World Street Food Congress - 15-Hour “Food Frenzy Safari” takes eating and travel to the next level together
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
In anticipation of the upcoming World Street Food Congress
this April, Singapore-based food guide Makansutra, the Department of Tourism
and Ayala Malls presented the 15-Hour Food Frenzy Safari, which took the local
and international media present to a five-city trip throughout Pampanga and
Metro Manila to taste the delicacies these cities
The tour has crossed through four locations in Pampanga and
five locations around the Metro, starting at at Tapa de
The next stop is the famous Aling sisig
Amidst the traffic jams, the tour successfully got to Diamond
Hotel for the press conference wherein Singapore’s champion of street food
culture and Makansutra founder KF Seetoh briefed the delegates on what to
expect in the Congress once it is set here in April at the BGC. Everyone got a
taste of Indonesian cuisine as well courtesy of Indonesia’s culinary ambassador
Chef William Wongso who is also with the tour’s entourage.
Afterwards, the tour goes to Chinatown, Binondo, Manila, for
the Big Binondo Food Walk with Ivan Man Dy of Old Manila Walks as a guide,
going from place to place to taste what one of the oldest Chinatowns has to
offer-from hopia
The last stop in the tour is the Mercato Central Night
Market, also inside the BGC. There, they enjoyed lechon and some even rose up
to the challenge of eating the duck delicacy balut . The participants are then
given tokens of appreciation and the title of “Food Commandos,” as they survive
the 15-Hour Food Trip. The Food Frenzy Safari is indeed a feast for the eyes
and the belly.
Writer: Jay Agonoy
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