Northwestern food served during culture festival in Sapa

Thứ Hai, 30/07/2018, 20:39

Cultural activities and hundreds of traditional dishes of local ethnic minorites are available at the Northwestern Food and Culture Festival is taking place from July 22 to August 12 at the Sun World Fansipan Legend tourist site in Sapa.

From July 22 to August 12, Northwestern Cultural Space and Culinary Festival is being organized by Sunworld Fansipan Legend in Sapa, Lao Cai Province with vibrant festival atmosphere. The event draws the attendance of thousands of visitors, according to Vietnamtourism.gov.vn.

In the food court, the booths display hundreds of typical dishes such as thang co (a dish made from horse meat and its organs), lap xuong (a kind of local sausage), smoked buffalo meat, sticky rice, grilled fish... Other favorite gifts for sale includes forest shoots, medicinal wine, brocade waving products...

Hundreds of traditional dishes of ethnic people in the northwestern localities are being served at the event. Visitors could experience local cultures while participating in the cooking process.

Coming to the festival, visitors have a chance to observe the typical highland wine production from selection of raw materials, cooking glaze, wine brewing and traditional wine making.

In the sunny weather at the top of Fansipan Mountain, visitors enjoy unforgettable experience with the freshly baking spring fish, corn wine and vibrant summer feeling.

After enjoying the specialties, visitors can join the Northwestern cultural space with sap dances, traditional folk games, shows of making banh chung (square glutinous rice cake), banh day (round glutinous rice cake). In particular, on Saturday and Sunday, visitors can witness a traditional wedding of the Dao ethnic people.

This is the second time Northwestern Cultural Space and Culinary Festival was held in order to honor traditional cultural values and create a unique attraction for visitors in summer.

Some 1.9 km southwest of famous Sapa, Sun World Fansipan Legend is a resort complex consisting of tourism programs, cultural works, cable cars, entertainment services, and high-quality hotels.

Its highlight is the cable car to the “Roof of Indochina”, Mt. Fansipan. At 6292.5 meters long and a height difference of 1,410 meters between its lower and upper stations, it holds the world record for the longest non-stop three-rope cable car and the greatest elevation difference by a non-stop three-rope cable car.

By Phung Nguyen