After the solemn rituals on Hon Noi island to commemorate the predecessors of Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest profession, on the evening of June 5, in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company organized a festival with the main activity being the Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Culinary Festival in 2025.
The main highlight of the culinary festival includes vibrant cultural and artistic performances, displaying images of mining and processing activities, achievements of research projects on bird's nest products, and the labor beauty of bird's nest workers. In addition, the culinary competition always attracts the attention of the public.
At bird's nest Park, Tran Phu Street, Nha Trang City, many tourists were surprised to see the chefs show off extremely special dishes right on Nha Trang beach.
20 teams of chefs and workers representing member units nationwide of Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company together created the bird's nest banquet for 90 minutes.
The organizing committee provided each team with a budget of 1.5 million VND and 20 grams of refined bird's nest on Khanh Hoa natural bird's nest island. Each team will prepare 2 dishes, including 1 salty dish and 1 sweet dish, for 4 people.
One of the top criteria for teams participating in cooking dishes is how to make diners feel the nutritional value of Khanh Hoa wild bird's nest.
With 25 years of experience, chef Nguyen Van Hoang - a son of Nha Trang beach - is always passionate about how to bring Khanh Hoa bird's nest cuisine closer to many diners.
In this contest, Mr. Hoang and his colleagues chose to combine bird's nest with salmon and tropical fruits. 2 dishes with the highest nutritional value, both have full ingredients and have a harmonious meaning to the person enjoying them.
For chef Nguyen Bang, "combining to enhance the value through bird's nest and turmeric sticky rice flower" is the dish he brought to the contest for the first time. With the rich combination of protein, vitamins, calcium of salmon... the party that Mr. Bang's team performed was highly appreciated.
Khanh Hoa bird's nest cuisine was first held at Nha Trang Sea Festival 2009 and has recently been upgraded to a festival.
Mr. Le Huu Hoang - Permanent Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee shared that Khanh Hoa is a province with the characteristics of both sea and forest. This has created a diverse Khanh Hoa culinary culture.
bird's nest products are a quintessence of the land and sky, creating delicious and nutritious dishes. Through this festival, Khanh Hoa hopes that visitors will understand and feel more deeply about Khanh Hoa's delicious culinary culture. At the same time, it is a valuable travel gift to bring home to relatives.
Khanh Hoa bird's nest craft today not only preserves the skills of climbing the cliff to get bird's nest, the technique of processing nutritious dishes from bird's nest or competing to display unique bird's nest products, but also preserves a long-standing cultural festival.
As for those who work in the festival, the festival ended with a banquet, further strengthening solidarity and attachment in the community of those who keep the fire burning for the Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest heritage.
