Viet Nam street cuisine and Hoi An Full-moon Festival in top 25 amazing experiences of the world

The British magazine Rough Guides has recently listed top 25 amazing experiences of the world including Viet Nam street cuisine ranked 9th and Hoi An Full-moon Festival ranked 25th.
Street cuisine is a style of enjoying fast foods (hamburgers; bread with hot dog, pate; grilled meat; steamed sticky rice, boiled corn, sweet and sour salad, rice noodles, Quang noodles, lemonade, coffee…) in public places of cities such as: Hai Phong, Ha Noi, Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa Province), Ho Chi Minh City… Street cuisine is quickly processed and sold with suitable price. International visitors to Viet Nam are impressive with the image of street vendors selling all kinds of foods and drinks which featured Viet Nam cuisine flavor. The sellers invite buyers by their sweet voice or tape.
Located in the downstream junction of Thu Bon River, and belonged to coastal plain of Quang Nam Province, Hoi An used to be a bustling international trading port, where gathered many merchant ships from Japanese, Chinese and Western from 16th to 19th centuries. The foreign businessmen who settled in Hoi An contributed to creating a community with diversified cultural identity, typically the culture of using lanterns of Japanese and Chinese. It has become a special cultural feature of Hoi An.
Aiming to recreate the image of Hoi An Ancient Town, People’s Committee of Hoi An City allowed to organize Hoi An Full-moon Festival in the evening of the 1st and 14th days of every lunar month. Attending the program, visitors will be immersed in the life of Hoi An people through activities such as night market, bai choi singing, tuong singing, street music, flower lanterns in Hoai River… The special feature of the program is the ancient town space without electric light, sound of vehicles and electric appliances, but with the light from round or hexagonal lanterns of Chinese style or long lanterns of Japanese style hang under the eaves and the two sides of door.
Besides Viet Nam street cuisine and Hoi An Full-moon Festival, top 25 amazing experiences of the world include: see dawn break over Bagan (Myanmar), take a boat along the Ganges (India), rediscover Monument Valley (USA), marvel at otherworldly Cappadocia (Turkey), hike up to Machu Picchu (Peru), get up close with a mountain gorilla (Rwanda), explore one of Lake Garda’s prettiest spots (Italy), experience Puerto Rico’s oldest Carnaval (Puerto Rico), explore a jungle paradise (Guatemala), sample food from around the world at Borough Market (England), try the life aquatic in the Red Sea (Egypt), explore the ancient temples of Angkor (Cambodia), conquer the majestic Pamirs on foot (Tajikistan), ski from the sky in British Columbia (Canada), look down on Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), admire the Chinese fishing nets in Fort Cochin (India), go fishing on Alaska’s Naknek River (USA), listen to the sea Organ in Zadar (Croatia), feel insignificant at the Grand Canyon (USA), marvel at the Golden Rock at dusk (Myanmar), tantalize your taste buds in Marrakesh (Morocco), get a taste for the high life in Bangkok (Thailand), and admire the northern lights in Lapland (Sweden).
Pham Thanh.