ALAMINOS CITY–Don’t look now but another possible world record in the grill category is being eyed by another Pangasinan city.

At its recent successful Oysters Festival, Alaminos City showcased its extensive oyster production by putting up an oyster grill party as part of Alaminos’ grand welcome for balikbayans who flocked here for the “global homecoming”.

The Oyster Festival, a part of this year’s city fiesta celebration that started last March 11, will help promote the city’s oysters to the world, said Mayor Hernani Braganza

The mayor said no record was established in the year’s oyster party but he vowed that there will be a bigger party next year, a two-kilometer-long oysters’ grill to bid for a possible world record.

“This is just a prelude to a bigger grill party next year to promote our famous oysters,” Braganza told newsmen.

At least eight clusters or more than 70 families directly engaged and benefiting from oyster culture industry    here are involved in the Oyster Festival.

Dr. Ronald Abarra, head of the city veterinary office and chairman of this year’s Agri-Trade and Food Fair, said this early, several entities and balikbayans already indicated their plans to provide portable grills in next year’s Oyster Festival.

The event proved to be a certified crowd drawer as oysters are smoked for few hours while bystanders waited to feast on them.

Oyster farm owners believed that through this festival and continuous support from the city government, the industry will finally flourish.

For his part, the mayor said the city’s goal of having locally-produced oysters  invade other markets outside the province will now be fully attained.

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