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Vietnam has planned to develop culinary tourism into a national strategic product, contributing to improving the competitiveness and brand of Vietnam's tourism.   Foreign tourists enjoy Vietnamese food (Photo: vneconomy.vn) Vietnam has planned to develop culinary tourism into a national strategic product, contributing to improving the competitiveness and brand of Vietnam's tourism. Vietnamese food has proven attractive, being loved and honoured by international tourists. The Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT) mentioned strategic cooperation to promote tourism, cuisine and culture of Vietnam to the world through the project "embellishing myriad raw materials and cooking millions of Vietnamese dishes”, which aims to honour diverse cuisine and culture values of the country. The project focuses on applying information technology so that localities can put typical culinary products on the same national register, thereby building a digital map of Vietnamese cuisine, and local culinary communities in provinces and cities across the country.   The new policy on visas, and entry and exit will officially take effect from August 15. (Photo: VNA) The International Food Festival - Quang Nam 2023 is scheduled to take place from August 31 – September 3 in the central province of Quang Nam. The event is expected to contribute to honouring, preserving, promoting and effectively exploiting the cultural value, cuisine and tourism. The event will feature 26 traditional dishes of Quang Nam. The organisation board will announce a decision to include the handmade Quang noodle-making industry on the list of national intangible culture heritage. Many localities across the country are actively organising attractive tourism activities to attract domestic and foreign tourists during the summer. The first Ho Chi Minh City river festival, the Hue Festival 2023 – Autumn Festival will be held in August with a wide range of activities to lure both local and foreign visitors. Guidelines and policies on tourism have been popularised on the websites https://vietnamtourism.gov.vn, https://vietnam.travel and social networking sites of VNAT, highlighting that the new policy on visas, and entry and exit will officially take effect from August 15. Experts said that the new policy will help improve the competitiveness of Vietnam’s tourism in attracting foreign tourism arrivals in the coming time./.

Hai Phong City Journalists Association and the Hai Phong Tourism Association launched a press contest on Hai Phong tourism on May 26. Cat Ba’s beaches (in Hai Phong) always attract domestic and foreign tourists. This is also a practical activity to celebrate the 68th anniversary of Hai Phong City's Liberation Day, major holidays in May, and the 98th anniversary of the Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21, 1925 - June 21, 2023). At the same time, the contest also aims to strengthen coordination and cooperation with the central press agencies and Hai Phong City in propagating and promoting images about the potential and strengths of Vietnamese tourism in general, particularly Hai Phong tourism. Entries should reflect outstanding achievements and contributions of the Hai Phong tourism industry, especially tourism businesses, in the process of socio-economic development of Hai Phong City, especially efforts in recovering and developing again after the COVID-19 pandemic.

With its creamy coconut milk and delightful sweetness, this drink captures the taste buds from the very first sip. A cup of coconut dessert drink includes coconut milk, grated coconut flesh, coconut jelly, milk, condensed milk, and homemade tapioca pearls. The milk, made from young coconut flesh, is sweet, aromatic, and has a smoother texture than that of ripened coconuts. To prepare the coconut milk, the cook grinds the young coconut flesh, filters and cooks it for four hours while stirring continuously. Some of the grated coconut meat is shredded into pieces. Coconut jelly, made from coconut water, is sliced into small pieces. The tapioca pearls in the coconut dessert drink are ivory white, slightly yellowish, and bigger than the tip of a pencil. When you savor a cup of coconut dessert drink, a simple scoop is all it takes to enjoy a spoonful of toppings. The toppings include crunchy pieces of coconut meat, soft pearls, as well as smooth and translucent coconut jelly. These toppings are accompanied by a thick layer of rich, creamy coconut milk that is both fragrant and oily, resulting in a delightful sweetness. A cup of grated coconut costs VND20,000 (84 US cents).

