The list of Ho Chi Minh City’s 100 exciting things was made public on Aug-21st. The list includes famous architectural works and special cuisines.
Nguyen Hue flower road
Earlier, on Jun-14th, 2012, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ho Chi Minh City launched a campaign that seeks and votes on 100 “exciting things” about Ho Chi Minh City. The campaign aims to recognize and promote the city’s outstanding cultural values and prominent tourism products and services.
The campaign was launched after 6 months of preparations. Its advisory board gathered and short-listed 218 “candidates” that people would vote on to decide the final list of 100 things.
The “candidates” were categorized under 20 groups, consists of luxury hotels, business hotels, tourist restaurants, exhibition-conference centers, travel tours, tourism events, beauty and health care, by-night entertainment locations, sightseeing locations, historic vestiges and cultural ,artistic, transport companies, art performance locations, Southern delicacies, varieties of fruit, museums, architecture, markets, coffee shops, shopping centers and souvenir products.
People contributed to this campaign by vote on these “things” from Jun-14th to Jul-30th, 2012. Beside the online voting, 2,500 ballot papers for each category were sent to experts in the mail and distributed to tourists via travel companies.
According to the organizing board, they received 29,000 paper votes and over 6,200 online votes.
A similar vote was organized two years ago.
The voting results
Five outstanding museums: Ho Chi Minh City History Museum, War Remnant Museum, Ho Chi Minh Museum, Ho Chi Minh City Art Museum and Ho Chi Minh City Museum.
Five outstanding architectural works: Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, Giac Lam Temple, Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street, Ho Chi Minh City Post Office and Ho Chi Minh City Opera House.
Five outstanding historical and cultural relics: Independence Palace, Thien Hau temple, Ngoc Hoang Palace, Cu Chi tunnel Rung Sac-Can and Gio military base.
Five interesting entertainment sites: Dam Sen Park, Suoi Tien Park, Binh Quoi Tourist Site, Saigon zoological and botanical garden and Mot Thoang Viet Nam tourist site.
Five typical traditional markets: Ben Thanh, Binh Tay, An Dong, Soai Kinh Lam and Tan Dinh.
Five outstanding forms of tourism: shopping, gastronomic tourism, waterway tourism, ecological tourism and city tour.
Five typical tourism events: Nguyen Hue flower road, Ho Chi Minh City tourism festival, Southern fruit festival, Tao Dan New-year flower festival, international food festival.
Five luxurious hotels: Sheraton, Majestic, Caravelle, Park Hyatt Saigon and REX.
Five business hotels: InterContinental, Windsor Plaza, Asianna Saigon, Legend Saigon and Continental.
Five exhibition-conference centers: White Palace, Saigon Fair and Exhibition Center, Phu Tho Sports House, Van Thanh Tourist Zone, Tan Binh Conference and Exhibition Center.
Five favorite shopping sites: Tax Trading Center, Vincom, Cresent Mall, Miss Ao Dai, Minh Phuong lacquare and fine-art shop.
Five favorite restaurants of tourists: Muoi Xiem banh xeo (Vietnamese crepe) restaurant, Cham Charm, Com nieu Saigon, Mandarin, Ngon.
Five typical souvenirs: ao dai, non la (conical hat), manually embroidery items, silk and sandy paintings.
Five favorite southern cuisines: banh xeo, goi cuon, com tam (broken rice), cha gio and caramel fish.
Five interesting entertainment sites at night: Semi-circle Lake, Pham Ngu Lao Street, Hard Rock Café, Megastar and Saigon Saigon Bar.
Five top beauty salons and spas: Ngọc Anh Spa, Sen Spa, La Cochinchine, Authentic Spa and Anam QT Spa.
Five interesting coffee shops: Highlands, Trung Nguyen, Gloria Jeans, Central, Windows.
Five typical transport firms: Taxi Mai Linh, Taxi Vinasun, Phuong Trang, Vietravel, Hoa Binh Travel.
Five favorite fruits: mangosteen, mango, star apple, pomelo and pitaya.
(Source: vietnamnet)
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