Eat less meat and seafood, and contribute to environmental protection.
This is a key message 🍷that the Green Food Fair 2012, to ༺be held in downtown HCM City fromSept. 11-14, seek🅠s to impart, particularly to the youth of Vietnam.
The four-day fair that focuses on health, environment and "expressing gratitude🌊 to Mother", ওwill be held at the city's Youth Cultural House.
Nguyen Van Nha, chairman of the Vietnam Hy Ma Lap Son Company Ltd., which is organising the event, said eating too much meat and seafood coᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuld cause many diseases while depleting scarce natural resources.
Livestock breeding is a significant generator of greenhouse gases, he said.
The fair, whic🎃h has 50 food stalls, ofꦆfers the opportunity for companies producing "green food" to promote their products, Nha said.
At least 120 dishes in Vietnamese,Asian an൩d European cuisine will be offe❀red at 30 stalls run byrestaurants, pagodas and vegetarian food processing companies in the city.
Since the fair targets the youth, 🐻the food o🃏ffered will mostly be fast food items, said Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan, general manager of the company.
She said the dishes would include banh bao (dumplinܫg), banh beo (bloating fern-shaped cake) and banh gio (pyramidal rice dumpling) from Vietnam , Italiꦿan pasta and pizza, Indian curry, Japanese sushi and Thailand rice vermicelli.
"Clean food" processing companies like Th🦄ao Dien Clean Vegetables,Song Xanh, Hoa Sua Rice an🉐d Ohsawa Chan Nguyen will also participate in the fair.
Several kinds of ꦅorganic rice cultivated without the use of chemical insectic🐲ides or herbicide will be displayed at the fair.
This kind of rice requires a long time and more care than normal to cultivate, so they cost two times as much as normal rice, Loaꦏn said.🅠
The f𒉰air will also ha✃ve other raw materials needed to cook vegetarian food and beverages.
Doctor Bui Viet Hoang will deliver a talk titled Eating V🐲egetarianꦦ Food, The Things You May Not Know at 3.30pm on the first day.
Ly Sanh, chairman of HCM City 's Chefs Association, will be the judge for the competition Cooking with Famous Pe☂ople that will be held at 2pm on the third day.
Besides the stalls, the fair ❀will host several performance activitiཧes.
Around 300 visitors are expected to join a candle 💝light vigil to express gratitude to mothers at𒅌 7.30pm on the third day.
The first two fairs in 2008 and 2010 at🦂tracted around 20,000 visitors each, Nha said.-😼VNA
This is a key message 🍷that the Green Food Fair 2012, to ༺be held in downtown HCM City fromSept. 11-14, seek🅠s to impart, particularly to the youth of Vietnam.
The four-day fair that focuses on health, environment and "expressing gratitude🌊 to Mother", ওwill be held at the city's Youth Cultural House.
Nguyen Van Nha, chairman of the Vietnam Hy Ma Lap Son Company Ltd., which is organising the event, said eating too much meat and seafood coᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuld cause many diseases while depleting scarce natural resources.
Livestock breeding is a significant generator of greenhouse gases, he said.
The fair, whic🎃h has 50 food stalls, ofꦆfers the opportunity for companies producing "green food" to promote their products, Nha said.
At least 120 dishes in Vietnamese,Asian an൩d European cuisine will be offe❀red at 30 stalls run byrestaurants, pagodas and vegetarian food processing companies in the city.
Since the fair targets the youth, 🐻the food o🃏ffered will mostly be fast food items, said Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan, general manager of the company.
She said the dishes would include banh bao (dumplinܫg), banh beo (bloating fern-shaped cake) and banh gio (pyramidal rice dumpling) from Vietnam , Italiꦿan pasta and pizza, Indian curry, Japanese sushi and Thailand rice vermicelli.
"Clean food" processing companies like Th🦄ao Dien Clean Vegetables,Song Xanh, Hoa Sua Rice an🉐d Ohsawa Chan Nguyen will also participate in the fair.
Several kinds of ꦅorganic rice cultivated without the use of chemical insectic🐲ides or herbicide will be displayed at the fair.
This kind of rice requires a long time and more care than normal to cultivate, so they cost two times as much as normal rice, Loaꦏn said.🅠
The f𒉰air will also ha✃ve other raw materials needed to cook vegetarian food and beverages.
Doctor Bui Viet Hoang will deliver a talk titled Eating V🐲egetarianꦦ Food, The Things You May Not Know at 3.30pm on the first day.
Ly Sanh, chairman of HCM City 's Chefs Association, will be the judge for the competition Cooking with Famous Pe☂ople that will be held at 2pm on the third day.
Besides the stalls, the fair ❀will host several performance activitiཧes.
Around 300 visitors are expected to join a candle 💝light vigil to express gratitude to mothers at𒅌 7.30pm on the third day.
The first two fairs in 2008 and 2010 at🦂tracted around 20,000 visitors each, Nha said.-😼VNA