Supersized Bulalo Cooked Off at SM Hypermarket Batangas

Every time I heard Bulalo on thing surely get into my mind "MASARAP AT MAINIT NA SABAW" . It's one of my comport food especially when the weather begins to turn cold. As the -ber months continue to get cooler because of Amihan, SM Hypermarket Batangas holds the Bulalo Supersized Cook- Off in an attempt to do something that has never been attempted before - to bring together several bulalo cooks and serve up the largest amount of delicious soup ever to be made in one are at one time over the Bulalo capital of the Philippines Batangas City.

Bulalo has always been the epitome of simplicity - it's just beef bones and vegetables, after all but the same time, it has a richness of flavor and intensity that send people into throes of enjoyment. Even people travel for hours just to get to a prime bulalo restaurant, and will often return to a favorite place over and over again to relive the experience. Batangas bulalo, in particular has been touted to be some of the most delectable fare around, the province being known for quality of its cattle.like me.

Bulalo also has many versions. Almost every cook that makes the dish cooks it in a certain way, adding their own touch to it and modifying it ever so slightly. Just like some of participants of the Supersized Bulalo Cook-Off namely Place of Mine Catering,Hot and Cold Cafe, Ginazel Catering, Le Elegancia, Siemen’s Canteen, Restaurant El Torro, Madelyn dela Pena/Lutong Bahay Karlos Place and Tapa Kalderate Atbp. Hence the second part of the Cook-off goals, other than setting a super-siezed record for the city of Batangas: to showcase the different varieties of bulalo and to find the best tasting one. Click here for more mouth watering bulalo pics

The Cook-off is one of the three components of the SM Hypermarket Master Chefs which began in July 2011. The two other events were a cooking marathon and kitchen makeovers. The marathon was made up of weekly cooking demos held in all stores for three months, and the kitchen makeovers awarded five lucky families with a newly redesigned kitchen furnished by SM Hypermarket and designed by PSID graduates.
At the end of the day, two groups will be announced as winners. The best tasting and most Number of bowls served category which Madelyn dela Pena/Lutong Bahay emerged as the group to have provided the most servings with a total of 165 servings. Each group were required to provide at least 50 servings weighing 100 grams per serving to the delight of the audience.


The winning group early celebrating their upcoming victory during the presentation.

For the best tasting bulalo three lucky judge must endured the high blood pressure and different taste of bulalo was Chefs Aries Cueto and JunJun Borlan Jr. with SM Hypermarket Assistant Manager Jun Lozada to judge the competition. The group with the best tasting Bulalo was Le Elegancia. Both winners will each get 25,000 pesos worth of SM gift certificates and a plaque of recognition from SM Hypermarket.

Batangas Bulalo was the second SM Hypermarket Supersized Challenges. The previous cookoff was held in Pampanga, and served up a whopping 1,775 plates of sisig. It remains to be seen if the cooks of Batangas can outdo the previous record. But even if they do, there are two record-breaking cook-offs to watch out for - Iloilo's Batchol Challenge which been held simultaneously with the Bulalo Cook-Off and the Upcoming Cebu's Bibingka Challenge on November 18.

I would like to say thank you to SM Hypermarket and Nomnom Club for the invite. Bulalo Cook-Off was blast with my fellow foodie bloggers.



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Taste the World with the Appetite Restaurant Festival

Manila, Philippines – October 13, 2011 - In celebration of Appetite’s 7^th Anniversary this October, Appetite Magazine brings back the most delicious event of the year—the Appetite Restaurant Festival 2011! Together with Shangri-La Plaza and MasterCard, Appetite presents a unique dining experience where you can let your taste buds travel all over the world, all in one fabulous place. Foodies can indulge in international cuisines from different restaurants for irresistibly affordable prices!

