Trade Shows and EventsLoyalty members get exclusive invitations to graze local eats at Sevens Festival at Lee Gardens

Exclusive eats for rugby fans thanks to Marriott-Rugby 7s F&B pop-up

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Peggy Fang-Roe, chief sales & marketing officer of Marriott International, Asia Pacific with Mike Fulkerson, vice president, brand marketing, Asia Pacific for Marriott International, kick off their third sponsorship of the Hong Kong Sevens.
Peggy Fang-Roe, chief sales & marketing officer of Marriott International, Asia Pacific with Mike Fulkerson, vice president, brand marketing, Asia Pacific for Marriott International, kick off their third sponsorship of the Hong Kong Sevens.

Teams march on their stomachs, and so the partnership has launched an exclusive pop-up F&B promotion in the city at the Sevens Festival at Lee Gardens, for the hotel groups’ loyalty members across Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards.

One of Hong Kong’s biggest annual sporting events, the Hong Kong Rugby 7s (taking place April 6-8), and one of the world’s biggest hospitality companies, Marriott International, are partnering together for the third year. 

Teams march on their stomachs, and so the partnership has launched an exclusive pop-up F&B promotion in the city at the Sevens Festival at Lee Gardens, for the hotel groups’ loyalty members across Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards.

Over the weekends of March 30 to April 2 and April 6 to 8, 10 local dishes will be served up to fans by chefs from Marriott’s Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel, Skycity Marriott Hotel and Marriott Hong Kong Shatin.

The Hakka speciality salt baked chicken thigh will be cooked up by executive chef Suen Kam Sing from the Renaissance, alongside his mini crabmeat tart, washed down with his iced house blend tea smoothie and house blend tea panna cotta.

Easy to eat luxury skewer snacks black pepper Wagyu beef and sautéed prawns with arrowhead mushrooms will be grilled up thanks to executive Chinese chef Leong Kit Man at Skycity Marriott, paired with his nostalgic Ribena based pinecurrant drink. 

Typhoon Shelter style fried pork shank and fried chicken make up the tempting dishes created by executive chef Wan Kam Wai from Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Shatin, with his R7 drink, denoting the rugby event and 7-Up based mocktail.

“Great food is one of the best ways to bring people together anywhere in the world and nowhere is this more apparent than in Hong Kong,” said Ralph Frehner, vice president, food and beverage, Asia-Pacific, Marriott International.

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