Essay About Pililipino Street Festival

I went to the Pilipino Street Festival on October 29th, 2016 at the Bayou City Event Center. I must say that I was totally surprised to see so many people; the place was packed. There was a good environment, music, dance performances, and beauty pageants. Although, I did not feel familiarized at first, I could see that there were people from different cultures and not just Filipinos’ that helped me not to feel constrained. The queue to buy the tickets was quite long. When I arrived to the Bayou Center, I decided to walk a little and take a look at the tents, because there were about twenty of them; in each carp they were offering different products and foods. Seeing people in so many carps offering different products and accessories I connotatively considered the festival as a bazaar. While I was walking, there was a stage where the corresponding activities were being carried out. Around the stage there were tables where the people enjoyed the show while they savored the different plates and drinks. …show more content…
As I mentioned earlier there were people from different cultures. I even consider that the festival itself was not one hundred percent Filipino, because as I walked through the carps, I realized that most of the carps were from the Festival sponsors such as H.E.B., Houston Rockets, Green Mountain Energy, and many others. As for the performances on stage, most of the dances I was able to watch were performed using regular clothes and the songs were American such as: Dance with Somebody, Please Do not Stop the Music, and Ex 's and Oh; s among others. On the other hand, As for the food, there was quite a lot of variety. There were tents where they were selling Filipino 's food and desserts, as well as carps where people feasted on with Mexican and American foods and sweets. The event was a Filipino festival, but I certainly could see many other different