The 6th Panyu Tourism Culture and Food Festival will take place from October 1st to 5th. According to officials of the Tourism Bureau of Panyu District, the 6th session presents not only cuisine but cooking contests, paintings and calligraphies, comic and animation and art performances.

In terms of the planning, the festival is to be held simultaneously at Panyu Plaza - the primary venue where over 100 booths will be featured - and eight scenic sites in the district. 40 Panyu-based catering enterprises will attend the festival. Delicious foods will be made available to tourists at all these venues. Besides, they will be able to enjoy those fantastic cooking contests concerning both Chinese and Western cuisines at Panyu Plaza. As usual, a food contest will be held for gastronomists and tourists to decide which western or Chinese food is what they prefer most.

Cultural elements will be the highlight of this event which aims at presenting Lingnan culture to tourists through games, exhibitions and performances in relation to animation and games, art, photography, paintings and calligraphies, lion dances and lanterns.

                      

2007 Panyu Tourism Culture and Food Festival (epanyu.com)