Enhancing culinary tourism

Dat To possesses a treasure trove of priceless cultural heritage with ancient and profound communal houses, temples, and pagodas, including two representative intangible cultural heritages of humanity, the Worship of Hung Kings and Hat Singing. Xoan Phu Tho.

Doan Hung grapefruit is a famous specialty throughout the country.

Coming to Phu Tho, visitors can not only visit and admire the long-standing historical relics associated with the era when the Hung Kings built the country, but also enjoy the rich and attractive flavors of “origin land cuisine”. at the culinary streets of Tien Dung, Nguyen Du... of Viet Tri city with hundreds of large and small restaurants, unique and cozy spaces.

Many culinary and tourism service businesses have brought Dat To cuisine into restaurants, under the skillful and talented hands of chefs to create unique and attractive dishes that can only be enjoyed. Food in the land of three rivers brings a complete experience to visitors.

The richness and sophistication of Phu Tho cuisine is also shown through elaborately prepared dishes, suitable for each event and purpose. Many folk culture researchers have classified Dat To cuisine into three groups including: Dishes associated with festivals and spiritual culture; regional specialties and daily dishes of the people. Dishes associated with festivals and spirituality are often cakes made at the end of the year, village festivals or the Hung King’s Anniversary - Hung Temple Festival.

Specialties are often traditional dishes that have been passed down and preserved from generation to generation in a locality or region, not to be confused with anywhere else. Every time it is mentioned, people are amazed at the delicious taste and flavor. nationwide fame...

From the working life, typical dishes are deeply attached to the rustic meals of midland people such as: Pickled cassava vegetables cooked with shrimps, plump palm fruit in the middle of winter, fish braised with canarium. , fried banana, palm leaf rice balls... Every season has its own dish, each season has its own dish, never ending.

Mr. Dang Xuan Trung - a tourist from Hanoi shared: "Every time I come to Phu Tho, it gives me new experiences and especially Dat To cuisine leaves many unforgettable impressions. Using the “heirloom” cooking methods of the indigenous people, the dishes all have a very unique flavor that cannot be found anywhere else such as: Sour meat from bamboo tubes, chicken with many spurs, wild pigs, ducks and stream fish. grilled, cassava vegetable soup,...".

Cuisine and culture of the Muong people in Tan Son district are introduced in the Expanded Northwest Provinces Community Tourism Village Festival 2023.

Cuisine has made an important contribution in meeting the need to experience the culture, land and people of Dat To, creating attractiveness, positioning products, and improving destination competitiveness to attract tourists. . With pride in cuisine, Phu Tho has been developing and implementing the preservation of culinary cultural values associated with developing tourism back to its roots. At the same time, the province’s tourism industry also promotes propaganda and promotion of OCOP products, specialty dishes and research to enhance value and create rich product designs to bring Dat To cuisine to the public. domestic and foreign customers.

Many traditional specialties that meet OCOP product standards have appeared in domestic and foreign markets such as: Hung Lo rice noodles of Hung Lo Rice Noodles Cooperative, Viet Tri city; sour meat from Truong Foods Production and Trading Joint Stock Company; Natural bamboo shoots from Truong Dat Agricultural and Forestry Products Import-Export Company Limited, Ha Hoa district; Bang Luan grapefruit of the specialty grapefruit production and trading service cooperative of Bang Luan and Bang Luan communes; Suu Chi Dam grapefruit of Chi Dam grapefruit production and trading cooperative, Doan Hung district...

Accumulated from a long history, crystallized from legends and myths combined harmoniously with modern life, the quintessence of Dat To cuisine has been and will always be a unique heritage, the pride of the original land’s residents. attractive strengths, attracting tourists from all over.

Ninh Giang