A stall at the festival. (Photo: VNA) Paris (VNA) – A Vietnamese street food festival entitled “Ici Vietnam Festival” was held onJune 17 at Monge Square in District 5, Paris by the Vietnamese Association inFrance (UGVF) and the Vietnam Youth Association in France (UJVF).
This is the thirdyear the festival has been organised, offering visitors opportunities to taste popular Vietnamese dishes and fruits. This year, visitors can also enjoycontemporary music, with the excitement of electronic music, pop and rap,performed by French-Vietnamese DJ-beatmakers.
Visitors to the festival join a Vietnamese folk game. (Photo: VNA) They can also findbooks, meet with writers, and play Vietnamese folk games. On this occasion,Vinfast, a subsidiary carmaker of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, displayed its latest electric vehicles.
According toJérôme Tham Vo My, a member of the festival’s organising committee, in 2022,the one-day festival attracted nearly 10,000 visitors.
He hopes that with the participation of about 30businesses, this year's event would attract more visitors than last year.
Ngo Minh Duong, owner of Thanh Binh Jeunessupermarket chain, said that the products he brought here were all from Vietnam,such as sugarcane juice, coconut water, lychee, mango, coffee, and tea.
The company also cooperates with the Graine de riz -Grain de vie Association to raise funds for disadvantaged children and familiesin Vietnam and Laos.
Ici Vietnam Festival is the idea of a group ofyoung Vietnamese-French people who wish to organise festivals in variousfields of film, art, painting and cuisine to promote Vietnamese culture./.
