Shopping trends for Tet 2024: Go to one place, shop for the whole Tet

ANTD.VN - If you are having a headache because you have to find a place to shop for Tet with "everything under the sun", the "huge" scale 2024 Spring Fair held in Ocean City will be an option not to be missed.

As a festival following the year-end events in Ocean City, the 2024 Spring Fair will last 15 days, from January 25 to February 8 (ie December 15 to 29) with the theme "The market is more fun than Tet, the street is more crowded than the festival".

Considered the largest and most attractive event in Vietnam, the 2024 Spring Fair will gather more than 400 booths, creating a Tet shopping complex stretching over 3km from the starting point of the Venice River - Grand World, Vinhomes Ocean Park 3 to the Center Point commercial complex in Vinhomes Ocean Park 2.

Spring Fair 2024 is the largest and most attractive Tet shopping festival in the North.

Secret to shopping for Tet right away, having everything

At the 2024 Spring Fair, visitors can easily find all the flavors of Tet from specialties of the 3 regions of North - Central - South to unique products from Asia and Europe; dishes associated with famous brands in Vietnam to special items for Tet such as decorations, offerings, votive paper; Tet costumes or decorative bonsai,...

In addition, visitors can find regional specialties at dozens of booths on the Boulevard of the Capital of Light and Center Point (Vinhomes Ocean Park 2) to give as gifts to friends and relatives. The organizers also find and invite high-quality, rare OCOP (local specialties) products to serve the most "gourmet" customers.

The booths will be designed in a typical Vietnamese style.

This will be an area that food lovers especially love with the "best" of the 3 regions from the Northwest specialties (delicious bamboo shoots, smoked meat) to delicious Hanoi green rice, Vu Dai braised fish, Phu Tho sour meat, Thanh Hoa sour sausage, Thanh Hoa spring rolls, Binh Dinh tre, Soc Trang pia cake, U Minh forest honey, etc. On the way to spring, visitors can accidentally encounter childhood gifts, rustic delicacies such as sesame candy, peanut candy, stuffed candy, fish cake, gai cake, cu do, rice paper, hot cassava dessert...

Continuing the culinary “series”, visitors can visit the area of ​​the City of Light square to bring home familiar, pre-made dishes with typical flavors such as ham, pickled onions, shrimp paste, etc. and especially traditional cakes such as banh chung, banh tet, banh day. These are the main dishes, indispensable on the Vietnamese Tet meal tray and are the dishes that hold the “best-seller” position at Tet fairs.

However, if you are a person who lives a “home-cooked” lifestyle and wants to have more interesting experiences during Tet, at the 2024 Spring Fair, visitors will be fully “equipped” with traditional cake making ingredients from dong leaves, sticky rice, string, green beans, etc. to typical spices such as pepper, fish sauce, salt.

Ingredients are also available for sale to help visitors experience making Tet cakes themselves.

The Boulevard of the Capital of Light and the Center Point area are also places to sell unique gifts for visitors to give to relatives and friends during Tet at the Handicraft Fair with products from famous traditional craft villages across the country. This area focuses on booths of pottery, bamboo weaving, mother-of-pearl inlay, lacquer paintings, ... to hundreds of rare orchids or typical Tet ornamental plants such as apricot, peach, kumquat with all shapes of trees prepared by artisans for many years.

In addition to traditional products with the colors of Vietnamese Tet, those who love the modern Tet style can visit nearly 50 booths selling products from Europe to Asia located in the two Venice and K-Town subdivisions of Grand World, Vinhomes Ocean Park 3. Here, visitors will be able to indulge in their "passion for food" with high-end products such as red ginseng, wine, cigars, truffles, ham, cheese... to "luxurious" gift sets, to trendy "cold cut" cold food sets.

Grand World - Venice subdivision will be an attractive shopping destination gathering international import booths.

…and check-in “burning the machine”, experience to the fullest

Coming to the 2024 Spring Fair, visitors can not only satisfy their passion for shopping but also "bring home" "thousand-like" photos with hundreds of thousands of "virtual life" angles in the Grand Scene areas at the 2024 Spring Fair.

Standing out with the “flower forest” stretching throughout the festival space from the Ocean City hot air balloon scene at Venice Square, to the Dragon Festival scene at the 4 Seasons Avenue (Vinhomes Ocean Park 3), the Four-panel painting scene at the Capital of Light Square and the Hang Street Tet scene at Center Point (Vinhomes Ocean Park 2). Just by dressing up in the traditional ao dai typical of the 3 regions, visitors can check-in “burning the phone”, “charging the memory” with attractive spring travel memories.

The 2024 Spring Fair will be a "hot" check-in spot with a decor style imbued with Vietnamese Tet.

The 2024 Spring Fair is also a place where visitors can participate in typical experiential activities such as free rental of Tet ao dai for taking photos, hair cutting services, workshops on wrapping banh chung, banh tet, making lucky money envelopes at the City of Light Square, or participating in traditional games such as stilts, mandarin squares, tug of war, street circus, etc. at K-Town Square. Many folk and modern music stages and parades, mixed with dragon dances, are also held during this series of Spring Fair days.

Tourists can enjoy traditional cultural and recreational activities during the days before Tet.

To visit and shop at the Ocean City Spring Fair 2024, visitors can come to Ocean City via the Hanoi - Hai Phong Expressway, National Highway 5 or use the green vehicle VinBus with routes operating from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. with a frequency of 15-20 minutes/trip.

Including routes connecting the central area of ​​Hanoi city such as E01 (My Dinh Bus Station - So Intersection - Vinhomes Ocean Park); E02 (Hao Nam - Long Bien - Vinhomes Ocean Park); E03 (My Dinh Bus Station - Thai Ha - Vinhomes Ocean Park); newly adjusted and completely free VinBus routes such as OCT01 (starting point Royal City), OCT02 (starting point Bo Ho) and OCT03 (starting point Van Giang) connecting central areas such as Royal City, Times City, Hoan Kiem Lake, Van Giang to Ocean City.

Ocean City residents can use the internal VinBus routes to travel here to shop, check-in or participate in unique experiences never seen before in the Eastern area of ​​Hanoi.

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