Filipinos and different expats within the United Arab Emirates loved a fiesta of flavours of the Philippines at Halo-Halo Restaurant’s Pistang Pinoy inaugural opening.
The three-day occasion was held on the upscale four-star Edge Creekside Resort in Deira it’s a part of the Asian Meals Pageant that can have diners embracing the variety of Asia’s most scrumptious dishes.
Many Filipinos, Emiratis and expats from Lebanon, Syria, Mexico, US, Italy, France, Sweden, Costa Rica, India and extra chimed in to expertise the scrumptious style of Filipino meals.
“Halo Halo Restaurant was conceptualised with the thought of bringing Asia’s signature meals underneath one roof, therefore its title – Halo-Halo.
“True to the restaurant’s origins of its title within the Philippines, we kicked off the Asian Meals Pageant for the 2020-2021 marketing campaign that celebrates the Philippines’ most interesting meals,” mentioned Richard Haddad, chief govt of Jannah Motels & Resorts, which manages Edge Creekside Resort.
The joy of the six classes of Halo Halo Restaurant’s Asian Meals Pageant reverberated among the many UAE group with a bought out, fully-booked areas throughout all classes when the administration launched this system.
Halo Halo Restaurant additionally flew in Filipino celeb chef and Instagram influencer JP Anglo from the Philippines to Dubai for the particular occasion.
Chef Anglo ready mouth-watering dishes from the Philippines with a contemporary twist through the three-day occasion.
Menu objects for the occasion included lechon manok lumpia, grilled shrimp with talangka butter, rooster sisig with rooster pores and skin on high, palabok, kare-kare and beef ribs sinigang to call a number of.
“Filipinos could also be conversant in the style, however the mixture of those menu objects is new.
“That’s our new strategy for creating Filipino meals and bringing it to the subsequent degree.
“It must be out of the field however on the identical time, the contact of house continues to be there,” mentioned chef Anglo.
The chef furthered that he was actually hyped and honoured to have served the abroad Filipino group in Dubai particularly those that haven’t been house for a few years.
He shared that witnessing their pleasure of tasting genuine Filipino meals challenged him to fulfil the cravings of Filipinos who at the moment are residing right here within the UAE.
“I had a objective to convey them again house and make them pleased with Filipino meals.
“If you eat one thing good, it hits the spot.
“I simply needed to do the job first, and now I’m overwhelmed by the optimistic response, by their pleasure.
“I’m overwhelmed, I’m flattered,” added chef Anglo.
“In fact, we prolong our gratitude to the complete Emirati and expat group who’ve joined us in our Pistang Pinoy occasion.
“Relaxation assured that our subsequent Meals Pageant Asian cooks from completely different nation will proceed to serve a style of Asia’s scrumptious with a twist on conventional cuisines,” added Haddad.
The Halo Halo Restaurant group invitations extra expats to get to expertise the flavours of Asia and hopes to have interaction with them for extra upcoming occasions for everybody to take pleasure in.
