LuLu Hypermarkets, Saudi Arabia is hosting a Philippine Food Festival starting Wednesday (June 12) to June 21, 2013 in cooperation with the Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia. Ezzedin H. Tago, Ambassador of the Philippines in Saudi Arabia, will officially inaugurate the festival Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in LuLu Murabba, Riyadh and on the same day at 5:00 p.m. in LuLu Al-Khobar by Adam Moosa, Labor Attaché, Philippine Embassy. The main objective of the festival is to showcase a huge range of Filipino products and foodstuffs imported from the Philippines and also a large variety of breads and confectionary items locally made in the bakeries of LuLu Hypermarkets and also to create a platform for Filipinos to mark memorable moments on the national day. During the festival, guests will be welcomed in the Philippine traditional way and the hypermarkets will be specially decorated for the occasion. The hypermarket atmosphere will take guests on a journey to savor the delicious tastes of the Philippines. Products ranging from Philippine bananas and pineapples, milkfish, dried fish and pancit bihon and many more are widely available in LuLu Hypermarkets. LuLu has been a major importer of Philippine products and made arrangements to add more products in its outlets.. Moreover, the festival will be showcasing the best consumer products & food products, including groceries, fresh and frozen foods as well as offering freshly prepared traditional Filipino dishes. Practically all Filipino products will be available on attractive prices under the roof of LuLu. Authentic flavors from the Philippines will be prepared by our chef, who will be providing a wide variety of different authentic Filipino dishes such as kare kare, adobo, pinakbet, bulalo, sinigang, kaldreta and sweets like pitchy pitchy, puto pao, buko pie, cassava cakes, sapin-sapin, ginatang mais presented in the traditional way. The festive event supports the ongoing culinary activities at the LuLu Hypermarkets, Saudi Arabia. There will be cooking competition on June 20 at 12:00 noon in LuLu Murabba, Riyadh. It will be a time for the whole family to roll up their sleeves and enjoy a whole host of cooking demonstrations and workshops.
During this promotion period, LuLu outlets in Riyadh and Al-Khobar would be decorated with huge and colorful official tourism concept of the Philippines with the tag line “WOW PHILIPPINES”. LuLu invites everyone to this 10-day grand event and hopes that its customers will have a pleasant and unforgettable shopping experience! — SG
