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National Pitha Festival in Dhaka
National Pitha Festival is a week-long winter gathering in Dhaka where vendors from dozens of districts sell traditional rice cakes side by side, alongside daily music and dance performances. It is the easiest way to sample a home-kitchen food tradition that rarely appears in restaurants. Expect grazing rather than a sit-down meal, working through dozens of small stalls over a few hours.
More than fifty stalls, each staffed by vendors from a different district, spread across a Dhaka cultural-academy compound each winter to sell rice cakes that most Bangladeshis usually only eat at home.