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- Food Festival: La Tomatina : La Tomatina is a famous festive event that takes place every summer in the Valencian town of Buñol. Lorries dump 4000 tonnes of overripe pulpy semi-rotten tomatoes in the town hall plaza, already packed with eager participants, divided into two (2) teams. These proceed to hurl the tomatoes at each other in a scarlet orgy of destruction, and great fun is achieved by all.

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- Food Festival : Safza Sar : Safza Sar literall means "green head", refers to the crop sprouting festival in Shimsal

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- Food Festival : Shegd-tar-charaman : Shegd-tar-charaman refers to a festival in Shimsal celebrating the moment when the new crop is taken to the threshing place

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Tagam is a sowing festival in Shimsal

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- Food Festival : Tarkhun yundak : Tarkhun yundak is an invitation to a banquet in Shimsal.

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- Food Festival : The Laba Rice Porridge Festival : The Laba Rice Porridge Festival is a traditional Chinese Festivals and one of the ways to celebrate it is eating Laba rice porridge.

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- Food Festival : Vichhosh : Vichhosh refers to Shimsal's outdoor soup festival. It is also known as Hoshigarm

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The peach, Prunus persica (L.) Batsch, is native to China.

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Aida refers to the Opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi ( 1813-1901) noted patron of the Maison Doree in Paris. Casimir-Moisson, President of the First Culinary Academy created in the honor of Giuseppe Verdi dishes like Iced bombe called "Bombe Aida"; Turbot; Salad

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- Food History: Douzhi (Mung bean Milk) : Beijing has a long history of making mung bean milk. As early as in the Liao (907-1125) and Song (960-1279) dynasties, mung bean milk was very popular. Local people of Beijing love to drink

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