A Japanese food festival where every table with a Vietnamese guest gets
free food opened in Ho Chi Minh City on September 11.
Organised by Japan ‘s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, the second Oishi Nippon Fair at the Tokyo Town
restaurant, 188 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street , District 3, is part of a
project to introduce Japanese cuisine culture to the world and follows
an earlier one in April.
Until September 17, Tokyo
Town will offer a menu with seven dishes – croquette, fried noodle
with seafood, udon salad, fermented vegetable mixture, bacon wrapped
asparagus and sausage, breaded butterfly shrimp with mayonnaise, and
fish pie with soy sauce – and three beverages.
At
weekend, food expert Nguyen Thi Dieu Thao will teach diners how to cook
traditional miso soup though with some changes to suit the Vietnamese
palate.
Japanese delicacies have also been on offer
at the 17th Vietfood Beverage until September 14 at the city’s Tan
Binh Exhibition and Convention Centre.
Yoshinori
Yakabe, the Japanese deputy consul in HCM City , said Japanese
restaurants used to mostly serve Japanese customers but now attract more
and more Vietnamese.
Japanese food has become a “trend”, he said.-VNA