Obento, a restaurant in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 2 held an occasion named “Style of Vietnam” to introduce fashionable Vietnamese meals to native diners.
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Diners at Obento restaurant in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph by VNA |
In accordance with the restaurant proprietor Ling Chiu, the one-day occasion attracted so many dinners that each one tables from midday to 9 p.m. had been absolutely booked weeks in the past.
She stated that the thought of organizing such an occasion got here proper after her two-week journey to Vietnam in December 2023.
She stated she wished to arouse the reminiscence of consumers who had traveled Vietnam and tasted the road meals delights it has to supply, in addition to to carry Vietnamese delicacies to these searching for one thing completely different from the norms in South Africa.
Dinners on the restaurant at the moment had an opportunity to take pleasure in well-known Vietnamese dishes, corresponding to pho, banh mi, bun cha (vermicilli with grilled pork), or spring rolls. Particularly for individuals who had traveled to Vietnam, it was a possibility to recollect and re-experience Vietnamese meals that’s not simple to search out in South Africa. Many native individuals stated that Vietnamese meals may be very scrumptious due to freshness and a steadiness of taste components: bitter, bitter, salty, candy and fatty.