The HCM City Culinary Culture Festival will take place from March 28 to 31 at Văn Thánh Tourist Park in HCM City. VNA Photo

The culinary event, organised by Saigontourist Group, is aimed at honouring Vietnamese cuisine.

The festival will be arranged into the North, Central, South regions, and feature over 40 culinary booths from units of Saigontourist Group, culinary brands from Bến Tre and Tây Ninh provinces, Việt Nam Airlines and Saigon Trading Corporation (Satra). The festival can serve over 12,000 customers.

Representatives of Tây Ninh will introduce local specialties, such as Tây Ninh veal and rice paper. Meanwhile, Bến Tre will bring delicious food made from coconut to the festival. Vietnam Airlines will also serve airline meals and Satra will serve quickly prepared dishes.

Skilled chefs and culinary artists will make specialties from cities and provinces across the country, offering visitors unique cuisine experiences.

A food map made from 400 typical dishes of localities will be introduced at the event as part of efforts to promote Vietnamese culinary excellence.

In particular, in order to serve the needs of entertainment and traditional cultural experiences for guests to enjoy, this year's festival will organise many special activities such as art performances, cultural exchanges, and folk games to re-enact the activities of traditional craft villages.

In addition, this year's festival will serve 'racket' coffee, a unique style of enjoying coffee of urban residents, organised by Bình Quới Tourist Village.

It will also arrange seven traditional craft villages to make vermicelli, traditional cakes, bamboo wickerwork, hats, sedge mats, and pottery. VNS