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Feb 28, 2019 / 14:05

Hanoi ensures food safety for DPRK-US summit

The Hanoi Department of Health encourages business owners and sellers to introduce and promote Vietnamese cuisine to international friends during the Trump-Kim summit.

Hanoi not only ensures food safety in accommodation areas of delegates, guests and journalists attending the second DPRK-US summit in Vietnam, but also requests outside restaurants to strengthen food safety during the whole event.
 
Dishes are also decorated with the US and North Korean flags. Photo: Kinhtedothi.vn
Dishes are also decorated with the US and North Korean flags. Photo: Kinhtedothi.vn
Director of the Hanoi Department of Food Hygiene Tran Ngoc Tu said that the Hanoi Department of Health directed districts and towns to strengthen inspection for food safety at restaurants and street food on every street in the capital.

Besides, the department encourages business owners and sellers to introduce and promote Vietnamese cuisine to international friends during the summit, because there are a large number of international visitors to Hanoi.

In fact, according to reporters' observation, many restaurants on Hanoi's big streets actively decorated their facelift before the summit. A pho restaurant owner on Hang Trong street said that in recent days, an un usually higher number of international visitors came to her shop. She has actively bought more food to serve customers, asked employees to pay more attention to sanitation..Especially, although the number of tourists is larger, the price of meals has not increased.