Up to 100 types of traditional cakes will be featured at 200 booths at the eighth Southern Traditional Cakes Festival in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho next month, heard a press conference in HCMC today, March 5.

Duong Hoang Trung, a cake maker, demonstrates how to make a traditional cake called banh tam

According to Vo Thi Thu Uyen from the Trade, Investment Promotion and Exhibition Center of Can Tho City, the festival will also showcase 100 specialties and cake ingredients of Can Tho and other cities and provinces from across the country.

The festival also attracts restaurants from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, France, Cambodia and India.

The festival will also feature an area for cake makers to demonstrate how to make kinds of cakes, a corner to introduce cakes made by Southern ethnic groups like Hoa, Cham and Khmer, a traditional cake making competition, a traditional cake buffet, and traditional sweet soup and beverages.

To ensure food safety, the organizers have set up a team responsible for checking the materials and keeping the samples of cakes sold at the festival.

The Southern Traditional Cakes Festival is an annual event aiming to preserve the traditional sweets of southern Vietnam and develop new markets for local sweet foods.

This year’s festival, with the theme “Taste of the Southern Region,” is jointly organized by the Trade, Investment Promotion and Exhibition Center of Can Tho City and the Can Tho Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The Saigon Times is the official media for the event.

Taking place at 108A Le Loi Street, Cai Khe Ward, Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City from April 12 to 16, the festival offers free entrance and expects to welcome 700,000 visitors.

SGT