Annual Taste of the World Culinary Festival in HCM City

(Cinet)- Taste of the World Culinary Festival will take a symbol of a national record for the largest banh xeo (savoury rice pancake) at the Taste of the World Culinary Festival held in HCMC in December.

The seventh edition of the festival will be held at the September 23 Park in HCM City from December 12 to 16, honouring Vietnamese and other gastronomic cultures from around the world. It is organised by the city Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the HCM City Tourism Association.

One of the dishes voted into the "HCMC – 100 interesting things" programme, this southern specialty is made from flour, turmeric powder, coconut milk, slivers of fatty pork, shrimp, and bean sprout. It is a popular dish served in many restaurants in the city's downtown area.

Taste of the World Culinary Festival is expected to feature 50 city restaurants that offer food from 25 countries.
Besides instrumental and don ca tai tu (a genre of folk music that developed and spread mainly in the south during the last century) performances, the festival will include several other events. There will be traditional dances from South Korea, Russia, Germany, while the host country will showcase pastoral harmonies and folk melodies through performances titled Dan ca ba mien (Folk songs of three regions), and Am thuc muon mau (Multicolour gastronomy).

They include festivals for five-star-hotel executive chefs and wrap and roll dishes, and bartending performances.

Visitors will have a chance to feast their eyes on a montage created from pictures of the Vietnamese ao ba ba (loose-fitting blouse worn in the south) and ao dai (traditional long tunic), the Korean hanbok, and the Japanese kimono.