Press conference to announce information about the new Pho Festival 2024 taking place in Hanoi . Accordingly, the event aims to honor the traditional pho profession; at the same time, it is an opportunity for visitors and locals to learn and enjoy the taste of pho associated with regional culture.
According to Ms. Le Thi Thiet, President of Nam Dinh Culinary Culture Association, Pho Festival 2024 will officially take place for 3 days, from March 15-17, in Nam Dinh city (Nam Dinh province).
The series of activities at the festival aim to elevate Vietnamese cuisine, making Pho a national brand, associated with the development of domestic and international tourism. In particular, through the festival, the Organizing Committee hopes to move towards preparing a dossier to submit to UNESCO to make Vietnamese Pho a world cultural heritage.
Mr. Do Quang Trung, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Nam Dinh province, said that in 2023, the Department, together with relevant units, coordinated with a number of provinces and cities to build a dossier for the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to recognize pho as a national intangible cultural heritage, moving towards making Vietnam's pho a world cultural heritage.
The Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Nam Dinh province added that, in addition to directly introducing the flavor of Vietnamese pho, the Pho Festival also organizes many activities such as: Collecting images "Honoring Vietnamese Pho", roadshow Pho Festival 2024; Vietnamese Pho Road; activities to set a record for the giant pho pot; discussion on the development of the pho profession from the past to the future; space to display pho culture... thereby bringing Vietnamese pho to the world, honoring the pho making profession, towards the world's intangible cultural heritage.
At the press conference, artist Le Thiet Cuong suggested that the Organizing Committee should consider setting a record for a giant pho pot. He said he is "very allergic to big records".
"The best nature of Vietnamese people, from the clay figurines, stone dogs, pagodas and temples, all like small things. The mindset of Vietnamese people from Dong Son to Ly, Tran, Le, Mac... all like something small and pretty. Not everything that is big is good. We have to be confident in the quality of a bowl of pho, its beauty, the national spirit to make the big thing in quotation marks, not literally big", artist Le Thiet Cuong expressed.
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