The Memorial House Relic of Leader Nguyen Duc Canh is located in An Duong District, Hai Phong. The Memorial House is the place where people of the port city and the whole country memorize the leader who sacrificed his life for the revolutionary cause of the nation.   Overall of the Memorial House (Photo: Collected) Comrade Nguyen Duc Canh was born on February 02nd 1908. He was one of excellent leaders of the (Viet Nam) Communist Party, one outstanding child of the nation. He made positive contributions to establishing the Communist Party, giving birth of General Assembly of Tonkin and Youth Union of Viet Nam Communist Party. He was also the founder and the first Secretary of Hai Phong Indochinese Communist Party Committee and Hong Gai Mine. He was the founder of Labor Newspaper in the year of 1929, too.   The place of worship to Leader Nguyen Duc Canh(Photo: Collected)   Tomb of Leader Nguyen Duc Canh (Photo: Collected) To remember the great contribution of Comrade Nguyen Duc Canh, the Hai Phong City Party Committee collaborated with his family to search for his remains, and then built the Memorial House of Leader Nguyen Duc Canh. The Memorial House of Leader Nguyen Duc Canh was inaugurated in the early year of 2019, and has become one spot of spiritual tourism, education on traditional history that has attracted thousands of tourists. In general, the Memorial House was designed as a mixture of traditional and modern styles that expresses ancient and elegant features. The main gate was built in a style of four pillars, on the left and right sides are two rows of houses displaying pictures and memorabilia about the life and career of comrade Nguyen Duc Canh. The main temple consists of two compartments: the forecourt and harem are the places where tourists come to pay their respects to the great merits of the Leader. The statue of Leader Nguyen Duc Canh is worshipped with a solemn relaxing sitting posture holding a book in the right hand, inside the harem. It can be said that the Memorial House of Leader Nguyen Duc Canh not only performs the responsibility of gratitude and remembrance to the Leader but also attracts many classes of people to visit.

Hai Phong is the Port City that prides itself on being the land of geniuses. A pride to mention is that the city was honored to welcome President Ho Chi Minh to visit the city nine times. Each time Uncle Ho travelled to the city, He left stories with profound lessons that were indelible in the minds of generations of Hai Phong City’s people. In the memoir “Unforgettable Days”, General Vo Nguyen Giap said: “at 16:00 on October 20th 1946, the battleship named Dumont d’Urville took President Ho Chi Minh and members of the delegation to Ngu ferry station. A red flag carrying a golden five-petal star was fluttering on a towering mast. The battleship rang such a long whistle. Never before had there been such a whistling that touched the hearts of tens of thousands of people like that afternoon…”   In 1946: From France, President Ho Chi Minh returned home at Hai Phong Port As told by General Vo Nguyen Giap, Hai Phong welcomed Uncle Ho very considerately, the whole armed forces formed a fence standing along the roads where Uncle Ho passed by. At 17:00, Uncle Ho passed the pier, military music performed the national anthem, the honor guard of National Guard corps dignified under the golden-star red flag. Familiar figure of Uncle Ho appeared with white khaki clothes, then the chant “Long live President Ho” immediately resounded. On the way Uncle Ho got in the car toward the headquarter of the City Administrative Committee, the cheers rose like thunder and many people shed tears when they saw Uncle Ho. Visiting Hai Phong for the first time, Uncle Ho expressed his confidence in officials, soldiers, employees and people of Hai Phong City: “Thanks to the elders who set examples, brothers and sisters working together, then surely Hai Phong will become an exemplary city of our country”. Also, during the visit, President Ho Chi Minh met again Mr. Thuyet – a sailor who hid Uncle Ho in a ship to France, and lived with  Uncle Ho in a photo shop in Paris. Since that day, Hai Phong had the honor to welcome Uncle Ho 08 more times to visit the City. Each visit of Uncle was an imprint, but the first imprint was still the strongest. Hai Phong Port was not only the first place Uncle Ho visited upon his arrival in Hai Phong, but also the place honorably welcoming Uncle Ho two more times out of total  09 visits to the Port City.   In 1957: The second time Uncle Ho visited Hai Phong Port On May 30th 1957, in the context of 02 years after Hai Phong City was liberated, Uncle Ho visited some important economic bases of the city, among which was Hai Phong Port. That was also the time Vietnamese navigators led two French ships going into the pier, Hai Phong Port was marked as the port of Democratic Republic of Viet Nam on an international maritime map. Uncle Ho left valuable advice to officers and workers of Hai Phong Port. On the second time visiting Hai Phong Port, what did Uncle Ho told the officers and workers of Hai Phong Port that would become the guideline for the Port on the journey “reaching to the great sea”? After visiting and learning about the life and working situation of the workers, Uncle Ho advised: “Each worker needs to be united wholeheartedly and must uphold the spirit of mastery striving to build the Port”. Uncle Ho pointed out that workers are in contact with many people from around the world, hence, they needed to uphold the international spirit of proletarians and constantly study and improve their qualifications in all aspects to be worthy of being the working class and revolutionary leadership class. On the relation between individuals and the Nation, Uncle Ho said: “Solidarity is the power, water rises then the ship floats. All uncles, brothers and sisters here are in the same boat on the same wave, therefore you all need to be united together. Individual growth needs to be attached with national interests and working class’s ones. Who wants to seek for his or her own growth separately, then that means he or she separates himself or herself from the ship on the sea, hence he or she does not grow.” On January 10th 1960, Hai Phong Port once again busily welcomed Uncle Ho in the event of welcoming at the Hai Phong Port the first delegation of oversea Vietnamese returning from Thailand. Since then, taking to heart Uncle Ho’s advice, generations of the Port’s officers and workers have constantly strived and worked hard to make Hai Phong Port become one of the leading symbols of the City in terms of politics, economy and transportation. Status of Hai Phong Port on the international maritime map has been solid and stronger, becoming one of the most 50 ports working effectively across the world, being the biggest port in the Northern area of Viet Nam, the second biggest port in the whole Viet Nam.   President Ho Chi Minh onboard An Phu Ship offering flowers to overseas Vietnamese community Stretching through three districts including Hong Bang, Ngo Quyen and Hai An, Hai Phong Port has been not only significant in terms of historical, economic and political terms but also a symbolic pride in the mind and heart of each person born in the Port City when mentioning their hometown. During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh once glorified the fighting spirit and extolled the armed forces and people of Hai Phong with a flag embroidered with two words titled “Loyalty and Braveness”. Of the places where He landed his foot on, beside Hai Phong Port, there are other city’s present landmarks such as Hai Phong Cement Plant, Duyen Hai Mechanic Plant, Viet – Tiep Friendship Hospital, all of them have fostered the spirit of “Loyalty and Braveness” that has contributed to common development of Hai Phong City, and has been worthy of the love given by the Father of the Nation.  

