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Diverse tours offered during Tet holidays

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Travel companies in Ho Chi Minh City are positive about strong travel demand during the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) as both domestic and outbound tours are mostly booked fully.

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Tourists enjoy a bike tour exploring Hanoi’s Old Quarter. (Photo hanoimoi.com.vn)

HCM City – Travel companies in Ho Chi Minh
City are positive about strong travel demand during the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) as
both domestic and outbound tours are mostly booked fully.

Tour operators like Saigontourist, Vietravel, and TSTTourist
on December 26 reported that their tours departing from Ho Chi Minh City to the
southern provinces of Binh Duong, Long An, and Tien Giang are booked fully.

According to a representative from Saigontourist, this Lunar
New Year holidays, it offers more than 300 package tours, both domestic
and overseas tours, to serve more than 20,000 travellers through the holiday.

Besides popular tours to Phu Quoc, Nha Trang, and northern
provinces, overseas tours are also welcomed. The company this year also offers
tours to South American countries.

Tran Phuong Linh, Marketing Director of BenThanh Tourist, said that the travel company prepares over 100 tours for the Tet holidays and
expects to attract about 10,000 travellers. Until now, 90% of its tours are full, she said.

Meanwhile, travel companies in the central province of Thua
Thien-Hue offer programmes that take advantage of the spring festival “Spring
in Ancient Capital” taking place from January to March 2023.

Other travel companies have designed new tours based on the
meeting of the royal Lunar New Year Celebration and general celebration which
is said to create typical characteristics of the Tet celebration of Hue people.

According to Thua Thien-Hue province’s Tourism Promotion
Centre, the provincial Department of Tourism and the provincial Tourism Association develop new
services to attract visitors to Hue during the Tet holidays besides traditional
attractions like the royal festival or folk festivals.

In the central city of Da Nang, when designing tours, travel companies this year pay more attention to factors that offer tourists
opportunities to experience warm family gatherings.

They also have tours designated for Chinese-origin people
living in Malaysia or Singapore to visit Da Nang city.

Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Chairman of the municipal Travel Association, said that the
number of visitors to Da Nang city from December 2022 to January 2023 is forecast to increase by 30%-40% compared with other months in 2022./.  

Source: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/diverse-tours-offered-during-tet-holidays/246187.vnp

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Red Mustard Chicken Ramen

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March 30, 2023

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Executive Chef Nguyễn Văn Nguyên of Crowne Plaza Vĩnh Yên City Centre

Shoyu ramen is the most common noodle soup, with a broth made of soy sauce, in Japan. There are different versions of shoyu ramen: it can be cooked with either pork or chicken, garnished with different toppings, and served with different condiments. Today, let’s give it a try with the signature red mustard chicken ramen by Executive Chef Nguyễn Văn Nguyên of Crowne Plaza Vĩnh Yên City Centre. Travel to Japan through your own kitchen with this easy-to-follow recipe.

Ingredients: serving 1 person

  • Ramen noodle (instant ramen noodle is OK): 150g
  • Chicken (boneless): 200g
  • Chicken stock: 300ml
  • Red mustard: 50g
  • Chicken egg: 1
  • Nori: 30g
  • Beansprout: 30g
  • Bok choy: 50g
  • Japanese soy sauce: 20ml
  • Mirin (Japanese cooking rice wine): 20ml
  • Salt: 5g
  • Sugar: 5g
  • Minced pepper: 5g
  • Cooking oil: 10ml
  • Spring onion: 10g
  • Paprika powder: 3g
  • Ginger: 5g
  • Garlic: 5g

Tool:

  • Cooking twine

Red Mustard Chicken Ramen

 Method:

Chicken:

  • Marinate boneless chicken with pepper, salt, paprika powder, red mustard and chopped ginger. Roll the chicken, tighten it with cooking twine and pan-sear at 150 Celsius degrees until light brown.
  • Put the pan-seared chicken in a pot with 300ml of chicken stock and 3ml of Japanese soy sauce and 3ml of mirin. Braise for 20 minutes.
  • Remove the braised chicken from the pot. Remove the cooking twine. Slide the chicken roll into 1cm-thick pieces.

Egg:

  • Boil the egg for 5 minutes.
  • Remove the egg from the boiling pot. Immediately put the egg in a bowl of iced water to prevent the heat from completely boiling the egg. Remove the eggshell when it’s cooled down.
  • Boil a mixture of Japanese soy sauce, mirin, chopped spring onion, chopped garlic, chopped ginger and sugar. Turn off the heat, let it cool down and pour it over the egg. Let the egg soak in the mixture for 3-5 hours or overnight in a fridge.
  • When used, cut into halves.

