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Do You Know What You’re Eating?

Yes, it is “kare-kare”, ”adobo”, ”steak”, ”cola”, etc. but do you know why you eat these foods and what are these foods? Yes you know I know but do you really know?

What I am trying to say for example is do you really know that the pineapple juice you order, bought and drank either on a food chain, restaurant o supermarket is a real pineapple juice? You can never say, is not it unless you are the one who prepare it.

What if the label says that the products you have bought is a pineapple juice and is you really convince that it is indeed a real pineapple juice only because its color is yellow and taste as if the real juice of pineapple fruit? I know this is so absurd but what can we do if some food manufacturers could “fake” the real foods that we eat and drink using high-tech technology in order they could profit more from us financially? In lieu with this, thus there is a government department that ensures the safety and the health advantage we could get from the food we order or buy from our trusted food stores and food dining stores. However, the nutritional information feed to us consumers on product labels is very insufficient guide on our healthy eating regimens and sometimes could mislead us and end up us into malnutrition. For there are still people around the world who got sick and diseased from the foods they ate, like the cereal products which are recently reported to have cause diabetes whereas on the labels of these cereal products it speaks its nutritional value like cereals have fiber ,B vitamins, etc. which are beneficial to our well-being-ness. Moreover, not only processed manufactured foods but also on the foods served on restaurants and food chains. How the dining consumers can knew that the food they ordered for dining are really clean, safe and nutritious? We could never tell unless we ask “What’s in my food?”

Yes, according to the recent survey reports conducted by Unilever Food Solutions on seven countries that most people around the world were demanding from food manufacturers and restaurants to provide them more real information on “what’s in their food” they bought, eat and drink or ordered when dining in.

The target of the survey was especially on food dining establishments like restaurants and food chains wherein dining consumers were demanding that chefs and food servers should provide them information on the food they ordered; of where they get the ingredients, of what nutritional value they could get on this meal they order, etc.

The Unilever Food Solutions Philippines aside from the seven countries where the survey is conducted, will provide this consumer demands on all restaurants in the Philippines; that the chefs and food servers will provide information on every meal a consumer will order in order the consumers could watch their health while dining out.

This is really great idea that whenever you order a meal on a restaurant or food chain, a chef or a food server should explain to you what nutritional value you could get from the meal you have ordered and will dine-in in their restaurant or food chain. I hope this plan of Unilever Food Solutions Philippines will materialized sooner on all Philippine restaurants and food chains and all restaurant and food chain owners will agree to this idea of Unilever Food Solutions so that Filipinos also could have health-conscious meal time even when they dine out from their respective homes or houses and could promote health consciousness among Pinoys.

Dine and Help

Cook for a cause? Almost every one of us has a reason why we cook and the most common reason is to eat hot food or simply to eat; we cook to eat. But in restaurants and food chains, of course they don’t eat what they cook, rather we customers eat what they cook, is not it?

However, we do not eat what they cook for free, is not it? Rather we buy what they cook. So also in our respective homes, we buy what we eat yet we eat for free what we cook in our own kitchen though we buy the food uncooked.

In food establishments like restaurants and food chains, they have a main constant reason why they cook, that is of course, they cook to have money. They cook delicious food for you and from them to get money from your pocket in exchange for the food they cook which you eat. For this is a trade in food business.

InterContinental Hotel Manila have took food business into charity works by gathering all eight best chefs in the Philippine food industry to cook for a charity cause for Children’s Hour and WFF Philippines.

The eight best chefs are chefs Jessie Sincioco, Marc Aubry, Roland Sager, Roland Lutz, Patrick Fournes, Billy King, Cyrille Soenen, and Christian Pirodon. Each luxurious meal cost 15,000 pesos wherein the guests for the one night dinner are wealthy people of course.

What is cooking in the kitchen of Pampanga Philippines why it was dubbed as “The Culinary Center of the Philippines”? Pampanga foods is indeed one of the best well cooked food in the Philippines, thus Pampanga Philippines was crown with it. Moreover, not only it is the national chef of the Philippines but it is also called “the Christmas lantern capital of the Philippines” and “Christmas capital of the Philippines”. For beautiful large Christmas lanterns are being made on it and having a festival about it every Christmas season.

Pampanga Philippines is located at Northern part of the Philippines at the heart or center of Luzon region. Pampanga Philippines was once become the main capital of the Philippines during the British invasion of Manila Philippines for two years.

Aside from delicious dishes Pampanga Philippines is well known, it is also have tourist attractions that one should visit. For example, the famous Pampanga swam, the “Candaba Swam and Wild Duck Sanctuary” at Candaba Pampanga where you could witness a multitude of different species of birds. Which some birds migrated from the neighboring countries of the Philippines.

After a sight seeing at Pampanga’s famous swam lets take a scroll and have a dive in the freezing water of another famous tourist spot in Pampanga – the Ecological semi –resort Mt. Arayat Park located at Arayat, Pampanga. Within it there is the so- called 100 steps which leads into the upper side of the mountain wherein you could see the whole view of Pampanga, as well as if you like you could tread up on the very top of the mountain. Furthermore, though this resort park is on the foot of Arayat Mountain, its waters are really freezing cold. However some tourists who visit it still enjoy swimming in it. Another famous park in Pampanga is the Bayanihan Park or formerly known as the Astro Park where it is the entrance toward another famous historical location in Pampanga, the formerly united States Air Force Base – the Clarkfield Pampanga. Within the park, there are a lot of nightclubs and hotels where lot of foreign tourist flocks.

There are a lot of parks and historical landmarks we could go here in Pampanga Philippines but wait a minute let us dine in into the kitchen of this national chef. Lets taste the Pampanga’s famous meat foods such as the pork and chicken tocinos, the longaniza (which is said to be the Philippine-styled sausage), the beef tapa, the hot dogs, the relleno, the embutido, the lechon,the bulanglang, and the sisig baboy. Let’s also taste their sweet delicacies like turones de casoy, buro, pastillas and many others. For we heard that Pampanga’s foods not only the Filipinos enjoy, but also a growing number of foreign tourists enjoy the Pampanga’ cuisine. Philippines national chef really captures every one’s tastes.

Pampanga Philippines is one of the best places in the Philippines in terms of culinary side, if you are planning to have a food trip adventure in the Philippines. Do not forget to bookmark Pampanga Philippines in your food trip adventure plan when you are planning to pay a visit to the Philippines whenever you wanted to.