The land of Thuy Nguyen has existed since ancient times, the former name was Giang Nam Trieu, then Thuy Duong. This is also the place to witness many historical battles of our national independence.   The photo of the pile yards of Bach Dang Giang battlefield (Photo: Collection)  In particular, it must mention the resounding battles on Bach Dang River - where our ancestors made glorious victories. Historically, the Vietnamese army and people won the battles on Bach Dang River thanks to a unique weapon as wooden piles placed in the river.   Cao Quy pile yard conservation area (Photo: Collection) Beside the pile yard of Bach Dang Giang battlefield, it is worth mentioning Cao Quy pile yard. Cao Quy pile yard conservation area has an area of more than 30,600m2, located on Cao Quy field in the historical-cultural relic complex of Lien Khe Commune connected to Bach Dang Giang relic site. In that area, there are 18 wooden piles preserved in the lake with pebble embankment and waterproof treatment.   Dam Thuong pile yard (Photo: Collection) After that, the archaeologists continuously expanded the excavation scale and discovered more pile yards in Dam Thuong area. Located on the banks of Da Bac River, Dam Thuong pile yard is in Lai Xuan Commune, Thuy Nguyen District, and about 10km far from Cao Quy pile yard. Most of the piles found in that area had natural shapes and were planted vertically into the mud on a very wide range, with alternate large and small piles; Some piles still have traces of wooden knots, bent ones, and rough mortise at the bottom. When standing on the port land, we think about the will of Vietnam. When the invaders come, the women also fight. Because this land has sovereignty for thousands of years, I feel my heart overflowing with pride for the nation, for the fatherland, and for the historical memories of the 3rd great victory of Bach Dang in 1288.