{"id":2252,"date":"2019-02-02T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2019-02-02T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T13:05:49","slug":"sri-lankan-food-festival-serena-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/sri-lankan-food-festival-serena-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKAN FOOD FESTIVAL @ SERENA ISLAMABAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Feb 01, 2019: The High Commissioner of Sri Lanka, HE Noordeen Mohamed Shaheid inaugurated a two days Sri Lankan Food Festival with a press conference held at the Islamabad Serena Hotel. Two extraordinary star chefs were invited from Sri Lanka to re-create the extraordinary flavours of Sri Lanka in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>HENoordeen Mohamed Shaheid, said, \u201cThere is a saying the way to a man\u2019s heart is through the stomach. I believe food can help bring the people of two countries together. This is the philosophy that has encouraged us to arrange this festival with Serena\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2254\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3278\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04.jpg 3278w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04-696x510.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04-1068x782.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/04-574x420.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3278px) 100vw, 3278px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2255\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3093\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05.jpg 3093w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05-696x540.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05-1068x829.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/05-541x420.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3093px) 100vw, 3093px\" \/>The line-up of chefs for the Festival is star studded, as Serena Hotel welcomes Mr. Ranaweera Senior Chef De Partie who has versatile experience by working in many star graded hotels in Sri Lanka as well as abroad. His expertise is in Sri Lankan Cookery and he is very well acknowledged by the guests who frequently patronize the hotels which he has worked in. He has also Participated at the \u201cSri Lankan Food Festival\u201d organized by the Consulate General of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Karachi, Pakistan in February 2018.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2253\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3519\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07.jpg 3519w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07-696x475.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07-1068x728.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/07-616x420.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3519px) 100vw, 3519px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Michel Galopin, General Manager of Islamabad Serena Hotel, said \u201cWe are delighted to be able to bring internationally flavoured delights to Pakistan. Familiarity with other cultures, cuisines and characteristics is a way to experience the rest of the world and Islamabad Serena Hotel is delighted to welcome master chefs from Sri Lanka to bring authentic Sri Lankan cuisine to our guest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan cuisine is mix of historical and cultural factor and influenced from different regions including South India, Indonesian and Dutch Cuisines. Some of the Staples of Sri Lankan cuisine is rice, coconut and spices. Some basic ingredients and cooking techniques make Sri Lankan dishes hearty and spicy, particularly real cinnamon, black pepper, cardamom, curry leaves and chili peppers. All these ingredients are quite same and mostly used in Pakistani cuisine as well, so I am sure that the guests will also love the Sri Lankan cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Feb 01, 2019: The High Commissioner of Sri Lanka, HE Noordeen Mohamed Shaheid inaugurated a two days Sri Lankan Food Festival with a press conference held at the Islamabad Serena Hotel. Two extraordinary star chefs were invited from Sri Lanka to re-create the extraordinary flavours of Sri Lanka in Islamabad. HENoordeen Mohamed Shaheid, said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,35,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}