Bacolod to Hold First Chicken Inasal Festival
May 2, 2009 by Glady
Filed under Bacolod City, Featured, Festivals & Fiestas
When it comes to chicken inasal, nobody can boast being the Manokan Country more than Bacolod City. To celebrate Bacoleños love for inasal, the first Bacolod Chicken Inasal Festival is slated on May 15-20 at the Manokan Country and the SM City North Wing vacant lot.
Chicken inasal is a form of barbecued chicken specific to Bacolod. Manokan Country located near SM City is an area in the city filled with inasal stalls with rustic ambiance that has become a tourist attraction.
The people responsible for creating the Manokan Country and those who helped catapult inasal into national prominence shall be given recognition during the opening ceremonies on May 15. They include former Bacolod Mayor Jose Montalvo and Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia, who was then the tourism officer of Negros Occidental. Other awardees are actor Joel Torre and film director Peque Gallaga for their contribution in introducing inasal to Manila; Jun Tanalgo, who owns 23 branches of Bacolod Chicken Inasal in Makati and Manila; Edgar Sia, the owner of Mang Inasal, among others.
The city will attempt to have the Inasal Festival break into the Guinness Book of World Records by staging the longest grilled chicken barbecue in the world. It was reported that City Councilor Alex Paglumotan said this year’s Inasal Festival targets up to six kilometers of chicken barbecue line to establish the record that would involve 18,000 chickens, each quartered and skewered for a total of 72,000 sticks of chicken barbecue. He estimated that the whole event would also require up to 20,000 sacks of charcoal for the grill and 18,000 to 20,000 volunteers to grill the chicken.
That’s a lot of chicken inasal to consume. But with the threat of a swine flu pandemic, who needs pork?
The Bacolod Chicken Inasal Festival is going to be an annual event since the City wil register it with the Department of Tourism as one of the festivals in the country.
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@ Tikalon…. Agree..
Bacolod Chicken Inasal is cooking their’s on LPG fired grillers… (I think)… so that they can have access inside the malls here… which would balk at the idea of using charcoal in cooking vast amounts of chicken… (too smoky) … so the “inasal” they serve is pale… tasteless…. and sometimes raw..
Mang Inasal….. never mind.. (I’ll eat at KFC nalang!)
hay nako….kfc???
cholesterol!
wag ka nlang kumain
yun yun eh
peace man!
Exactly!!! ….. I’d much prefer cholesterol over mang inasal …
Peace!
Hi Glad,.,r pix last Inasal Festival ara sa Flickr,..search for brentpigar@yahoo.com
Hello there Brent! Thanks gid gwapo. Hmmm… Upod ka sa bloggers networking sa July 4 ha.
hay….na miss ko ang inasal ah
when pako kapuli sa bacolod man…miss ko na kaon inasal magpuli q dri ko e treat akon family
wish manggaranon ko ma patindog ko own restaurant di amo ni ang main menu ko chicken inasal…hahhahahah
Cook ka na lang chicken inasal.
see yah bacolod….see u nxt year or few more years pa….
waaaah..i miss bacolod! hohohoho
i wat to go home na to eat mang inasal sa SM with my family and friends…see you when i see you