Hi Hiver! As a person with a passion for food, especially regional specialities and folk cakes, you should not miss the Southern Folk Cake Festival held in Can Tho.
The southern folk cake will be held from April 6 to 10, 2022 (on the 6th to 10th of the third lunar month) at Binh Thuy District Square, Can Tho City. (Dang Van Day Street, Binh Thuy Ward, Binh Thuy District, Can Tho City). Because of the distance from the city centre. Can Tho is about 7km from Can Tho, I don't know the way, so I decided to book Grab for convenience. When Mr Grab came to pick him up, he was not familiar with the road, but he was very enthusiastic. The car drove to the Temple of Hung King, I also came and who expected to have to run about 1km to arrive. Grab doesn't have this area so I just walk in, it's sunny and far away, plus going the opposite way to the back door takes a long way.
The morning I went was the first day, so the customers were not too crowded, mainly the stalls were preparing and displaying cakes. This year's event has a scale of about 200 booths: bamboo leaf stall, folk cake area, bamboo leaf stall, Foodcourt, standard stall of regional specialities and tourism. This folk cake festival will enjoy countless delicious dishes from many regions of the North - Central - South with cultural and culinary exchanges of countries around the world. Come here, I can also see with my own eyes some processes and methods of each type of Southern speciality, and enjoy the unique flavours of each region such as Bun mam, My Tho noodle soup, pho, grilled spring rolls. the West, snakehead fish vermicelli, bread,….and many other delicious dishes. Especially, there is a stall of grilled beefcakes of the Cham people, the unique point is that the cake is made with an earthen pot, on a wood stove, the lid of the pot must also be heated over a fire before being covered on the cake mould, made by the Cham woman herself. The price of 1 piece is 15k, the taste I eat is like the style of pepper cake but it's thick, the cake has just been fried hot and it's quite delicious. The cake stalls are colourfully decorated with all kinds of cakes: beefcake, pigskin cake, banana cake, apricot leaf cake, jaggery cake...
After walking around a few times to visit, I closed the order and got many dishes. The dishes here are from 5,000 to 200,000 VND depending on the dish, you can buy green bean fruit cake for 5,000 VND / piece, mixed folk cake for 25,000 VND / part, fish cake for 15,000 VND, hotdog cake for 15,000 VND / pair, Cham beefcake 15,000vnd, Ginseng water 10,000vnd/bottle...at this time, the cake is still delicious, every dish is delicious. And at night when I read the review, I criticized everything, this is also true that the cake left all day in the hot sun will also burn and sour. About the price, in my opinion, it is acceptable, buying and selling, when buying, also have to ask the price first, ok, happy buying. It's normal for festivals to be crowded and jostled. It's been 2 years since Can Tho held such large festivals, so the number of visitors is very large.
The festival promotes the image of the land, people, Southern culture in general and the Can Tho tourism industry. Introduce typical cakes and contribute to preserving and promoting the culinary cultural values of the people of the South. In addition, the festival also has many activities held at the event such as a Cake offering ceremony at Hung King Temple in Can Tho city, an Opening ceremony broadcast live on Vietnam Television (VTV9) in Can Tho city and Can Tho City Radio and Television Station, Folk Cake Contest, demonstrating how to make folk cakes; Organizing food stalls, displaying and introducing auxiliary industrial products for folk cakes (raw materials - baking tools); Organize booths to introduce and promote local products and the Southern folk cake contest of the provinces, cities and city districts participating in the Festival…
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