Alex Villanueva of Philippine News Agency reported this week that Palawan will aim for the world record on the “longest seafood grill” during the annual Baragatan Festival in June.
Excerpts from the PNA Story:
Baragatan is a convergence and coming together of the people of Palawan to celebrate its history and rich culture which highlight events like trade and food fair, street dancing, cultural shows of different municipalities, the private sector and the ethnic groups.
Palawan, the country’s biggest province and is composed of 1,768 islands and islets surrounded by a coral shelf with an exceptionally rich marine life, wants to land in the Guinness Book of World Records with the feat.
Organizers of Baragatan 2008 are planning to hold the seafood grill activity along the stretch of Rizal Avenue this city.
It could be a celebration of the bounties of the seas, Baragatan festival offers a taste of seafood specialties Palawan is known for, while Puerto Princesa Restaurants prepare a mixture of authentic Palawan seafood cuisine and delicacies, as well as other contemporary seafood-filled culinary delights in the region.
In a research, no previous “longest seafood grill” world record that would be overshadowed, but Palawan aims to establish a record of its own.
But organizers will be guided on the feat of Dagupan City, who holds the “longest Bangus grill” of having grilled over 24,000 pieces of bangus stretching to two kilometers.
During the activity, varieties of fish such as milkfish (bangus), eel and moray (palos, pindangga), grouper (lapu lap), sea bass (apahap), snapper (maya maya), surgeon fish (labahita), slipmouth (sap sap), pomfret (pampano), mackerel (tangingi), sardines (tonsoy, tamban), anchovies (dilis), yellow fin and big eyed tuna (albacore, tambacol), swordfish (malasugi), shark (pating), rays (pagi), blue crabs (alimasag), mangrove crabs (alimango), lobster (banagan), white shrimps (hipong puti), oysters (talaba), green mussels (tahong), giant clam (taklobo), squid (pusit), octopus (pugita), among others will be grilled.
It noted the province supplies an estimated 65 percent of Metro Manila’s fish consumption from the extensive fishing grounds that surround the country’s archipelago. (Alex Villanueva, PNA)
April 14, 2008 at 8:37 am
wow!
April 15, 2008 at 2:41 am
yum, yum!
April 15, 2008 at 9:12 am
fiesta time!!! you need lots of charcoal on it… i hope this would not be another environmetanl issue, eh… hehe… how about biggest grilled seafood?
July 5, 2008 at 10:15 am
aww.. too bad it really rained! i was one of the “grillers” there.. representing the girl scouts of the Philippines.. the facilitators told our sponsors that the grill was going to be canceled because of the heavy rain, so our sponsors went home. then someone announced that it was restarted because the rain stopped and we(GSP&BSP) didn’t have anything to grill!