Nearly 100 visitors from Australia, Finland and RoK enjoy Chung cake wrapping festival in Binh Thuan

Wearing a traditional Vietnamese costume, foreign tourists are interested in making Chung cake (Photo: baotintuc.vn)

Chung cake (the square glutinous rice cake) is an indispensable cake in traditional Vietnamese Tet, but to international visitors it is quite strange. After being introduced to the history and meaning of the cake in Vietnamese culinary culture, especially during Tet, visitors begin to wrap Banh Chung themselves.

The cake is stuffed full of glutinous rice, fat meat, and green beans. All of the ingredients are wrapped using phrynium leaves and then tied up by bamboo strings.

Wearing a traditional Vietnamese costume, Ringsaker from Norway shared that he has taken part in the festival several times. He noted that he really likes the meaning of the local delicacy, as well as traditional Vietnamese culture during Tet.

Meanwhile, Kicki and Jorgen, a couple from Sweden, noted that they had heard a lot about Vietnamese Tet, although this was the first time they could wrap the cake.“It is not an easy task but very interesting,” they excitedly said.

On this occasion, many interesting programmes, including a food festival, calligraphy writing, and folk games, were also held. /.