Central co-hosts second Vietnamese Goods Week

[rooster59]

Central co-hosts second Vietnamese Goods Week

By THE NATION

 

Products on show are all ‘Made in Vietnam’ and are also on sales at Central Group’s outlets in Vietnam.

 

VIETNAM’S Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is visiting Thailand to open the second annual Vietnamese Goods Week.

Central Group is confident that the event will create opportunities for both Thai and Vietnamese investors to expand business for mutual growth. 

 

Tos Chirathivat, executive chairman and CEO of Central Group, said Thailand and Asean member Vietnam have a long-established relationship of trade and investment, while diplomatic relations go back over 40 years. 

 

“For these reasons, Central Group has joined Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, Central Vietnam and Central Food Retail to host Vietnamese Goods Week in Thailand Year 2 to promote international business and trade opportunities by distributing outstanding Vietnamese products to be better known among Thai people,” he said.

 

The opening ceremonies of the event taking place at Central Plaza Ladprao until Sunday were to be presided over by Vietnam’s prime minister, alongside Pichet Durongkaveroj, the Thai digital economy and society minister; Wanvilai Promlakano, deputy Bangkok governor; and senior executives of Central Group. 

 

Products on show are all “Made in Vietnam”. They are on sale at outlets of Central Group in Vietnam. 

 

Consumer goods are in over 60 sales booths, more than 300 SKUs and divided into consumables and non-food products.

 

Consumables include tea, coffee, nuts, and fresh fruit such as lychee and dragon fruit. 

 

There are also dried fruit, sausages, rice products like prawn crackers and noodles, lingzhi mushrooms and coconut products such as candy and cakes.

 

Non-food products include home appliances, household utensils, kitchen and bathroom equipment, shoes, bags, accessories, menswear and womenswear, scarves and stationery.

 

There are also bamboo products such as bags, tables, chairs and clothing.

 

The event gives Thais the opportunity to purchase many products shipped directly from Vietnam without having to travel there, while it may inspire them to visit the neighbouring country. 

 

The event will also be another channel for over 60 Thai entrepreneurs from both large companies and SMEs to learn about Vietnamese products and negotiate business-to-business deals with their Vietnamese counterparts.

 

It will also create relationships to expand Thai investment in Vietnam in the future. 

 

At the event, Central Group is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam’s Industry and Trade Ministry to hold the second Vietnamese Goods Week in Thailand and to hold the event annually from now on. 

 

Central Group is aligned to support the distribution of Vietnamese products as well as agricultural products. 

 

It hopes that Vietnam will continue to provide support and trust to this collaboration among the state, the private sector and Central Group.

 

This will promote mutual trade and investment on a basis of common benefit to improve the standard of living of both countries in the future.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/aec/30324225

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-19

[Thian]

Litchi, bamboo, dragonfruit....all same same krab.

 

Why not ask them for milkfruit? Can those things travel well? Or vietnamese lumpia's.

[Cadbury]

Some nice Vietnam food products on offer in this co-operative trade arrangement. These imports are partially balanced by the export of high quality delicious Thai soi dogs supplied by the truckload into Vietnam via Laos.

 

[Thian]

15 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Some nice Vietnam food products on offer in this co-operative trade arrangement. These imports are partially balanced by the export of high quality delicious Thai soi dogs supplied by the truckload into Vietnam via Laos.

 

Do they eat hot-dog saucages from rabies dogs?

 

Vietnamese lumpia's are a great streetfood for on the go...with nice chilisauce..

[tonray]

Good Morning, Vietnam ! Welcome to the grand opening of TOPS market, Hanoi !

[Thian]

2 minutes ago, tonray said:

Good Morning, Vietnam ! Welcome to the grand opening of TOPS market, Hanoi !

That's fine, so the Taiwanese supermarkets can also open in BKK. Let the pricefighting begin!! 

[Cadbury]

7 minutes ago, Thian said:

Do they eat hot-dog saucages from rabies dogs?

 

Vietnamese lumpia's are a great streetfood for on the go...with nice chilisauce..

Answers: I suspect the rabies is destroyed in the cooking. They do make sausages from the dog blood and other internal bits and pieces; somewhat like black pudding. And NO they don't eat dog with chilli sauce. They eat it with a fermented dipping sauce. Dog tastes OK but the sauce tastes foul.

[Damrongsak]

I had to look up "lumpia".  My wife makes them by the 100's.  But her Vietnamese fried spring rolls with the rice wrappers are to die for.  The ones with noodles and stuff inside.  They are very time consuming to make but sooo good. I usually get enlisted to help get the thin wrappers unstuck from each other while she does the stuffing.  Dip them in tamarind and crushed peanut hot sauce.

 

[Cadbury]

4 minutes ago, tonray said:

Good Morning, Vietnam ! Welcome to the grand opening of TOPS market, Hanoi !

BigC is already in Vietnam and these stores are now under Thai ownership.

