Can Tho City hosts Southern Folk Cake Festival
(VOV) - Can Tho City held its fourth traditional rice, vegetable and fruit cake festival on April 27-May 1, attracting more than 70,000 visitors and participants from Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The organisers of the festival wanted to attract more international visitors to the city this year, which they describe as ‘the spiritual home of traditional Vietnamese baking’.
The five-day event was rounded off with international baking exchanges and a wide variety of artistic cultural exchanges featuring ethnic groups in Southern Vietnam such as the Kinh, Cham, Chinese and Khmer.
All told the festival showcased more than 100 kinds of cakes and 50 local specialties in roughly 100 booths along with a diverse number of other activities including photo exhibitions, folk games and art performances.