Culture Festival event wins The above two categories are part of the 4th World Culinary Awards 2023. The award ceremony and gala dinner were held in Dubai, Saudi Arabia on the evening of October 16. This is the first time that the Vietnamese tourism and culinary industry has been honored at this world award.

Mr. Truong Duc Hung (middle), Head of the Organizing Committee and Mr. Nguyen Tien Dat, Permanent Deputy Head of the Organizing Committee of the Saigontourist Group Food and Culture Festival, received the award cup at the World Culinary Awards 2023. Photo: Saigontourist Group

"These awards are both a great motivation and a challenge for Saigontourist Group to strive to organize more unique and large-scale culinary cultural events in the future," said Mr. Pham Huy Binh, Chairman of Saigontourist Group.

At the Saigontourist Group Food and Culture Festival 2023 held at Van Thanh Tourist Area (HCMC) at the end of April, with 42 The food stalls are designed and distributed according to the North - Central - South clusters. Saigontourist Group introduces over 350 typical regional dishes and healthy drinks, meeting the current demand for clean, green and healthy food. Diners coming here are impressed and appreciate the content and quality of the dishes with strong local flavors.

Food booth of member company at Saigontourist Group Food Culture and Delicious Dishes Festival 2023. Photo: Saigontourist Group

The booths include Traditional craft villages such as wine making, making fu ling cakes, weaving coconut leaves, pottery making, mat weaving, making vermicelli, tofu, carrying stalls at the countryside market, and village tea shops... bring color and a bustling, joyful and peaceful festival atmosphere. In addition, the festival also has performances of Then singing, Tinh lute, Quan Ho singing, Hue singing, Don Ca Tai Tu, Tan Co Giao Duyen, folk arts such as bamboo dancing, monkey dancing, and bamboo flute playing.

In addition, Saigontourist Group's chefs and artisans here also perform the art of mixing, carving vegetables and displaying regional dishes, creating a unique picture. This is one of the key activities of Saigontourist Group to contribute to promoting the attractiveness and uniqueness of Vietnamese cuisine to international tourists.

In addition to cuisine, the festival also includes many folk cultural activities. Photo: Saigontourist Group

The event served over 40,000 visitors - beyond the planned number. In addition to visitors from Ho Chi Minh City, the festival welcomed many visitors from far away provinces, overseas Vietnamese, and international visitors. Saigontourist Group Food and Culture Festival, Delicious Dishes Not only is it a simple event, it is also considered to exceed expectations when achieving many goals: stimulating tourism, diversifying Ho Chi Minh City tourism products, and promoting Vietnamese culinary culture.

The World Culinary Awards celebrate and reward excellence in the culinary industry through the annual World Culinary Awards program.

Saigontourist Group currently manages over 100 hotels, resorts, restaurants, travel agencies, entertainment areas, tourism training schools, etc. The Corporation also has a lot of experience in organizing international culinary cultural events, which have been successfully implemented in countries around the world. Recently, on October 7-8 at Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan, Saigontourist Group cooperated with Tuoi Tre newspaper and the Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam - Japan Friendship Association to successfully organize the Vietnam Pho Festival 2023. The event included a series of activities introducing pho and Vietnamese delicacies, cultural and artistic exchanges, attracting over 85,000 visitors.

Thanh Thu

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