Opening the Countryside Gastronomy

At night of 10th November, on Hung Vuong Street, Thai Nguyen City, the Tea Festival’s Organization Board opened the Countryside Gastronomy.

 Attending were Mr. Dang Viet Thuan, Member of the Standing Committee of Provincial Party Committee, Vice-chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee, Head of the Tea Festival’s Organization Board and Representatives of  Cultural village of Viet Nam’s Ethnic Groups, Viet Nam Food Association, Viet Nam Bonsais Association, Viet Nam Association of Trade Villages.

There were more than 180 stalls, in which, there were 60 food shops of the provinces and cities, such as Ha Noi, Hue, Tay Ninh, Bac Giang, Lang Son, Thanh Hoa, Nam Dinh, Hai Duong and Thai Nguyen, etc. The market was divided into five areas. The Delta market was decorated with some big trees and the village hall; the girls wore the kerchiefs, the four-panel traditional dresses and worked as hawkers. There were many rural dishes sold at the rural market, such as rice pancakes, noodles with snails, grilled rice snack, and household commodities including the large flat winnowing baskets, baskets, shrimps, vegetables, fruits, etc. The remote area market sold the bamboo shoots; the forestal honey; brocade; wine of Mau Son, San Lung, Bac Ha, Ta Van, Ta Van; sweet short cakes of Cao Bang; roast duck; roast pig, etc. In Thai Nguyen market zone, there were many kinds of dried tea buds, lid eugenia tea, agarics, fresh fish, Bao Thai rice of Dinh Hoa, Viet Cuong vermicelli, Binh Long tofu of Vo Nhai, Nang cakes, pyramidal rice dumpling, fruits of Sim, Mua, Sung, Va, etc. The area of tea products were showed with the tea products processed by the popular method, the traditional method and the modern method. In the area traditional trade villages, goods of many famous trade villages in Viet Nam were sold, such as Hai Duong pottery, Nga Son sedge mat (Thanh Hoa), Cay cake (Nam Dinh)... There were also performances of Xam singing, dance of pan-pipe, Trau Van singing, the scholars who wrote Han ideogram, etc.