Lulu Hypermarket Group launched Food Fiesta 2013 at all Lulu outlets on April 17. The festival was officially inaugurated on Wednesday at 7pm at Lulu Hypermarket, Al Khor branch, with Yousaf Aysa Al Fasali and Mohamed Althaf, Regional Director, jointly cutting a cake in the presence of other officials from Lulu Hypermarket Group and senior executives from leading business groups in the retail industry.
Cooking lessons and demonstrations by leading chefs, offering insights into various cooking styles and ingredients of different cuisines, are among the activities planned as part of the food fiesta. Live demonstration of salad making organised by Delicio would be another attraction of the festival.
With a view to ensuring participation of customers, including ladies and children, and making them happy, competitions for eating bananas, ice cream, sandwiches, burgers, nuggets, apples and biriyani, and for drinking juice, flavoured milk, activia laban, besides painting, drawing and henna drawing competitions, have been organised by the management.
All the competitions will take place at Lulu Hypermarket, Al Khor branch. Special counters and kiosks promoting exciting offers on food items, free sampling and tasting, and raffles by Lulu and major suppliers will also be held for the benefit of customers.
Suppliers like Nestle, Majdi, Al Areesh, Halwani and Rio Marie have organised scratch and win and lucky draw promotions as a part of their sales promotion activities.
Special promotions on meat, poultry, seafood, salads, rice and ethnic foods from Thailand, Philippines, Japan and Korea would be a major feature of the promotions.
A Mexican Food Fest, Oriental and Mediterranean Food Fest, Biriyani Bash and Cookery Contest will be held as part of the Food Fiesta.
The two-day Mexican Food Fest is scheduled to start on April 21. The Oriental and Mediterranean food festivals will take place on April 24.
The Biriyani Bash and Cookery Contest are planned for April 28. Selected contestants would be required to prepare the dishes opted for by them at home and bring them to Lulu Hypermarket for assessment by the judges. The contest will be held mainly under categories like meat, chicken, seafood, milk products and fruit carving. The Peninsula
