(Baonghean.vn) - During each visit to Vietnam, many world leaders do not miss the opportunity to explore local cuisine and Vietnamese specialties that are famous worldwide after these special guests have tasted them.
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| In 2016, former US President Obama visited Vietnam. During his stay in Hanoi, he unexpectedly visited and dined at the casual Huong Lien bun cha restaurant on Le Van Huu Street. His meal that day, consisting of bun cha, seafood spring rolls, and beer, cost 85,000 VND. |
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| During his official visit to Vietnam in early November, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enjoyed a cup of coffee at a Saigon-style café located on the corner of Le Thanh Ton and Le Anh Xuan streets in District 1, costing 30,000 VND per cup. He sat on the sidewalk like any other customer, using a plastic chair as a table. |
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| On the morning of November 10, 2017, before beginning his workday in the APEC 2017 series of events, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had a traditional Vietnamese breakfast of banh mi (Vietnamese sandwich) at a restaurant located on Tran Van Thanh Street, My An Ward, Ngu Hanh Son District, Da Nang. |
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| On the occasion of attending the APEC 2017 Conference in Da Nang, on the afternoon of November 9, 2017, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited the hot spring resort, bathed in the mineral springs, and enjoyed banh xeo (Vietnamese savory pancake) and many other local dishes. |
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| Prince William of the United Kingdom visited Vietnam in mid-November 2016 for a wildlife conference. He chose to visit Thuoc Bac Street – a street with many traditional medicine shops – and ended his visit at the Aha cafe on the same street. |
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| During a stroll through the Old Quarter on the afternoon of September 6, 2016, former French President Francois Hollande stopped at Cong Cafe on Ma May Street and had a conversation with many former French students who had studied there. |
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| In 2000, former President Bill Clinton and his wife's first visit to Vietnam was marked by memorable experiences eating pho in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. In Hanoi, they visited Pho Co restaurant near the Temple of Literature. Because they liked the dish so much, when they went to Ho Chi Minh City, the Clintons visited a pho restaurant near Ben Thanh Market. Later, the restaurant changed its name to Pho 2000 to commemorate their visit and has since become famous. |
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| Former US President George W. Bush, while attending APEC Week in November 2006, enjoyed Hue-style dishes such as crab claws with mixed vegetables, coconut soup, spring rolls, jackfruit salad, shrimp and rice cake, jackfruit salad, and lotus seed sweet soup for dessert. Upon tasting the spring rolls, Mr. Bush praised them and recommended that his wife, Laura Bush, try them. At the end of the meal, the former First Lady of the United States praised the restaurant, saying, "Wonderful!" |
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| Instead of enjoying the dishes at the reception during his visit in July 2016, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico chose to visit a Vietnamese-style restaurant on Nguyen Gia Thieu Street in Hanoi. The restaurant, Cho Que, is decorated in a simple, rustic style, with staff wearing traditional brown uniforms and paintings depicting Vietnamese countryside scenes. |
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| On July 13, 2016, Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos made a surprise visit to a restaurant in Hanoi specializing in dishes from the northern mountainous region. He and his delegation enjoyed dishes such as black olive and sprout salad, sticky rice grilled with purple leaves, lotus seed sticky rice, charcoal-grilled Hmong beef, Hmong beef steak, Tien Yen chicken fillet with orange sauce, and highland vegetable soup... All dishes were prepared using traditional methods, thus preserving their natural flavors. |
Kim Ngoc
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