From October 14 to November 30, 2011, participating restaurants at Shangri-La Plaza will offer specially-created Appetite Menus with an appetizer, entrées and dessert all for under P1000! Check out all the appetizing and mouth-watering meals carefully put together by Café Provencal, Claw Daddy, Cravings, Crustasia, Cyma, C2, Green Tomato, Lemongrass, Pages Deli, Pepper Lunch, Pho Hoa, Secret Recipe and Sing Hainanese Chicken! Enjoy your staple favorites and discover even more delightful dishes with flavors from all over the world. Satisfy your craving for Western cuisine or Eastern delights from the exciting range of restaurants in the Appetite Restaurant Festival.

 

Diners can also avail of additional free treats in C2, Claw Daddy, Green Tomato, Lemongrass, Pages Deli, Pho Hoa and Secret Recipe by presenting a coupon from the November issue of Appetite Magazine when they buy the Appetite Menu in those restaurants. Coupons will also be available at the main entrances and at the concierge of Shangri-La Plaza. Enjoy free parking when you use your MasterCard to spend a minimum of P1000 (including the Appetite Menu) in participating restaurants)! With great deals like these, you’ll want to visit all the restaurants and try the different menus.

Since 2004, Appetite Magazine has been giving its readers the most delicious experience in making and sharing food. Packed with easy, doable and excellent recipes, delectable dining stories and other unique features, it continues to allow people to indulge in their passion for food. The magazine pioneered their first restaurant festival in 2007 called The Tasting Room to treat readers and fellow friends to special degustation menus, inspired by food festivals in New York and London. This year’s Appetite Restaurant Festival is better than ever, as the magazine celebrates a great year with a new editorial board (headed by editor-in-chief Nina Daza-Puyat), a Philippine Webby Award for their website and a nomination for Best Family-Oriented Magazine by the Catholic Mass Media Awards. So many reasons to celebrate, and so much Appetite menus to be enjoyed in the Appetite Restaurant Festival. Happy eating!

 

The Appetite Restaurant Festival is co-presented by Shangri-La Plaza and MasterCard. Per DTI-NCR Permit No. A3- 0890 Series of 2011.

Appetite is a prestige publication of the MEGA Publishing Group. For the latest updates, visit http://www.appetite.ph. Like us on Facebook <facebook.com/appetitemag> or follow us on Twitter <twitter.com/appetitemag>


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My BonChon Chicken Adventure

My  Bonchon Chicken Adventure, Bonchon Chicken was the best chicken in America (as per the New York Times, GQ, and Esquire) -- now in Manila!

It was September 10, 2011 afternoon at  BonChon Ayala Triangle,Makati a blogger event organized by  PR ASIA and Bon Chon 

Got lucky to have an invited from Sir Azrael and have a chance to meet some of the foodie blogger in Manila. I'm not really good on name's but always remember the faces of people  I meet.

To start the BonChon Adventure, first dish is the salad Ginger Tofu Salad.

Fresh lettuce with Tofu, fried siomai wrapper and with julien cut carrots plus the dressing. Every salad have two set of dressing  which you flavor the salad more. Tips Best Shake the Salad with the dressing rather than dipping it.The salad will look messy but it will taste even better.

Next stop the most awaited Bonchon Chicken, It has super crispy skin but not too oily from frying. Bonchon chicken  was cooked using a  Special Cooking Method making it superb. Cooked to order. Healthier fried chicken. Surely, BonChon Chef and crew was well trained to maintain the Quality of every food they serve. I tried the spicy chicken, spicy chicken was specially mark with a toothpick. Bonchon spicy chicken was a must try for chicken lover out their.

From salad and appetizer here come's one more unusual dish from Bonchon Chicken. From the name BonChon Chicken would you think that they also serve fried Calamari. For the calamari you can dipped it to a spicy sauce with cheese. For me this would be a great addition for Bonchon additional variety.










Still have some space for more because after all of that another vegetarian dishes was the next star of the table. A large taco dish with fish fillet and julienne cuts vegetable.

One piece of this taco will surely make you feel full because it almost 200 grams a wild estimate. Tips on eating the Taco add or ask for extra dressing specially the same dressing from calamari dish they taste superb.


Before the Finale people have time to socialize and take picture of everyone. Here some stolen moments from my Samsung camera.
(Left) Scott Tan raffling some Prize for a lucky blogger. (Right) The BonChon Crew Modelling their products.

