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1. Mid-autumn festival
in Vietnam
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2. CONTENT
1. Overview
2. What you should know
about mid-autumn
festival in Vietnam
3.Contact us

3. 1. OVERVIEW
When wandering around streets of Hanoi these days, you
may come across with various colorful lanterns and a long
range of stalls selling some cakes. You may wonder what
locals do it for and what those things mean. In this article,
we would like to give the answer to your concern. Let’s
discover one of the most important festivals in Vietnam –
mid-autumn festival in Vietnam.

4. 1. OVERVIEW
Mid-autumn festival is held on 15th Augus (lunar calendar). This
year, the festival is on 24th September (Western calendar). This
festival is mostly for children so there are plenty of activities in
which children are the center. The weather for such an event is
so inducing for those outdoor activities held at night. On that
day, the moon is the most beautiful and brightest shining like a
gorgeous hue. This year, it is predicted that the average
temperature goes around 27 – 29 degrees Celsius with scattered
rain in some places.

5. 2. Mid-autumn festival
in Vietnam
Meaning of mid-autumn
festival in Vietnam
Activities during mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
Food to enjoy in mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
Where to go in mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam

6. Meaning of mid-autumn
festival in Vietnam
On mid-autumn festival in
Vietnam, parents buy
various toys for their kids,
prepare a tray full of moon
cakes and fruits.
At around 9:00 pm, it is
the high time for family
gathering together and
enjoy all those things.

7. Meaning of mid-autumn
festival in Vietnam
Adults may be busy sharing
about their works and life
while kids are curious for
their toys and other funny
games.
Thus, mid-autumn festival is
the chance for family union
and for parents to show their
love to their children and for
the children to express their
gratitude to their parents.

8. Activities during mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
The most longing activity
of mid-autumn fesvial in
Vietnam is “phá cỗ”.
It is when the whole
family starts to enjoy the
tray of moon cakes and
fruits.

9. Activities during mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
After that, the children
will gather to join some
traditional games like
lion dance, tug of war,
star-shaped lantern
parade, dragon snake,
cat and mouse game and
mud banger, etc.

10. Activities during mid-autumn
festival in Vietnam
Watching their kids play happily can warm any parent.
This is when the family bond is greatly strengthened.

11. Food to enjoy in mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
The most typical food in
mid-autumn festival is
moon cake. You may ask,
why people name it moon
cake right? The reason is
because of its round shape
like a shining moon on full-
moon days.
The cake is made from
bread flour (its crust), lotus
seeds, peanut, sausage,
pork fat for the filling.

12. Food to enjoy in mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
There are two types of
moon cakes with different
crust. One is banh deo
with the crust softer than
the other – banh nuong.
Originally, the filling of
moon cake comes from
those traditional
ingredients like lotus
seeds, peanut.

13. Food to enjoy in mid-
autumn festival in
Vietnam
Nowadays, to catch up
with the change in taste
of eaters, moon cakes
also become more and
more modern from
patterns, ingredients and
taste.

14. Where to go during mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
Traditionally in Vietnam,
the popular place to host
various activities in mid-
autumn festival is the
social ground in local
temple. This is a spacious
area to organize plenty of
activities in a village.

15. Where to go during mid-
autumn festival in Vietnam
Now, there are more and
more places to host the
visit of people to spend
their night out in mid-
autumn festival.
Do these places sound
familiar to you?

16. Imperial Citadel of Thang Long
Imperial Citadel of Thang Long is located in Hoang Dieu Street about
3 km from Hoan Kiem Lake. On 15th August (Lunar Calendar), Thang
Long Imperial Citadel gets crowded with many families gathering
there to join in various activities.

17. Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
Recently Vietnam Museum Ethnology is one of the popular places
hosting Mid-autumn festival in Hanoi. The organization is so
professional that it draws a huge attention of people flocking to the
place to enjoy the festival.

18. Big supermarkets or
central markets
Some famous central markets like Royal City, Times City, Vincom
Mega Mall Royal City also become a popular place to host mid-
autumn festival in Hanoi.

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