Colombo, Aug. 23 -- The Vietnamese Embassy in Sri Lanka recently inaugurated a Vietnamese culinary week at the Hilton Colombo Hotel, celebrating the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Sri Lanka (1970-2025).

The opening ceremony on the evening of August 21 (local time) was attended by Vietnamese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Trinh Thi Tam, Sri Lankan Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Wasantha Samarasinghe, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment Arun Hemachandra, and Hilton Colombo General Manager Mahesh Fernando.

In her remarks, Ambassador Tam stressed that this is the first Vietnamese culinary week organised in Colombo in many years. She appreciated the strong c...