Dishes displayed at the 2018 exhibition on 100 Hue dishes at the 10^th Hue Festival

The project aims to preserve and promote Hue culinary quintessence, build the brand name “Hue – The capital of Vietnamese cuisine” and raise the image of Hue cuisine in the area and all over the world, actively contributing to the tourism and socio-economic development of the province.

The specific missions and implementing solutions include: building and managing the brand names of Hue specialities; constructing a Hue cuisine identification program which is in accordance with different forms of advertising; setting up an identification program for restaurants and diners meeting the standards of serving tourists in Hue.

Guiding tourists to cook Hue dishes in Thuy Bieu, Hue city

With regard to implementing solutions, the project gathers people who are conscientious, skilled, knowledgeable and supported by policies to restore the quality of dishes considered Hue culinary cultural heritage. Furthermore, it holds Hue cuisine festivals, meetings, workshops, training programs, best cooking contests and Hue delicacies cooking contests.

In addition, the project sets up many tours to enjoy Hue dishes such as: street food, lagoon food, Banh Hue (a wide range of sweet treats and savory snacks), Che Hue (Hue sweet dessert soups), Hue imperial and folk dishes, vegetarian food, discovering Hue cuisine: clean raw materials, the cooking art of Hue people, experiencing Hue market-shopping and Hue cooking style, etc.

The total expense for three years (2018 – 2020) is about VND 12.4 billion; in which, the budget is over VND 3.7 billion and the socialization source is over VND 8.7 billion.

Story and photos: Thai Binh

• “Herb” – fine arts exhibition to celebrate Vietnamese Women’s Day (20/10)
• Approving the project “Completing e-government of Thua Thien Hue province in 2018 – 2020 period” (18/10)
• Famous German band to perform in Hue (16/10)
• Assessing the status and build of a database on biological resources in Thua Thien Hue province (14/10)
• Loc Vinh fisherman catches strange fish assumed Otolithoides biauritus (11/10)
• 61 topics participate in Thua Thien Hue Science Technology Creation Award (11/10)
• Digitalizing documents on managing files of people with meritorious services to the revolution (11/10)
• Annual talks about the work of collecting the remains of martyrs (10/10)