2013 Bangus Festival starts April 22
THIS year’s Bangus Festival is set to start April 22 with the Bangus ed Karosa parade to be participated in by 13 contingents with decorated floats.
It will be followed by the 101 Ways to Cook Seafoods on April 23 at the People’s Astrodome where professional chefs and skillful students will compete in creating delicacies from bangus and other high-value fishes like malaga, lapu-lapu, shrimp, crab, oyster and clam (lukan).
City Tourism Officer Rose Teng-Mejia said the festival executive committee chaired by Councilor Alvin Coquia opted to use high-value fishes in the cooking contest in line with Mayor Benjie Lim’s thrust to develop “these marine products that cost more in the market to help our fisherfolk earn more.”
Dagupeños will take center stage on April 24 when they compete in the yearly Bangus Rodeo at the Malimgas Market under the sponsorship Feedmix, followed the next day by D’BSL Lechon Festival.
“This year’s D’ BSL Lechon Festival on April 25 is open to the city’s 31 barangays. We’ll give them the chance to develop the skill of roasting pigs to add to their sources of livelihood,” said City Agriculturist Emma Molina.
Various barangays will field their representatives in the colorful Gilon-Gilon Street Dance competition on April 29.
The culminating event on April 30 is the Kalutan ed Dalan or the “Grill on the Streets” with about 800 grills to be lined up at the downtown area.
Each grill is P2,500, which includes four kilos of fresh Dagupan bangus, charcoal, tong, and two 1.5 -liter bottles of Coca Cola.– CIO
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