Azrael picking some chicken click here for more photo

Finally the final dish of the adventure  was a  Rice meal from BonChon Chicken a Beef dish name Bulgogi Rice. Beef teryaki style cooking with a twist of Bonchon techniques. This can be serve with rice or with fresh lettuce calling it Bulgogi Wrap.

I was not expecting that my BonChon Adventure would be this fun. Thank you and see you BONCHON CHICKEN PHILIPPINES.


Note Bonchon Chicken are Best consumed when you order.

For takeout or pick-up: Just open the box to keep it crisp; reheat in the oven or toaster.



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Show your Love and Win

 

Kythe Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of children with cancer through their education and developmental initiatives. With their Child Life Program, the children and their families are given assistance to further understand cancerand provided with fun psycho-social activities to make sure that the kids are able to enjoy their childhood despite their ailments. 

With the willingness to share with this mission, Unilever Foodsolutions partnered with Kythe to roll out the new 5.5L mayo tubs of Best Foods and Lady’s Choice to its operators in a more meaningful manner. Dubbed as the Real Love Campaign, Unilever Foodsolutions and its operators go to outreach programs that have fun healthy sandwich making activities, arts and crafts and storytelling sessions to the kids with cancer in Kythe’s partner hospitals. 

In line with this campaign, Unilever Foodsolutions further shares the opportunity to share Real Love to the public with its official Facebook page. For every “like”, one Real Love sandwich will be given to the pediatric cancer patients in the partner hospitals of Kythe Foundation. 

"Like" the Real Love Campaign page today to contribute to the thousands of Real Love sandwiches that will be given and make a difference in a child's life. 

Unilever Foodsolutions also partnered with Team Manila to come up with a specially designed, limited-edition shirt which will be available in Team Manila outlets in Rockwell, SM Mall of Asia, Trinoma and online through its website, Team Manila Website.

Real Love Shirt by Team Manila

Unilever Foodsolutions shares the experience of giving back to the public as with the retail price of 550 pesos and are available for both men and women in various sizes. Part of the proceeds of the sale of each shirt will go directly to Kythe Foundation and its operations for cancer-stricken kids. 

Shared your love and Win A Team Manila Shirt 

Mechanics

1. Be a fan of  Real Love Campaign Facebook Page

2. Simply complete this sentence and shared it on your Facebook wall “I will share my love to the kids of Kythe by____________” and don't forget to tagged Real Love Campaign Facebook Page 

3.  Leave a comment on this post with your wall post URL and your email address.

4. The best answer after a week will win on Real Love Shirt and it will be mailed to your address. 

5. Winner need to within the Philippines Only. (Extended until end of October)

 

For more information on the Real Love Campaign, Kythe and how you can help, you may call Unilever Foodsolutions at 588-8855 (Metro Manila) or 1-800-588-8855 (outside Metro Manila) or send an email through foodsolutions.philippines@unilever.com. You can also visit Kythe’s official website (http://www.kythe.org/).

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***Unilever Foodsolutions (UFS) one of the leading food service companies in the world which offer branded and tailored solutions to a variety of operators in the country committed to providing cost effective and innovative solutions to its clients.

Just an ordinary day then after opening my email I got an email from Miss Janette and asking me to help out about Real Love Campaign . 

After reading the blog (http://www.influentialblogger.net/2010/09/showing-real-love-for-children-with.html)  I was inspired to write a blog about my experience.  My first encounter about cancer is when my uncle had a Throat Cancer that came from a long term used of cigarette. Everyone is asking him to stop smoking and don't know why he still continue. He only stop when he found out he has throat cancer and that already on 3rd degree. The only option is to remove the affected area to stop the spreading of cancerous cell. We thought everything will be fine after the operation but some of the cancer cell are still left behind. Its was long battle and long medication with Chemotherapy but at the age of 60 his body can't take anymore pain and torture of the medication. 

He passes away and leave us all with wonderful memories of what life is all about. Its all about sharing and giving to others. Hope you can share your love to other specially the kids of Kythe Foundation 

With just one ‘like’, you can make a child with cancer happy.