According to the Consulate General of France in HCM City, the event was a unique opportunity to showcase the bakers’ creativity and passion for baking, while celebrating the friendship and fostering the close ties between the two countries.
The contest was open to everyone: professional bakers, students pursuing the profession of bread making, and amateurs. Contestants were scored based on the idea, presentation, and taste of the bread they made.
Chef Guillaume Gomez, personal representative of the President of the French Republic for gastronomy, presided over the jury with great distinction. His renowned expertise in the culinary arts made him the perfect choice to lead the jury and ensure a successful outcome.
The three winners of the contest will receive exclusive training in Singapore at Lesaffre’s state-of-the-art bakery center. This unparalleled opportunity will allow the winners to explore new techniques and refine their baking skills.
Hue-style Rice with Salt
People in the imperial capital of Hue are very good at cooking so they have many recipes to create unique and delicious dishes using salt with cereals, vegetables, meat and fish. One of these delicacies is rice served with salt. There are up to a dozen kinds of salt, such as muoi tieu (pepper salt), muoi vung (sesame salt), muoi sa (lemongrass salt), muoi rieng (galingale salt), muoi tom (shrimp salt) and muoi thit heo (pork salt). The dish is imbued with the culinary art of Hue and is a favourite of both the poor and the rich.
Memories of street calls
Large eye-catching panels, funny commercial son TV, colorful flyers and brochures are types of modern advertising you see every day. But people still reserve a special place in their hearts for one of the earliest forms of advertising: the distinctive call of the street vendor.
Try a meal in a frying pan in HCM City
Banh Mi Chao (bread with combo pan) and Bit Tet (Vietnamese style beef steak) served in frying pans are popular and easy to find in HCM City.
Vietnamese housewife creates “fever” among Facebook users with perfect dog-shaped mooncakes
Seeing that her daughter loves animals, Oanh made puppy-shaped moon cakes to surprise her on Mid-Autumn night. Her ‘puppy cakes’, however, were replicated so perfectly that her family didn’t dare to touch.
Com – the flavour of autumn
Autumn has arrived in Hanoi with gentle breezes tenderly penetrating street corners, replacing the summer heat and scattering bunches of yellow leaves on the pavements.
