Bajai Halfőző Fesztivál - 2016
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Usually held around early July.
Based on 12 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- July 07 - July 10, 2016
- Location
- Szentháromság tér (Holy Trinity Square), Baja, Baja, Hungary
About This Event
Baja calls itself the capital of halászlé, the paprika-red Danube fish soup, and the festival is the town's big summer gathering. Amateur cooks and teams set up cauldrons in the centre and stir the soup over open fire, with the main cooking day on the Saturday. Around the cooking there are concerts, markets and family programmes, and the entry to the town-centre part is free while some stage programmes at Petőfi Island need a ticket. It began as a one-off celebration of the town and has run every July since.
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Organizer
- Baja Marketing Kft. (managing director Bócsa Barnabás)
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Location
Szentháromság tér (Holy Trinity Square), Baja, Baja, Hungary
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What's on
Four-day festival, 7-10 July 2016, cooking on Saturday 9 July at 18:00 (hvg: the 20th anniversary of the first one). Béla Béres, organiser of twelve editions, recalled the feeling of 1996. Organisers needed about 14 t of fish for more than 20,000 portions. Figures differ: the official release says nearly 2,000 cooks, hvg reports 3,000 cauldrons.
On the menu
- Bajai halászlé (Baja fish soup, carp, paprika, onion, served with gyufatészta pasta)