Wishing you a Russian Christmas at Tan Cang

The riverside Tan Cang Tourist Park will organize the Russian Food Festival for Christmas from 5:30 p.m to 9:30 p.m, December 24 to 26.

Around 60 Russian dishes many of them grilled will be served with Russian Fifth Ocean beer, at the park that is next to Saigon Bridge in Binh Thanh District.

Chiem Thanh Long, director of Binh Quoi Tourist Village, which manages Tan Cang, told the Daily the tourist village has invited master Russian chef, Sarhat Nabioglu Khalivov to run the kitchen.

“He has been training our chefs for a month,” he said.

This is the first time that Binh Quoi Tourist Village has organized a foreign food festival instead of promoting local food and culture.

Long said the tourist village would hold the Russian Food Festival every year. “HCMC has many programs to promote European and Chinese gastronomy so we want to bring a new food culture of Russia to Saigonese,” he said.

A ticket costs VND450,000 per adult, VND200,000 per child. Contact Tan Cang at A100, Ung Van Khiem Street, Binh Thanh District. Tel: 08 899 1120.

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Xmas and New Year at Continental Saigon and Tan Cang

Guests eat Russian food at Tan Cang Tourist Area in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District - Photo: Courtesy of Saigontourist

The Continental Saigon Hotel will start the Christmas celebrations at 10:30pm on December 24. Guests will be welcomed in the lobby with Xmas carols played on piano and violin and a selection of cocktails and champagne before enjoying the main party with many traditional Christmas dishes and fresh seafood.

The Jazz All Stars and singers Yoso, Khac Dung and Ngoc Lan will supply the live music performing Vietnamese and international Christmas songs. The entertainment also includes a Cinderella drama, saxophone solo show, comedy and dance shows with Santa Claus and the snow princesses.

Tickets are priced at VND890,000 per adult and VND490,000 per child, inclusive of wine, beer and soft drinks with a buy 10 tickets get one free special.

For New Year’s Eve, the hotel will host a gala dinner in the garden area with fireworks and balloons to welcome the New Year. Enjoy the delicious Western style food along with the music, a dance show, jugglers, comedy acts and lucky draw.

Tickets are priced at VND990,000 per adult and VND590,000 per child, inclusive of drinks. Guests who buy 10 tickets before December 15 will get one free.

At Tan Cang Tourist Area, the “Christmas party with Russian food” event will start from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on December 24, 25 and 26. Revelers can discover Russian culture through accordion performances and Russian music and dances. A flamenco band will also play.

It will be like a night in Moscow with the garden area decorated with Matroska dolls and Christmas trees and staff dressed in Russian costumes. Food will be prepared by Russian chefs along with many Vietnamese dishes.

Tickets are priced at VND450,000 per adult and VND200,000 per child, inclusive of draught beer Fifth Ocean.

The Continental Hotel Saigon is at 132-134 Dong Khoi Street in HCMC’s District 1, tel: 3829 9201.

Tan Cang Tourist Area is at A100 Ung Van Khiem Street, Binh Thanh District, HCMC, tel: 3512 8775.

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Terraced rice fields- a photographer’s dream

It is easy to see why Che Cu Nha is recognized as a national landscape

The first two weeks of October are harvest time for farmers in Mu Cang Chai District, an area famous for terraced mountainsides. The three communes of Che Cu Nha, La Pan Tan, and De Xu Phinh in the district have been recognized as national sight-seeing sites because of the picturesque rice farms. This time of year the scenery has tourists begging drivers to stop for a photo because of the glowing yellow of the ripe rice on the hillsides. In Mu Cang Chai you can admire these landscapes from just about anywhere on the road

Mu Cang Chai District is in Yen Bai Province about 300 kilometers northwest of Hanoi. Take National Highway 32, to Khao Pha Mountain which is the gateway to Mu Cang Chai District. From there the terraced fields stretch seemingly forever. To sleep, travel 50 more kilometers to Mu Cang Chai Village, where you can rent a hotel room for the night. There are many scenic lookouts along the way.

A cottage house, where local ethnic people dry corn for pig food, amidst the immense rice terraced field

You can see a lot of ethnic people walking or standing along the road

This colorfully dressed ethnic girl looks from her house at the rice paddies

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