Top 10 must-try dishes at the 2024 Food Culture Festival

Catfish noodle dish from Majestic Saigon Hotel

The contest is a new feature of this year's festival. The voting results were conducted from 40 delicious dishes, representative of more than 400 dishes from the units participating in the festival. The contest judges are experienced culinary experts, long-time culinary instructors and representatives of the festival organizing committee at Van Thanh Tourist Area.

The jury members took turns visiting each competition venue to enjoy the decorative art, then tasted the dishes and listened to the contestants present their elaborately prepared dishes, demonstrating their creativity in presentation as well as their passion and love for their homeland's dishes.

The journey of discovering and experiencing 40 dishes representing the units can be seen as an interesting culinary tour for the judges through the styles, flavors, and ingredients of dishes that are imbued with the identities of the three regions of the North, Central, and South.

Royal Salt Rice - rice served to the king in ancient times

The judges unanimously announced the results of "Top 10 dishes that must be tried at the festival".

The names of the dishes of the winning units (randomly arranged, not in order of ranking) are as follows: Grilled pork with mac mat leaves (Saigon - Ba Be and Saigon - Ban Gioc resorts), tuna eyes stewed with Chinese herbs (Saigon - Phu Yen hotel), Hoi An cao lau (Saigontourane hotel), grilled eel sausage from Nghe An (Saigon - Kim Lien hotel), Royal salted rice (Saigon - Morin hotel), Dalat artichoke chicken pho (Saigon - Da Lat hotel), herbal pork vermicelli (Rex Saigon hotel), Majestic perch vermicelli (Majestic Saigon hotel), herring salad (Saigon - Phu Quoc resort) and ostrich tendon stewed with ginseng (Van Thanh tourist area).

Tuna eyes stewed with Chinese herbs from Saigon - Phu Yen hotel

Mr. Chiem Thanh Long - culinary expert, head of the contest's jury - shared: "Through the contest, we realized that the participating units have carefully researched regional cuisine to express the culinary cultural identity of their locality.

Organizing a contest to vote for the top 10 must-try dishes is also a good idea of ​​this year's festival organizers, which can be seen as a suggestion for diners to easily find and choose dishes from more than 400 dishes at the festival.

Among the voting criteria, we highly appreciate the fact that the dishes must be delicious, attractive, beautifully decorated and especially must have the standard local and regional flavors.

10 units with dishes in the "Top 10 must-try dishes at the Saigontourist Group 2024 Food and Beverage Culture Festival" were awarded a recognition plaque by the organizers, which was hung in front of the unit's booth.

This is also an "identification mark" for festival diners to recognize, taste and experience the voted dishes, alongside their favorite dishes and drinks.

Grilled eel sausage from Nghe An from Saigon - Kim Lien Hotel

The festival is organized by Saigon Tourist Group, open to the public from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day, continuously from March 28 to 31, 2024 at Van Thanh Tourist Area, Ho Chi Minh City.

At the festival, experienced chefs from more than 40 4-5 star hotels and resorts of the corporation and some partners introduced to the public more than 400 typical regional dishes at more than 40 culinary booths arranged in 3 regions: North, Central, South. Among them, there are many unique and delicious dishes introduced for the first time at the festival.

Visitors to the festival not only come to "eat", but also have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a space filled with a festive atmosphere imbued with the cultural identity of the three regions. Along with the culinary space is an area for "real-life" viewing of traditional craft villages, a folk game area, and performances of traditional art forms in the form of a traveling performance.

In particular, in the craft village area, the folk cake village with more than 50 types of cakes, visitors can freely experience learning how to wrap leaves, bake, steam, fry cakes with artisans, learn how to make vermicelli, weave hats, make rice paper, bake rice crackers, brew wine, and make fu ling cakes.

These interactive activities are organized for diners to experience, try for free and enjoy the festive atmosphere, only available at the festival.

Herbal pork vermicelli from Rex Hotel Saigon

To participate in the Saigontourist Group 2024 Food and Culture Festival , visitors can buy entrance tickets with coupons attached to use the service, purchased directly at the entrance gate of Van Thanh Tourist Area, with a package ticket price of 200,000 VND/adult, children under 1.4m tall are free.

For more information, customers contact: Van Thanh Tourist Area: 0901 889 705; or contact hotline : 0901 889 709 - 0868 769 064.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/top-10-mon-phai-thu-tai-le-hoi-van-hoa-am-thuc-2024-20240330145510817.htm