The Department of Tourism food and travel festival Kain Na! is back and is now ready to serve culinary tourism delights online from Sept. 15 to 18.
(MANILA BULLETIN)
After 12 successful legs in the past two years, Kain Na! 2020, The Blended Edition, continues to be a venue to create awareness and interest in food and farm tourism.
The four-day virtual celebration will feature food tourism exchanges, an online selling platform, digital business training, and e-learning modules.
Despite limited mass gatherings and public events, Tourism chief Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said the DoT pivoted the festival to the digital platform as Filipinos’ love for food never wavered even during this pandemic.
“The eating, food demos, and culinary tourism extravaganza, trademarks of the previous Kain Na editions, will continue online. Kain Na! is our continuing invitation to enjoy and appreciate Filipino food culture. As we reboot the economy we have called upon Filipinos to ‘buy Filipino’,” she said.
“This time around, we urge you all to ‘eat and drink Filipino’, too! Do partake of our local cuisine, agricultural produce, and food and beverage products. Every sip and every bite will help our farmers and food tourism stakeholders recover from this pandemic. This is certainly a fun way to lend our support,” Puyat added.
Among the country’s food tourism destinations previously highlighted by Kain Na! were Bicol, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro City, Pampanga, Laguna, Davao, Bacolod, Manila, Iloilo, and Baguio City.
This year’s edition of the food and travel festival will feature a thematic approach highlighting the country’s distinct Filipino food culture, in which the Philippine coffee, tea, and chocolate will take the spotlight for the month of September. There will also be a variety of virtual talks and activities lined up.
