The festival attracted more than 600,000 visitors who were impressed by the folk cuisine of the Mekong delta with some 400 variations of Vietnamese traditional cakes made by the Kinh, Hoa, Khmer, and Cham in the region.
 Art performance at the 8th southern traditional cake festival in Can Tho. The festival features 220 booths introducing Vietnamese traditional cakes. |
Visitors also had chances to learn the southern cuisine and the skills of artisans from 13 provinces and cities nationwide who made 70 types of southern traditional cakes in a competition.
The event included a seminar to seek markets for southern traditional cakes, an art performance and a fashion show of Ao ba ba (traditional shirt of southern women).
Vice Chairman of the Can Tho People’s Committee Truong Quang Hoai Nam said the festival not only promoted signature cakes of the southern region and sought ways to preserve them, but also aimed to gradually build national brand names for southern traditional cakes.
 Two-color crispy rice cake. Banh nghe, a rice cake only found in Go Cong, Tien Giang province. Violet glutinous rice cake, a traditional dish of the Khmer in the Mekong delta. |
Bui That, a visitor from Long An province said his childhood memories came back vividly when seeing the cakes at the festival. “I have a chance to taste again many cakes I ate when being a little boy,” he said.
| The festival is an annual event of Can Tho to promote the land, people and culture of the southern region in general and Can Tho in particular. |
