Add this to your Ho Chi Minh City itinerary ASAP! From March 30 to April 2, the Banh Mi Festival has more than 120 stalls.
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Add this to your Vietnam travel itinerary – the world-renowned Vietnamese sandwich staple is the star of the upcoming first-ever Banh Mi Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from March 30th to April 2nd.
The event was announced at a press conference by co-organizers Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association and Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Office. International food database Taste Atlas also shared the news on March 16, highlighting the banh mi which was recently voted the fourth best sandwich in the world.
“While many people, especially in the Western world, associate the word ‘banh mi’ with a famous sandwich, in Vietnamese, ‘banh mi’ simply means bread,” writes Taste Atlas.
The Banh Mi Festival (or Bread Festival) will feature 120 stalls where restaurants, vendors, bakeries and other businesses from Vietnam and abroad will offer their own traditional sandwiches and other types of Vietnamese bread. There will also be a workshop on how the culinary staples came to be.
According to reports your three messagesNguyen Thi Khanh, president of Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association, said, “In addition to traditional types of banh mi, other types of breadsticks, baguettes and different styles of banh mi will be introduced during the festival, representing the richness of the dish.”
The large party will be held at the Youth Cultural Center, No. 04, Pham Ngoc Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Organizers are reportedly expecting more than 50,000 people to attend.
Banh mi is a baguette usually stuffed with various ingredients such as cold cuts, meat, fish, pickles, coriander, chilli, liver pate, French butter, mayonnaise, cucumber, oyster sauce, garlic, etc. Different regions of Vietnam have their own take on this tough and chewy sandwich.
Banh mi was ranked as the seventh best street food in the world by TasteAtlas and also listed as one of the top 50 best street food in Asia by CNN. – Rappler website
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