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MarQuee Mall’s Big Bite! showcases northern cuisine

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MarQuee Mall, the city’s top shopping and leisure destination, celebrates the best of Northern cuisine, in Big Bite! The Northern Food Festival.  The event will be held at MarQuee Park on October 18-20, 2013.

Set in Pampanga, the culinary capital of the country, MarQuee Mall launched this festival to bring shoppers and patrons on a memorable culinary experience. 

The three-day festival features a huge outdoor food market complimented with sumptuous activities such as cooking demos from some of the Philippines’ best-known chefs, a cooking competition between culinary schools, food eating contests, a family recipe contest and the big banquet promo where shoppers get to sample delectable treats for free from participating vendors.

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This is the biggest culinary celebration in Luzon this year.  Big Bite's Food Market will have over 100 vendors representing Pampanga, Baguio, Bataan, Bulacan, Cagayan, Ilocos, La Union, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Pangasinan and Zambales.  Over the course of three days this October, people will enjoy all their favourite foods from these provinces in just one destination.

The adventure in Big Bite! begins with its food market where visitors will find regional specialties and delicacies like lechon, bagnet, chicharon, pancit, tocino, tapa and sweets like turrones, halo-halo, kakanin, cookies and pastries.  MarQuee Mall shoppers have a chance of tasting endless food choices throughout the food market.  For Big Banquet, visitors with a P500 receipt from any MarQuee Mall store can get free food samples from participating stalls everyday from 6:00-8:00 PM.
  
To learn more about cooking, festival-goers get to watch onstage demonstrations from renowned chefs Rolando Laudico, Sau del Rosario and TV star Sabrina Artadi, and Pampanga’s culinary treasure, Atching Lillian Borromeo.

Chef Laudico, owner of Bistro Filipino, is famed as the judge of TV’s Junior MasterChef Pinoy Edition.  Fellow Culinary Institute of America-educated Chef Sau del Rosario, a proud Pampanga native, has led Tour Flair’s Pampanga Food Safari. Beauty queen Sabrina Artadi has been cooking up a storm and gaining a strong following for her TV show, Sabrina’s Kitchen, now on its third season.  Meantime, renowned Pampanga cook Atching Lillian Borromeo is best known for opening up her ancestral home for visitors to get a taste of authentic Kapampangan home cooking.

Culinary students are expected to cheer on their schoolmates at the Big Bite! Cook Off every day from 3:00-5:00 PM. Philippine Women’s University, System’s Plus College, Angeles University Foundation, NorthPoint Culinary Academy and Bulacan State University will vie for the chance to be the first Big Bite! Cook Off champion.

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For those with recipes of Filipino dishes handed from their ancestors, Big Bite! gives them a chance to show off through the heirloom recipe contest.  Contestants get a chance to win P20,000 for their recipe.  Visitors can also join food eating contests and enjoy live entertainment throughout the festival.


 (Clockwise from top) Chef Sabrina Artadi, Chef Sau del Rosario, Atching Lillian Borromeo, Rolando Laudico

MarQuee Mall’s Big Bite! The Northern Food Festival is staged in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Department of Trade and Industry, Manila North Tollways Corporation, Asian Food Channel, Cignal Digital TV, and Mercato Centrale Group.


For further details and inquiries, please call +639177527071 or email:  bigbiteMarQuee@gmail.com.  Like and follow MarQuee Mall’s social networking sites, Facebook: facebook.com/MarQueeMall, Twitter: @MarQueetweets, and instagram: @iloveMarQueemall.


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