A confectionary festival organized by the HCMC Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will take place from Friday until Monday at September 23 Park in District 1.
The festival will have traditional candies and cakes with a chocolate city and ice-cream city, among other delightful treats. From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday there will be a fruit carving event and a display of traditional wedding fruit trays of the nation's northern, central and southern regions.
From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, there's a contest to make phuc linh cake and wrap coconut covers for phu the cake for children from pre-school to elementary level. Other activities include flash mob, bartender performances and instructions on how to make banh tet (glutinous rice cake with green bean and pork stuffings) and banana sweets.
A cake making contest for secondary students and a ceremony to set the Vietnamese Record for the most child chefs will take place on Sunday. At night there will be a music performance and instructions on making jam and banh it (three-cornered patty).
The last day will feature cooking performances for Tet (Lunar New Year) cakes and a music and fashion show.