There’s no doubt about it - this year’s Oktoberfest is going to be the longest, grandest, most exciting celebration of beer in the world. For one thing, it’s not just going to last during the month of October. The 2008 Oktoberfest is going to last 120 or four whole months. And to cap off the occasion, San Miguel is releasing a limited number of San Miguel Oktoberfest beer.
Remember the last bloggers Buhay Coke party?
There’s another bloggers’ party!
What: Buhay Coke Vlog Contest Announcement of Winners Party
When: August 8, 2008, Friday, 6:00 p.m. onwards
Where: Taste Asia at the Mall of Asia
Wassup?: Announcement of winners and just simply to parteeh the Taste Asia way!
How: Register here.
There’s room for 500 people! So kindly spread the word too!
Last month, I was bitching about how ultra-trendy fast food restaurant Pepper Lunch failed to live up to the hype of “cooking your own food.” It’s a shame, because that was pretty much the most interesting thing about the place; otherwise, it’s basically your standard, run-off-the-mill steakhouse where food is served twice as fast and costs thrice as much.
If what you want in a restaurant is the novelty of cooking your own food to suit your tastes, then I highly suggest that you make a trip to Healthy Shabu Shabu.
One of the highlights of the Carnation and Appetite Magazine’s Family Food Trip 2008 was to meet the elusive William “Billy” King. I’ve heard so many good things about Billy King. From 1990 to 2002 he was at the helm of the Le Soufflé restaurants as its executive chef. Unfortunately, Billy King did not make an appearance at any of the meals he prepared for the media.
Though not present, I already had an idea about his cooking. Chef Billy King describes his way of cooking as “Clean and neo classic.” Bloggers and media got a feast of some milk-based dishes prepared by the renowed chef.
Friday Dinner at the Camp John Hay Manor
Dine and I get ready for our dinner
The array of the dishes looked very tempting as we took photos of them.
Here is a sampling of some of the dishes.
Even before I received the invite to join the Carnation Family Food Trip tour, Carnation Milk has always been my milk brand choice when I use milk to prepare white sauce or any milk-based dish. And why not? My favorite cookbook is Let’s Cook with Nora by Nora Daza. For some reason, she always puts Carnation Milk when indicating the milk ingredient. After experimenting with Nora Daza’s recipe, the Carnation Milk brand has been ingrained in me for the past 30 years.
The idea of a Carnation Food Trip was definitely going to be one big food adventure.
The Carnation and Appetite Magazine’s Family Food Trip 2008 was an out-of-town two-day jaunt which brought together and transported 60 delegates, composed of press, guests, bloggers and representative from Appetite and Carnation to Northern Luzon for them to have a taste of specially concocted milk-based dishes from up north.
Part of the Carnation Family Food trip in cooperation with Appetite Magazine was the Grand Handaan at the Burnham Park held July 26 at around 1:00PM. Despite the rainy and chilly weather, the Grand Handaan still pushed through. Instead on the grassy park, the booths were moved to the Burnham Park stage.
Aside from the food bloggers and writers of various publications , 10-Baguio based winning families via a radio promotion and the Baguio society people also took part of these festivities.
I like the idea of food exhibits where the various delicacies or dishes can be sampled.
I was just so full from the scrumptious lunch prepared by Chef Billy King at the Camp John Hay Manor that I couldn’t take part of this “Grand Handaan”. I just watched the families as they enjoyed the feast. They managed to sample dished from Vigan, La Union, Ilocos Norte, Ilocs Sur, Pangasinan, Benguet, Pampanga and Bulcan.
I had mentioned before that Coke Zero doesn’t taste any different from other diet sodas. But after eating out at restaurants and getting served Coke Zero because they don’t normally carry Diet Coke anymore, I developed an acquired taste for the reformulated sugarless cola drink. I still think that normal Coke tastes better than Coke Zero, but that’s already a given because sugar automatically makes anything unhealthy taste superior to its healthier counterpart.
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