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| Southern Folk Cake Festival features more than 300 booths |
The 4th Southern Folk Cake Festival in Ca Mau in 2024 brings together 300 booths of 150 participating businesses, along with many artisans and good bakers in many provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta and the Southern region.
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| A pavilion displays folk cakes at the 4th Southern Folk Cake Festival. |
There are 60 booths displaying dozens of types of folk cakes from many localities in Ca Mau Province and many neighbouring provinces and cities.
This festival also has booths displaying OCOP products and typical goods of localities in the Mekong Delta region.
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| Southern Folk Cake Festival features more than 300 booths |
In the first two days, the Southern Folk Cake Festival in Ca Mau attracted thousands of visitors to visit, shop, and experience cuisine.
Coming to the Southern Folk Cake Festival in Ca Mau, visitors can also enjoy the cuisine of several other countries, such as Japan, Thailand, and Cambodia.
In addition, within the framework of the festival, there will also be a contest of pouring banh xeo, wrapping banh tet, and folk games.
The event is expected to contribute to preserving and promoting Vietnamese culinary culture, especially that of the Southern region.
As part of the programme "Ca Mau - A destination 2024", Ca Mau has also organised a series of events titled "U Minh Forest Fragrance" at the Trem River Ecotourism Area and U Minh Town, U Minh District, Ca Mau Province.
This series of events provide an opportunity for Ca Mau to promote the land, people, cultural identity, and tourism potential of the locality to tourists both inside and outside the province, while also promoting the development of the smokeless industry.
Khanh Hoa province seeks tourism partners in Thailand
According to VNA, the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has introduced its tourism potential to potential partners in Thailand at a conference held in the Thai capital Bangkok.
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| At the conference in Bangkok on April 26 (Photo: VNA) |
At the conference, Vietnamese Ambassador-designate to Thailand Pham Viet Hung said there is great potential of tourism cooperation between Vietnam and Thailand, citing statistics that nearly half a million Thai tourists visited Vietnam and 900,000 Vietnamese travelled to Thailand last year.
He held that the signing of MoUs on tourism linkages at the conference will help promote cooperation between the two countries in the field.
Vice Chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Pairat Burapachaisri took note of Khanh Hoa’s advantages, particularly its Nha Trang city, a popular beach destination for foreign holidaymakers.
Saranya Sakontanarak from the Thailand-Vietnam Business Council also said Khanh Hoa is home to many quality tourism destinations, meeting the needs of various segments of tourists. She urged Thai businesses to explore investment opportunities in the Vietnamese province.
On the occasion, the Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa tourism association signed an MoU on cooperation with the Thai Tourism Association.
Vietnam Festival 2024 opens in Osaka
The second Vietnam Festival in Osaka, Japan has opened following the success of the first event in 2023 held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam – Japan diplomatic relations, reported VNA.
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| At the second Vietnam Festival in Osaka, Japan (Photo: VNA) |
The two-day event was jointly held by the Vietnamese General Consulate in Osaka in collaboration with the administrations of Japanese prefectures in Kansai region and Vietnamese associations and organisations.
Vietnamese General Consul Ngo Trinh Ha said he believes that the festival will bring the Vietnamese culture as well as the image of a dynamic Vietnam with various tourist attractions closer to Japan.
Speaking highly of the General Consulate’s efforts to organise the event, Ambassador Pham Quang Hieu stressed that it will popularise the Vietnamese cultural values among the international community, helping enhance mutual understanding and promote the bilateral relations.
He took the occasion to thank leaders of localities in Kansai for accompanying and supporting the Vietnamese community to better integrate into the host nation.
For his part, Japanese Ambassador in charge of Kansai region Tsutomo Himeno expressed his delight over the sound ties between Vietnam and Kansai and Japan as a whole, hoping the two countries will join hands to build a happy world.
The festival also received letters of congratulations from Governor of Osaka prefecture Yoshimura Hirofumi, and Governor of Nara prefecture Yamashita Makoto, and Mayor of Osaka city Yokoyama Hideyuki.
Along with booths displaying Vietnamese traditional cuisine, the organising board arranged ones for Vietnamese businesses to introduce their products and services.
On the occasion, the Vietnamese community in Kansai organised a ceremony to offer incense to commemorate the Hung Kings./.