Experience the culinary culture of ethnic groups in the Northeast region

(Fatherland) - On the second day of the 11th Northeast Ethnic Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival, localities brought visitors unique culinary and cultural experiences and sports competitions.

The Northeast is one of the seven major cultural regions of Vietnam and is home to many ethnic minorities such as Tay, Nung, Mong, Dao, San Chay, etc. Mentioning the Northeast is mentioning a rich culture, rich in language, costumes, festivals, rituals, etc. in which sports and cuisine are an indispensable part.

On November 3, the 11th Northeast Ethnic Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival organized ethnic sports competitions and displayed traditional food stalls for visitors to visit, enjoy and buy as gifts.

Exciting sports atmosphere at the Festival

Traditional sports such as stilts, shuttlecock throwing, stick pushing, etc. are cultural features preserved and maintained through many generations of ethnic people in Lang Son in particular and the Northeastern provinces in general.

Not only meeting the needs of entertainment and health improvement, folk sports also show the unique and close features in the cultural and spiritual life of the mountainous people because most of them are associated with simple competition equipment.

The athletes were full of enthusiasm, everyone did their best to complete the best performance, winning medals with the spirit of "having fun is the main thing". To fuel the athletes, the supporters, the people and tourists also cheered enthusiastically, in the cool, pleasant weather, the Festival took place even more jubilantly and bustlingly.

Visitors experience sports activities at the Festival

The Northeast is a mountainous region of our country with diverse terrain and climate, dense river systems, overlapping mountains, many valleys, favorable for the development of rich and abundant vegetation. Based on these natural conditions, people have taken advantage of, exploited, created and developed dishes with rich identity.

Coming to the northernmost lands of the Fatherland, diners cannot ignore the cuisine here, the wonderful crystallization of the quintessence of heaven and earth and the endless creativity of humans.

Tourists enjoy traditional Lang Son rice trays

In the culinary exhibition booths of the Festival, the trays of food are filled with traditional dishes of Lang Son such as roast duck, roast pork, braised pork, five-color sticky rice, etc., attracting tourists.

Ms. Nguyet Nga, a native of Lang Son, a contestant in the tour guide skills competition, shared: In the Tay people's meals in Bac Son, Lang Son, there are always black sticky rice cakes, purple sticky rice, roast pork, roast duck... These are basic dishes that are often found in the Tay people's meals, whether it is a daily meal or a holiday or a worshiping meal.

Northeastern products attract tourists

At the event, Lang Son brought to the Festival a uniquely prepared dish, smoked pork belly. The Tay people in Bac Son live in stilt houses, and every day, they use wood stoves to warm and cook. After butchering a pig, they do not wash it but instead use coarse salt to marinate the meat and then hang it over the stove. The heat of the stove and the smoke will create a delicious flavor, appealing to the taste and smell of this dish.

Besides, there are also many traditional dishes such as five-color sticky rice, banh te, banh bo, grass jelly... or famous mountain fruits such as Mau Son peach, Bao Lam persimmon, Chi Lang custard apple, chestnut, black canarium,... also processed and sold right at the Festival's booths./.

An An- P. Anh

Source: https://toquoc.vn/trai-nghiem-van-hoa-am-thuc-cac-dan-toc-vung-dong-bac-20241103212224267.htm