The three-day, from 01 to 03 Oct, Food & Hotel Vietnam 2009 will open at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in HCMC’s District 7, featuring a wide range of quality products and solutions from the international food and hospitality marketplace. The First Hotel cooks attending the cooking competition in this expo had won the following prizes:

-         Simmered Duck Meat With Ginger

-         Fish Maw And Pork Paste Soup

-         Fried Mycid Shrimp Paste

-         Sweet Steamed Rice Flour Paper

Bronze Medal for Nguyen Pham Chi Thien with

-         Fried Chicken Rollen With Vegetables And Lemon Grass

-         Fried Rice With Shrimp