25 November 2014 - The Philippine Consulate General organized the 2014 Philippine Food Festival in Hong Kong SAR.  The food fest was launched at The Market of Hotel ICON on October 24 and ended its successful run on November 02. This was the hotel’s first-ever Philippine food festival at The Market which was fully-booked during the entire run.  Hotel ICON is a hip luxury hotel in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui area.

Filipino celebrity chefs Rolando (Chef Lau) and Jacqueline (Chef Jac) Laudico  prepared signature Filipino dishes such as tuna and scallop kilawin, duck adobo, prawn miso sinigang soup, mango salad in bagoong (shrimp paste) vinaigrette, pan-fried lapu-lapu fillet in tabang talangka (crab roe) sauce, bringhe (Philippine version of paella), grilled Angus rib-eye bistek Tagalog and the Philippines’ famous lechon (roast pork).  For dessert, Chef Jac served suman (sticky rice cake) panna cotta, tsokolate oh (chocolate mousse), banana and jackfruit turon (fried sweet wrap) and halo-halo.

Mango ginger mojito, espresso Amadeo and Manille martini cocktails from the Philippines’ oldest liquor company, Destileria Limtuaco, were also featured during the event.  

Prior to the actual food festival, Hotel ICON held a two-session Food Tasting eventon September 12 for the Hong Kong media which included food writers and bloggers from South China Morning Post, Crave and Foodie magazines, Lifestyle Asia, Apple Daily, Oriental News Daily, Cosmo Girl and Hong Kong’s most popular foodie website www.openrice.com.The Department of Tourism provided souvenir bags during the event. 

Philippine Airlines also awarded roundtrip tickets to Boracay for participants in the Food Tasting for the media, and the actual food festival via a food game on the Hotel ICON’s Facebook page. 

The Philippine Food Festival is part of the Philippines Consulate General’s cultural diplomacy program which includes promoting Filipino cuisine and food products.  END