MUNI Market Day Promotes Healthy, Sustainable Living With A Fun, Community Vibe

Now on its 3rd run, MUNI Market Day continues to bring together mindful merchants and conscious consumers, this time on March 28, 2015, 9AM-5PM at Capitol Commons. True to its mission of providing not just an avenue for sellers, MUNI Market Day continues with its goals to educate guests on how to introduce healthier, more sustainable options into their lifestyle.
Apart from feasting on wholesome food and buying local or eco-friendly products, interested attendees can sign up for workshops on Urban Farming by Bahay Kubo Organics, Plant-based Nutrition by The Superfood Grocer, Vegan / Gluten-Free Cooking by Jertie’s Kitchen, and Indoor Planting by The Green House Project. Also, one of the unique draws or highlights of MUNI Market Day is the selection of musicians who bring a lot of good vibes throughout the event.
MUNI Market Day is brought to you by MUNI, a collaborative community that has been working to promote mindful living through events like this, meetups, forums, or other workshops, design collaborations, and content, which can be found on www.muni.com.ph, or their Muni PH Facebook page.

For more inquiries or possible collaborations, e-mail the Muni team at events.muni@gmail.com, or merchants.muni@gmail.com for interested merchants. For more information visit www.muni.com.ph/MuniMarketDay3.

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Zomato Restaurant Summit 2015

Zomato, the world’s fastest growing restaurant search and discovery service, will organize the first-ever gathering of restaurateurs for the Philippines, the Zomato Restaurant Summit 2015, on May 19 at the Makati Shangri-la Hotel.

Entitled “Conquering the Digital Age,” the Summit aims to tackle interesting opportunities and pressing issues that challenge restaurateurs in today’s digital world.

“This will be Zomato’s first restaurant summit in the Philippines. Our goal is to bring the industry together by creating a platform for all restaurateurs to discuss contemporary topics and discuss the challenges of the business in these digital times,” said Zomato Philippines’ country manager Anton Ojeda.

The Summit includes participation from industry visionaries, venture capitalists, senior marketing professionals and seasoned restaurant owners from all over the country. It will also feature plenary sessions, touching on topics such as the evolution of Filipino restaurants, investing in restaurant businesses—what investors look for, promoting one’s brand in the digital age, crisis management, and the role of technology in restaurant operations.

Breakout sessions, on the other hand, will discuss how restaurant owners can keep their businesses sustainable, and how they can woo the millennials. It will also feature a topic on promoting Filipino food outside the metro and to the world.

Dine with Dad at Tokyo Café

To the man whose strong arms carried you, taught you how to ride a bike, helped you carry your heavy bags, fixed broken things that you needed, protected you, and drove miles for you to see interesting places. For all those great moments when he was at your side―guiding, helping, and teaching you―Dad will indeed always be the first and greatest man in your life.

Tokyo Café celebrates Father’s Day by giving you a chance to treat him to dishes that resemble his prime significance in your life. Because Tokyo Café understands how special he is to you, the Japanese-style family restaurant offers a selection of menus fit for a king―the Wagyu.

This delectable beef, grown from the Wagyu cattle in Kobe, Japan, is considered the premium cut of beef because of its extensive marbling. For years, it is known throughout the world as a notable part of the menu with a globally royal price. Simply put, Wagyu is the Rolls Royce of steaks. And like dads who deserve a power-packed meal to keep them strong, Tokyo Café offers its customers two of its great selections: the Tokyo Wagyu Burger Steak and the Tokyo Wagyu Burger.

Twice the size of a regular beef patty, Tokyo Cafe’s Wagyu Burger steak’s juicy beef

patty oozes with tender goodness and lathered with Japanese steak sauce. Comes with  

a carb-load of baked potato and a crunchy coleslaw salad.

The Tokyo Wagyu Burger Steak has twice the size of a regular beef patty. Tokyo Cafe’s juicy beef patty oozes with tender goodness and lathered with Japanese steak sauce. Freshly prepared and cooked to perfection, the Tokyo Wagu Burger Steak is paired with a carb-load of baked potato and a crunchy coleslaw salad.

Experience the exceptional big and bold flavor of Tokyo Cafe’s Wagyu Burger 

complemented with fried egg, crispy onions, and spicy mayo. Served with a

 scrumptious coleslaw salad and filling French fries.

