More than 100 Southern folk cakes in the festival in Can Tho

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JOINING THE FESTIVAL IN CAN THO, you have the opportunity to enjoy more than 100 types of Southern folk cakes at 200 stalls and experience many interesting activities.

The theme of this year’s Southern Folk Cake Festival is “Preserving and promoting the value of Southern folk cakes”, taking place from April 7 to April 11, at Binh Thuy District Square (Dang Van Street). Day, Binh Thuy Ward, Binh Thuy District, Can Tho City). This is an annual cultural event held by this province every year.

This year’s festival is expected to have the participation of 200 stalls including bamboo leaf stall, folk cake area; bamboo leaf food stall; standard stalls of regional specialties and tourism. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience many typical flavors in Southern culinary culture, especially folk cakes; search for childhood memories; live in the nostalgic space of the time when his father opened the realm; learn the traditional culture of the nation.

Photo: My Trinh
Banh xeo, banh khot stall at the Southern Folk Cake Festival 2019. Photo: My Trinh

Besides, the festival also organizes many activities such as: offering cakes at the temple of King Hung in Can Tho city; the opening ceremony was televised live on Vietnam Television Station (VTV9) in Can Tho city and Can Tho City Radio and Television Station; folk cake contest in Can Tho city in 2022; Demonstrating how to make traditional cakes.

Many stalls serve food, display and introduce auxiliary industrial products for folk cakes (raw materials – baking tools); booths to introduce and promote OCOP products and local products; the Southern folk cake contest of the provinces, cities and districts… are also interesting activities at the festival.

Little bare cake - one of the folk cakes
Little ceiling cake – one of the cakes with a typical flavor in Southern culinary culture. Photo: My Trinh

The representative of the Organizing Committee said that the event contributes to preserving and promoting the value of Vietnamese culinary culture in general and the value of Southern folk cakes in particular; create conditions for businesses and tourists to experience, strengthen links, cooperation, investment promotion and exploitation. Activities aimed at building folk cakes into national brands; attracting domestic and foreign tourists to the folk cake festival to experience Southern culinary culture.

“This is the occasion of Can Tho to celebrate the series of events to inaugurate the Temple of the Hung Kings in Can Tho city; the death anniversary of Hung Kings (March 10 of the lunar calendar) and celebrate the 47th anniversary of the liberation of the South and the reunification of the country (30th March). April 1975 – April 30, 2022); International Labor Day May 1. Activities contributing to the gradual recovery of the tourism industry to adapt safely, flexibly, effectively control Covid-19 and create market’s confidence in safe and attractive domestic tourism”, the organizers added.

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