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 can offer. Our Awesome
Planet’s Anton Diaz also brief the participants what to expect on the tour.
The tour has crossed through four locations in Pampanga and
five locations around the Metro, starting at Recovery Food at the Bonifacio
Global City (BGC) in Taguig which served their Tapa de Morning. The tour then
went to Pampanga, and the first destination is Everybody’s Café in the City of
San Fernando, which has been running since 1946 and is dubbed as a home to
Kapampangan cuisine.
The next stop is the famous Aling Lucing’s sisig at the City
of Angeles where the dish was invented in 1974. Following that, the tour rushed
over to Café Fleur of Chef Sau Del Rosario for a lunch of avant-garde
Kapampangan dishes with an international twist. The last stop in the tour is
the Ayala Marquee Mall in Pampanga wherein everyone got a taste of the delicious classic Ensaimada.
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 to dumplings to teas and other mouth-watering meals, and then
went back to BGC to witness a boodle fight at the Sarsa Kitchen + Bar which
serves Filipino and Negrense cuisine.
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
- Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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