The Festival will include 26 food booths and one special mobile food booth at the lush grounds of Hanoi’s National Library. The Embassies of Spain and Italy will have their own food booths and will offer specific delicacies from their respective countries.

Chefs from different hotels and restaurants will present their takes on classic and new European dishes and major brands will offer a selection of their produce for the enjoyment of the visitors. On this day, EuroCham invites the public of Hanoi to take part in the festival of European cuisine and culture in the year that the two sides celebrate 25 years of diplomatic relations.

The festival promises the visitors a great cultural journey through the Northern, Central and Mediterranean cuisines of Europe, with a selection of some of the wonderful dishes that have made the region world famous.

For the small visitors there will be various children’s activities, including a giant bouncing castle, creative and sportive games, and exciting scientific experiments using food.

As a new and exciting feature this year visitors, in exchange for their tickets, will receive a passport filled with vouchers for all kinds of food and drinks. The passport is also part of a fun game together with Vietnam Airlines.

The European Food Festival is one of the main festivals to celebrate Europe’s rich and perse culinary heritage and to promote European brands of food and drink to a public audience in Vietnam. The last edition lured more than 1,100 participants./.

( VNF )