Ningbo Food Festival to be held

Category: Ningbo Business
Published: Monday, 07 November 2011 20:20

The annual Ningbo Food Festival is approaching. On October 31, news came from the press conference for 2011 Ningbo Food Festival that the Festival will be held from November 5 to 14, with its opening ceremony and main activities landing in Ningbo Century Oriental Plaza.

In order to display the classical food, to promote famous brands and to benefit the citizens, the organizing committee of the festival planned 15 theme activities focusing on high quality food and humanistic food to make the whole festival a worthwhile event for all those present.

Food itself always plays the leading role in the Food Festival. From November 5 to 7, the 2011 Quality Food Exhibition will be held in Ningbo Century Oriental Plaza. In the exhibition, selected dishes from restaurants and star-rated hotels and well-known snacks from all over the country will be displayed for sale. During the session, some grand restaurants and hotels in Jiangdong District will jointly carry out the large-scale promoting activity of "quality food carnival in Jiangdong District". Besides, from November 11 to 13, the hotels in Jiangdong District will offer special concessions to their customers by putting off the check-out time from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock pm.

A range of theme activities will be held in this year's festival in order to popularize the food culture. The theme handbook for the 5th Food Festival titled "Taste, Delicacy and Charm" will be published. An exhibition of food action arts and a painting and calligraphy exhibition with famous local masters present will be held.

During the session of the festival, the department stores and supermarkets in Jiangdong District will engage in such theme activities as supermarket festival and treasure hunting activity. The planned "Triple-river Business Conference Base" will be unveiled in the festival. All these activities are sure to make this year's Food Festival a glamorous event.