For dads who opt to experience the exceptional big and bold flavor of burger goodness, the Tokyo Wagyu burger’s Wagyu tender patty is complemented with fried egg, crispy onions, and spicy mayo. Served with a scrumptious coleslaw salad and filling French fries, it also dominates in size and taste.

This distinct experience of indulging in the exceptional taste of premium quality meat with fine grade marbling is available until July 10, 2012. So dads can enjoy it more, Tokyo Cafe is offering a FREE Tokyo Blend or Tokyo Ice only on June 17.

The Tokyo Blend is one of the restaurant’s specialty blends known for its unique art of coffee preparation using the traditional Japanese “drip method.”  It has a naturally light and sweet aroma with a mild body taste. The Tokyo Ice on the other hand is its iced version. 

This Father’s Day, make dad feel like the King that he really is. Order the best at Tokyo Cafe, because like him, Wagyu is one of the best in the world!


Tokyo Cafe branches that offer the menu are located at SM Mall of Asia; SM The Block; Mckinley Piazza; Go Hotel; SM Megamall and SM Southmall.

For more details and information, you may visit www.tokyocafe.com.ph and like their official FB fanpage at facebook.com/tokyocafephilippines. 

Delightful Goodness that is the Pandesal

Waking up with the wafting aroma of pandesal will surely bring back many fond memories. Who can forget dipping and dunking this soft bun into a fresh cup of coffee or chocolate drink before relishing it? Some even enjoy pandesal with condensed milk, especially when the thick milk starts to ooze out from the bread and the urgent need to catch and lick it before it spills on the floor. Simple yet delicious treat.

Among the breads in the Philippines, pandesal is undoubtedly the king as it is an important part of our tradition and culture. Recognizing the need of Filipino consumers for high quality pandesal, Gardenia has made its own version of pandesal using world-class standards to ensure utmost quality in both taste and appearance.

Aside from bringing back happy memories, enjoying the delightful goodness of Gardenia pandesal is always a pleasurable experience.

So how does the Gardenia Pandesal experience start?

It begins the minute you pull one out of a pack—the smell of deliciousness and freshness. You’d almost instantly want to savor on its delightful flavor. The first bite is another story, experiencing the delectable taste the moment you sink your teeth onto its crusty outside yet blissfully soft inside.

One more distinctive attribute of Gardenia pandesal is it’s delicious hot or not. It’s disappointing when the bread you heated becomes hard as a stone when you take it off from the oven. But with Gardenia, consumers are assured that the pandesal will remain tasty, filling and appetizing even after heating or re-heating it, just like the moment you bought it from the supermarket.

Whether with scrambled eggs, fried spam or hotdog, ham, peanut butter, coconut jam, plain good butter or just by itself, Gardenia pandesal could be consumed during breakfast, merienda in the afternoon or late in the evening since it can stay fresh and soft longer, making Gardenia a sure-fire and practical choice for consumers. Plus, Gardenia Pandesal is packed with vitamins and minerals, a bit of news that would certainly bring a smile to Mommies’ faces since they know that every bite of Gardenia Pandesal is good for their kids’ health and nutritional needs.

Consumers are also assured that Gardenia observed strict quality control in the production of its bread products, giving Mommies peace of mind.

For Mommies who want to whip up something for their kids’ merienda or baon that they can enjoy once they go back to school, try making your own by adding tomato sauce and their favorite toppings to an open-faced pandesal and pop it in the oven for that instant, home-made pizza! For office workers, grab a bottle of your favorite soda—or again with coffee—together with Gardenia pandesal for that quick yet tasty break time treat. Longing for palaman for your pandesal, you could always use any savory left-over food from the refrigerator.

To know more about the delicious Gardenia Pandesal and its other bread products, visit www.gardenia.com.ph.

YakitoriQ: The Newest Barbecue Concept in Town

(L-R) Ms. Judy King Tecson, Senior Vice President, BPI,Ms. Sapna A.Uttamchandani, Vice President/Treasurer, Esquire International Financing, Inc.,Mr. Ramon Sy, Vice Chairman, Asia United Bank, Cory Quirino (TV/Radio Host) ,Mr. Timmy G. Tan, Chairman SK Techno-lube Corporation,Allied Bank, Mr. Ashok Uttamchandani, Chairman, Esquire International Financing, Inc.,Ms.Tin Patrimonio (Celebrity, Pinoy Big Brother housemate) , Rajan Uttamdanchani (CEO, Esquire Financing Inc.), Mildred Caballero (President, Tradecon)

Attending  business expos and events is one good way to find out what is the current trend of the industry and innovative products and services in store for the consumer in the future.

