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Philippine Consul General to Shanghai Maria Rowena Mendoza Sanchez together
with Mr. Jimmy Cheung of Eton Properties and Mr. Nash Qureshi , General
Manager of Eton Hotel during the opening of the Philippine Food Festival
Mr. Nash Qureshi, General Manager of Eton Hotel, Filipino Chefs Edwin Agon
and Rudy Velasco, Eton Hotel’s Executive Sous Chef Meinrad Heinitz together
with Consulate staff Loreen Bastan, Grace Bentican, Genie San Pedro, Girlie
Dinso and Ms. Rose Victorio.
16 June 2009: A
most sumptuous feast of Philippine cuisine at the Eton Hotel Shanghai was
launched on 12 June 2009 as part of the 111th
Anniversary of Philippine Independence. The event dubbed “ Philippine Food
Festival“ was
organized by
The Eton Hotel Shanghai in cooperation with
the
Philippine Consulate General and the Philippine Airlines.
The
Philippine Food Festival
will run until the 21st of June 2009
at the Eton Café
and
promises a delectable daily buffet lunch and dinner for the duration of the
food festival
featuring the diverse tastes of Philippine cuisine from some of the
country’s 7,107 islands.
Filipino master chefs Edwin Agon and Rudy Velasco flew from the Philippines
especially for the food festival. The
wide array of dishes they will prepare emphasize the diverse interplay of
gastronomic influences and cooking traditions that have fused together to
give rise to Philippine cuisine. Not many know that Philippine cuisine
traces its roots to Malay, Chinese and Spanish cookery.
The daily lunch
and dinner buffet features mouthwatering Philippine dishes and desserts.
All ingredients are manufactured by Filipino food makers and flown in fresh
from the Philippine shores.
More than
introducing Philippine cuisine to the local market, the food festival also
shows creative ways of integrating Philippine food and ingredients to
Chinese cuisine.
The officers and staff of the Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai were
joined by members of the Consular Corps in Shanghai and members of the
Chinese media for the opening of the food festival. END
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