Noodle & bean sprouts:

  • Boil the noodle and bok choy with the chicken stock for a few minutes. When removing the noodle and bok choy from the boiling pot, ensure the noodle is still stretchy, and the boy choy is still crunchy and green.
  • Poach the bean sprouts. Remove them from the pot and let them dry.

Presentation:

  • Put the noodle into a big bowl. Top up with the sliced chicken on one side and the bok choy on the other side. Top up with the two halves of egg, poached beansprouts, chopped spring onion and nori.
  •  Pour the chicken stock into the bowl.

Sensory evaluation:

  • Chicken: tender
  • Presentation: colourful and beautiful

You can enjoy this Japanese iconic chicken ramen and many other savoury dishes by chef Nguyên and his talented team at HOP Kitchen restaurant, located on the 4th floor of Crowne Plaza Vĩinh Yên City Centre, 396 Mê Linh Road, Liên Bảo Ward, Vĩnh Yên City, Vĩnh Phúc Province. Tel: (84) 2113 778899.

Source: http://ovietnam.vn/dining/red-mustard-chicken-ramen_342514.html

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Vietnam, India boost tourism cooperation

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March 29, 2023

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More than 20 Indian travel agencies together with media representatives recently conducted a field trip to the central Vietnamese cities of Da Nang, Hoi An, and Hue. The trip was part of the Indian tourism sector’s Famtrip programme, aimed at introducing Vietnam to Indian travellers.

The delegation visited famous tourist destinations in the three destinations and assessed the quality of local hotels and restaurants, especially those catering to Indian customers.

Figures show that the number of Indian tourists visiting Vietnam reached nearly 138,000 in 2022, ranking it 9th among the 10 largest source markets.

The field trip will help boost the number of Indian visitors to Vietnam this year, which is forecast to increase by 160% compared to 2019.

India is one of two countries in the world with a population in excess of 1 billion, together with China, and is a source market of potential for any country, including Vietnam./.

Source: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-india-boost-tourism-cooperation/250283.vnp

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Measures to lure more high-spending international tourists under discussion

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March 29, 2023

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Vietnam needs to have support policies for developing new tourism products and services capable of attracting high-spending international visitors, said insiders.

Measures to lure more high-spending international tourists under discussion hinh anh 1Foreign visitors in Da Nang (Photo: Da Nang Newspaper)

Hanoi – Vietnam needs to have support
policies for developing new tourism products and services capable of attracting high-spending international visitors, said insiders.

Addressing a national conference on
tourism development in 2023 recently, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Nguyen Van Hung admitted that Vietnam’s tourism products have yet to
catch up with global trends and failed to fully utilise the natural advantages, especially
cultural resources.

“We only offer what we have, not what visitors want, so our products
lack attractiveness for tourists,” he said.

He added that tourism linkage among regions, localities, and sectors remain weak, resulting in tourism products not diverse and attractive to tourists.

According to Chairman of the Vietnam Tourism Association Vu The Binh, it is necessary to develop attractive
and high-spending products like golf tourism.

The number of international visitors travelling to Vietnam for golf tours is on the rise,
he said, calling for exemption or
reduction of excise tax for international golf tourists in order to
increase the competitiveness of this tourism service.

Meanwhile, Deputy General Director of Saigontourist Vo Anh Tai said attention
should be paid to cruise ship tourism, noting that his firm welcomed eight international
cruise ships with over 23,000 visitors in March only.

The company aims to serve 170,000 international
holiday-makers arriving on 30 cruise ships in 2023, he said.

Tai also proposed policies to attract foreign tourists attending diplomatic
events; trade, and investment promotion programmes; fairs and exhibitions; and international
sports and culture events.

President of the Imex Pan Pacific Group (IPPG) Johnathan Hanh Nguyen suggested
developing a number of potential tourism models such as health-care
tourism and duty-free outlets, saying that these generate high revenues and
help increase competitiveness of Vietnam’s tourism in the region.

He
also proposed cooperation with international partners to develop entertainment,
resort, and casino complexes; and amusement parks whose brand is recognised
worldwide.

Speaking at a seminar held by Sai Gon Giai phong newspaper, Dang Manh Phuoc,
CEO of The Outbox Company – a market researcher and data analyst on tourism and
hotel, stressed the importance of research in consumer behaviour
and demand in target markets, so as to build
appropriate promotion strategies.

Tai also urged Vietnam’s
representative agencies abroad to play a greater role in promoting the national tourism brand to
international visitors./. 

Source: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/measures-to-lure-more-highspending-international-tourists-under-discussion/250264.vnp

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