ASEAN food festival to be held in Yangon to mark Myanmar new year

www.chinaview.cn, 2009-03-20 11:52:07

YANGON, March 20 (Xinhua) -- An ASEAN food festival will be held in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon in late this month to mark the fall of the upcoming Myanmar traditional Thingyan water festival in mid-April, sources with a supermarket said here Friday.

The 15-day ASEAN food festival at the Capital Hypermarket, which is the first of its kind, will last from March 27 to April 10.

The food festival will introduce food of Myanmar and nine other member nations of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as other Asian countries and region such as China, Chinese Taipei, India, South Korea and Japan.

The festival will increase understanding on oriental traditions and culture, the sponsor said.

As for Myanmar food, according to restaurant businessmen in the country, foreign customers taking Myanmar traditional food registered the majority, accounting for 65 percent of the total visiting the country.

Foreign customers prefer Myanmar traditional cuisine as it is less expensive than Chinese and European food.

According to hotels and tourism statistics, there are restaurants in Myanmar offering, in addition to Myanmar traditional food, a variety of cuisine such as Chinese, Thai, European, French, Italian, Indian, Korean, Japanese and Singaporean.

Editor: Mo Hong'e