Vietnamese food promotion begins this September

The flagship restaurant of Hilton Colombo Residence, Union Bar & Grill will launch a Vietnamese Food Promotion under the selected theme of Discover Saigon's Treasures between September 3 and 9.

This will be the Hotel's fourth consecutive year of hosting a Vietnamese food promotion. With the assistance of culinary wizards Chef Vu Nhan Hien and Chef Nguyen Truong Luat from the Equatorial Hotel, Hoh Chi Minh City, this year, guests would be treated to an authentic Vietnamese feast.

Demi-Chef Vu Nhan Hien's culinary prowess is commendable - he has won medals in hot cooking for seafood and meat and an impressive gold medal at the MLA Black Box Culinary Challenge.

Chef Nguyen Truong Luat who is also a Demi-Chef, has won many awards to exhibit his many talents.

The menu compiled for this promotion has been carefully conjured by the two Chefs keeping the Sri Lankan palette in mind.

This year, the tempting appetizers range from pineapple salad, mini rice flour cake and fresh spring roll with stir fried beef to glass noodle with seafood salad.

Guests will also be treated to sour fish soup and crab meat soup during the promotion. The action stations would feature deep fried sweet potato with taro and prawn fritter, Vietnamese pancake and tempting desserts such as deep fried banana cake and chilled longan with lotus seed, baked cassava cake.

Commenting on the food promotion, Executive Chef Priyal Wijesuriya said, "The Vietnamese food promotion is something very near and dear to us and by bringing in Chefs Vu Nhan Hien and Nguyen Truong Luat we hope to introduce Colombo to an authentic cuisine in keeping with our objectives to offer a five-star dining experience".