Last May 12, the 4th Philippine Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and Franchise Expo with the theme “Grow Your Business” was presented by Tradecon Inc. and Esquire Financing Inc. at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC).

For three days, it brought together various businesses and brands which included franchising, direct selling, retailing and networking. Randell Tiongson, business columnist and financial adviser, and Chinkee Tan, TV and radio host and wealth coach, gave motivational talks on how change in the Filipino mindset can help empower  each one in attaining our financial goals. Esquire Financing, Inc. also presented its service, providing intelligent funding and strategic guidance with its principle that SMEs should never remain SME’s because every business has the brimming capacity to become large. 

One of the highlight of the event was the unveiling of the newest barbecue concept in town: YakitoriQ!

YakitoriQ is the brainchild of entrepreneur-business consultant Mr. Jorge Noel Wieneke III, dubbed “Mr. KaAsenso” of PLDT, and known for his advocacy on entrepreneurial education for those who wish to put up their “mini negosyo” or have plans to expand their business.

Mr. Wieneke was a former advertising guy and was responsible for putting up “Potato Corner,” the country’s first flavored French Fries brand that revolutionized the food cart business. He is also a founding member of the Association of Filipino Franchisers, Inc., one of the biggest franchise associations in the Philippines today, and teaches Applied Entrepreneurship at the Ateneo de Manila’s Center for Continuous Education (CCE).

The company infuses a little modification on the popular yakitori food. Yakitori is a barbeque in Japan that even with the modification is still Japanese food--- on stick, on this case.
 
For only P16 per stick, one can enjoy the real-meat YakitoriQ. One stick with rice is already fulfilling at P26 or you may want to taste the original or American version on two separate sticks with rice for P42. They also introduce chicken isaw, pork isaw and pork tenga in yakitori style.

You can find YakitoriQ starting next month in Victory Mall, MCU, Greenhills shopping center, Tutuban Center, in Food Street, St. Francis Square and Robinson’s Ermita.

Hurom Slow Juicer: The New Paradigm in Juicers

Calling all health buffs who are into dinking fruit juices to complement their nutritious diet!  Actually if you are also an entrepreneur, you can get a few units of this great juicer and it might be the next big thing this summer season :)

Hurom Slow Juicer during the Philippine International Food and Beverage Expo (PIFBEX) held at the PICC Forum 1-3 in Pasay city.  It is distributed here in the Philippines by Zinven International Corp., is another of Hurom L.S. Ltd.'s innovative kitchen appliances that employ cutting-edge technology that resulted from the company's extensive research and development (R&D) efforts.

The overall idea is to bring health and good life to as many people in the world as possible, and this company is definitely on the right track.

Hurom ("human" and "rom" which means "beneficial" in Korean) L.S. Ltd. which was formed more than a decade ago, commits itself to the research, development and well-being of human life through its "juicers" and "juice extractors". And this commitment through its juicer product like the new "Hurom Slow Juicer" that has already reached other parts of the world like Japan, China, the USA and in other countries in Asia and Europe, is finally here in the Philippines.

Part of the "Hurom Slow Juicer's"  unique and distinct characteristics is that it uses its patented "Low Speed Technology System" or LSTS. Compared to other traditional juicers that has high-speed motors and sharp cutting blades, the "Hurom Slow Juicer" and LSTS gently presses (not crushes) the fruit to extract all the fruit's or vegetable's natural juices without losing valuable nutritive value like vitamins, minerals and important enzymes and most of all, its taste.

And its innovative products and extensive experience for more than 3 decades in juice extraction and slow juicing in Korea were recognized by International award-giving bodies and in global invention exhibitions like the 2010 Swiss Geneva Salon International Des Invention and the 2010 Pittsburgh International Invention  Fair (INPEX) where it won the gold medal. It even got a KOTRA (Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency) Seal of Excellence in Korea, a mark of quality, high technology and trustworthiness.

Hurom Slow Juicer is available at Rustan's Department Store and Home TV Shopping. For more details , visit: www.hurom-slowjuicer.com or call 9267782/ 9267786.