UVSA Tet Festival

About this happenin

A bamboo pole, Cây Nêu, goes up on the first evening of UVSA Tết Festival with a good luck message on a red scroll, the way it is raised in Vietnam to mark the start of Tết. An ancestral altar procession in the costumes of a royal court then opens the festival officially. It runs at Golden West College in Huntington Beach over a three-day weekend around Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Student volunteers with the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California, a nonprofit, have run it since 1982, and UVSA describes it as the nation's largest Vietnamese Lunar New Year festival. General admission is $10 at the gate, and infants 2 and under get in free with a paying adult. Làng Việt Nam is a replica of a traditional village, with exhibits and models of Vietnamese architecture. Food vendors fill the grounds, and the biggest crowds at the contest stage come for the pho eating contest.

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Where

Golden West College · 15744 Goldenwest St, Huntington Beach, CA 92647