If Tops comes I hope it will be maintaining it's high standard of food quality and hygiene?

[Thian]

10 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

I had to look up "lumpia".  My wife makes them by the 100's.  But her Vietnamese fried spring rolls with the rice wrappers are to die for.  The ones with noodles and stuff inside.  They are very time consuming to make but sooo good. I usually get enlisted to help get the thin wrappers unstuck from each other while she does the stuffing.  Dip them in tamarind and crushed peanut hot sauce.

 

Springroll and lumpia is same same sir...don't know where those words came from but both are used.

 

The ricesheet springrolls are eaten raw iirc, the deepfried ones have another crust and those are the best.

 

In BKK the vietnamese restaurants always look so clean, tidy and empty...so i rarely visit them...there's no atmosphere or nice decoration.

 

 

[tonray]

9 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

BigC is already in Vietnam and these stores are now under Thai ownership.

If Tops comes I hope it will be maintaining it's high standard of food quality and hygiene?

You are being ridiculous ! Everyone knows that Vietnamese rats prefer savory over sweet

[ezzra]

I'd kill for an authentic Ba-Mi sandwich and a hearty Phu, the

famous beef soup, i don't think any of the local VN restaurants

can replicates the real VN stuff here.... 

[Damrongsak]

1 hour ago, Thian said:

The ricesheet springrolls are eaten raw iirc, the deepfried ones have another crust and those are the best.

 

My wife uses the same large round rice wrappers for the raw ones (with the fresh veggies) and the deep fried ones as far as I know.  I think she puts rice noodles (kanom Jin) in the fresh ones and glass noodles in the fried ones.  Been doing that for the last 39 years.  Her folks were from Vietnam.  (And a long-lost sister was discovered there.  Now I have freakin' relatives in two countries.  The sister learned some Thai.  Called me up on a Facebook video chat ... two 60 year olds with marginal Thai language skills trying to carry on a conversation.  Amusing.)

 

The fried rice wrappers come out more chewy than crispy the way she does it.  The aroma of the wrappers is to die for.  Possibly like Kao Crua, the toasted rice that is pounded to a powder and used in some dishes.  Similar to the smell of fresh bread or Basmati/Jasmine rice.

 

The deep-fried small rolls use a small, square wheat flour wrapper.  Similar to a won ton wrapper. Slap a little ground pork (or chicken) and cabbage in and you are good to go.

Edited August 19, 2017 by Damrongsak

[Damrongsak]

1 hour ago, tonray said:

You are being ridiculous ! Everyone knows that Vietnamese rats prefer savory over sweet

Do NOT eat the pastries with the "sprinkles".  That is NOT chocolate.

[Thian]

4 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

My wife uses the same large round rice wrappers for the raw ones (with the fresh veggies) and the deep fried ones as far as I know.  I think she puts rice noodles (kanom Jin) in the fresh ones and glass noodles in the fried ones.  Been doing that for the last 39 years.  Her folks were from Vietnam.  (And a long-lost sister was discovered there.  Now I have freakin' relatives in two countries.  The sister learned some Thai.  Called me up on a Facebook video chat ... two 60 year olds with marginal Thai language skills trying to carry on a conversation.  Amusing.)

 

The fried rice wrappers come out more chewy than crispy the way she does it.  The aroma of the wrappers is to die for.  Possibly like Kao Crua, the toasted rice that is pounded to a powder and used in some dishes.  Similar to the smell of fresh bread or Basmati/Jasmine rice.

 

The deep-fried small rolls use a small, square wheat flour wrapper.  Similar to a won ton wrapper. Slap a little ground pork (or chicken) and cabbage in and you are good to go.

Years ago i tried making deepfried vietnamse springrolls with the ricesheets but they burned wasy i remember and were not crispy.

 

So i found another wrapper later which worked better for deepfrying.

 

I wished the springrolls were sold in every mall, love those. And i hope thailand and it's neighbours will do more activities like this, there's also A LOT of food in Indo/Malaysia that is not available in Thailand. Indonesian kitchen is also great.

[tryasimight]

16 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Tos Chirathivat, executive chairman and CEO of Central Group, said Thailand and Asean member Vietnam have a long-established relationship of trade and investment, while diplomatic relations go back over 40 years. 

The diplomatic relations were a bit shaky prior to that  if memory serves me right.

 

B52's were quite 'in your face' diplomacy and not in a nice way.

 

Wonder if the one legged Cambodians feel the same way

[Bill Miller]

I bought some handmade clothes for my great nieces. 
Very nice, and the kids are thrilled to get such from their eccentric uncle in a far away, exotic land.
Last time it was skirts made by the Karin Hill people.
They are also thrilled by the handful of coins I throw in the package. 

[Damrongsak]

My wife used to buy clothing in the US and sent it back for the relatives.  I noted that a few items she sent were made in Vietnam.  She said the quality of the stuff exported to the US was better, so back it went. 555