HUTECH Celebrates the Lunar New Year with Mouthwatering Tet Cuisine From The Country.
- 02/03/2023
"Celebrating Tet In Your Homeland" was the theme of the Tet Delicacy Contest and Tet Tray Decoration event held at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, which created a lot of excitement in the school yard on January 14th.
The lively atmosphere of the competition at Saigon Campus
Dr. Nguyen Toan, a member of the Founding Council, Ms. Vo Thi Quach Hong, an expert in culinary arts, restaurant management, and food service, and Prof. Dr. Nguyen Trung Kien, the Vice Rector, were all responsible for ensuring fairness in the contest. The school's board of directors and many teachers attended te event, cheering on the thirty-five teams from the various faculties, institutes, departments, and centers within the university, collectively known as CN-Teachers-NV.
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Board of judges - "weighs" the competition
Each participating team competed in two categories: cooking delicious Tet dishes and decorating Tet trays. In the cooking segment, each team prepared a dish with a typical Tet flavor from their respective region within 60 minutes. The teams made dishes that were associated with traditional New Year celebrations from the three regions of Vietnam, such as braised duck meat, stewed bitter melon soup, fried spring rolls, boiled chicken, bamboo shoot soup, and more.
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Teams are cooking traditional Tet dishes
In addition to their delicious Vietnamese dishes, the competition teams also wowed the judges with their diverse range of Tet tray decorations, ranging from rustic and ethereal to colorful. Each dish on the trays had a special meaning, representing the hope for a peaceful, lucky, prosperous, and fulfilling New Year, as presented by the team representatives.
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The members have connected with each other through the competition
After scoring the teams, the Jury Council made fair judgments and assessments and selected the best teams. The final results are as follows:
Prizes being awarded to the best teams
>>> The Tet delicacies contest
First Prize: School Office
Second Prize: Faculty of Tourism - Restaurant - Hotel Management
Third Prize: Finance Department
Consolation Prize: Faculty of Chinese Studies and Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts
>>> Tet tray decoration contest
First Prize: Trade Union Division - Institute - Center
Second Prize: International Training Institute
Third Prize: Vietnam - Japan Institute of Technology
Consolation prize: Center for Informatics - Foreign Languages - Skills and Admissions Counseling Center - Center for Communication - Marketing & Brand Development (Team 2)
Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoang Viet speaks at the contest
At the contest, the units also received meaningful gifts from the School Union;
News: Mai Thy
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Translators: Tường Vy - Aiza
