WAK 2017: Sarawak Heritage Street Food this weekend
KUCHING: There will be a Sarawak Heritage Street Food this Friday to Sunday at the India Street Pedestrian Mall here as an ethnic culinary experience for visitors and locals to sample and enjoy, in conjunction with the What About Kuching 2017.
It aims to promote tourism and enhance culinary arts by encouraging and promoting cultural heritage and diversity, said Datin Dona Wee, one of the five organising committee heads which also include Datin Esther Gerawat Balan, Marian Chin, Laura Bara and Gracie Geikie, at a press conference yesterday.
She said that besides food by different ethnic groups, the committee also aims to promote ‘Made in Sarawak’food products such as Bario Rice, Sambal Cabe Ijo among others, produced by local enterprises.
“We intend to use this event as a showcase for the small entrepreneurs and businesses. For this inaugural street food event under our banner, we hope to attract more than 20 types of stalls and will promote this to the general public. Uber will also be offering a free chicken wing to all fi rst time Uber users,” she said.
For the inaugural event, the India Street Pedestrian Mall was invited as a partner. The committee hopes to rotate the event around various places in order to promote
We intend to use this event as a showcase for the small entrepreneurs and businesses. For this inaugural street food event under our banner, we hope to attract more than 20 types of stalls and will promote this to the general public. Uber will also be offering a free chicken wing to all first time Uber users.
the local products to more people, she said.
She said that each day of the event will feature different culinary workshops under the theme ‘Flour Power’ starting at 6pm and another one at 7pm. The workshops are open to the public on a first come fi rst serve basis and the participants and families can stay to sample the delicacies from the Foochow, Hakka, Teochew, Bidayuh, Malay, Iban, Kayan and Kelabit communities.
On Friday, the workshops are Celorot and Roselle Snow Mooncakes; two sessions on noodle making on Saturday and Senape Buned and Tupik Banuak on Sunday.
“We invite the public to come with friends and families to be part of this inaugural Heritage Street Food event.”
Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah is expected to officiate at the event.
India Street Pedestrian Mall Mangement Committee chairman Dato Wee Hong Seng was present at the press conference.
Datin Dona Wee, one of the five organising committee heads