We’ve attended the past 3 years of Oishi Snacktacular in 3 different locations in Metro Manila and this time around, they’re brining the fun down south to – Festival Mall in Alabang!

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Our favorite Oishi Snacktacular is back and it’s about to get even more exciting as we power up its return this season!

Oishi Snacktacular 2016 fun-filled affair will be held at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall this coming July 15 until July 17 showcasing interactive booths, favorite snacks, and Oishi’s iconic Team O members – Daniel Padilla, Kathryn Bernardo, Ramon Bautista, Alex Gonzaga, Slater Young, and Elmo Magalona!

Catch the Team O members also on Facebook Live! Here’s the schedule:

Aldub’s Maine Mendoza Joins Team O Members

Oishi Snacktacular 2016

This year’s Oishi Snacktacular innovative booths is inspired by 8-bits; flashback Mario Bros years!

Be as inventive and imaginative at the Make Your Own Snack Booth, O-Twirl, Snack Shack and refreshing Slush C+.

Crowd favorite Oishi Snack Catcher will be back as well as you get strapped up and guided to an enormous pool of Oishi snacks and grab all the treats you can take with your own hands!

Oishi Snacktacular Booths in SM Mall of Asia Music Hall

Apart from the return of some of the classic booths, get ready for new and exciting activities! Prepare yourself for Cuckoo Blaster: catch as many balls as possible with your Cuckoo suit on.

Moreover, it’s the 70th year of Liwayway Marketing Corporation, the company behind Oishi with the World of O,Wow booth! Get a glimpse of Oishi snacks that are unique to other countries such as Pillows Buko from Vietnam, Pods Manchurian Style from India and more!

To turn up the O, Wow factor even more, Maine Mendoza, Oishi Ribbed Crackling’s endorser will be introduced as Team O’s newest member. With #OishiSnacktacular you’re sure to emerge a winner.

See you at the Oishi Snacktacular 2016!

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See you in SM Mall of Asia this weekend for the Oishi Snacktacular 2016!

It’s the start of the weekend once again! Aside from the proverbial cheers of getting a time-off from work, this is also the time we dine out with friends or simply spend time with the family at home for a hearty meal. Continue reading →

Eastwood Central Plaza rocked as Oishi claimed a night of music by announcing its very own The Marty’s Band.

Ramon Bautista as Host and judge

Starting from young aspiring musicians from different universities around the Metro submitting their online auditions, the Final 8 proved themselves in deserving their respective spots. The Marty’s Band was after all a creation of the people together with a diverse pool of judges: comedian Ramon Bautista, Rock Ed founder Gang Badoy, actress Saab Magalona, music composer Francis De Veyra and rocker-director RA Rivera.

Marty’s Fancy Guitar

Oishi, maker of Marty’s Cracklin’ vegetarian chicharon spearheaded the event and made sure their tasty crunch was felt having Ramon Bautista as host made it livelier as he drew energy out of the supporters.

Paving the way in announcing the winners was a rocking roster of local bands. But to start things off and to set the night’s tone, the finalist performed their debut song, “Chicharock Chicharoll.” This was intensely followed by Gracenote, Banda ni Kleggy, Ebe Dancel and 6 Cyclemind.

Judges RA Rivera, Gang Badoy and Francis De Veyra (without Saab Magalona)

As the Final 8 were called on-stage, one could see the anticipation in the finalists’ faces knowing that only 4 of them would be part of the Marty’s Band. The prizes lined-up includes P 100,000 each and the full band experience under one of the most reputable band management groups in the industry. The Top 4 would include a vocalist, Lead Guitarist, Bassist and a Drummer. The crowd made sure that their favorite finalists felt the support and possibly what is yet to be their careers.

Oishi Marty’s Crowd

The Marty’s Band

Finally the winners were announced having Sud Ballecer as vocalist (University of Santo Tomas), Nokie Dalangin as Lead Guitarist (De La Salle University), Bam Butalid as Bassist (Asia Pacific College) and Christian Malubay as Dummer (STI). Oishi made the crowd go for an extra O, Wow! moment as Eunice Grace Gatdula (Asia Pacific College) was also announced as a surprise winner and the fifth member of the band, receiving the People’s Choice Award.

Final-8-Martys singing ‘Awit ng Kabataan’

The Marty’s Band Winners- Sud Ballecer (vocals), Eunice Gatdula (peoples choice award), Nokie Dalangin (lead guitarist), Bam Butalid (Bass)

Pedicab

In the end, the final 8 gave their parting words capped by performances from Pedicab and Radio Active Sago Project, the band of their mentor, Francis De Veyra. Kudos to The Marty’s Band!

I have loved the Smart C+ beverage since it first came out in the market. In fact, I already blogged about Smart C+ highlighting its Vitamin C content way back in 2011.

Smart C+ Everyday!

Until today, Smart C remains to be my favorite ready-to-drink juice. I like that it is not similar to the usual juices we have in the market nowadays which are just overly-hyped and overly sweet.

A few days ago, we got another surprise from Oishi  emphasizing Smart C+ as a healthy drink to boost the immune system for everyday drinking. It  is also the company’s first venture in the ready-to-drink category.

Slater Young of PBB

“…refreshing way to boost your immune system – Smart C+ Fruit Drink. With 500mg of Vitamin C in every 500ml bottle, you can cope with the daily demands of your life which then makes you unstoppable and ready whenever, wherever.“

They also introduced Slater Young, the latest Pinoy Big Brother Big Winner, as their newest celebrity endorser.

Smart C+

Smart C+ comes in three thirst-quenching flavors – Lemon Squeeze, Orange Crush, and Pomelo Grapefruit – the last one is my favorite!

One 500ml bottle’s 500mg Vitamin C is equivalent to either 11 lemons, 8 oranges, or 4 grapefruits! Vitamin C also enables the body to produce collagen, a protein essential to every cell of the body.

Moreover, Smart C+ contains no added preservatives, zero artificial coloring and zero artificial sweeteners. It also comes in 350 ml PET bottles and soon in 1 liter bottles. How about you, have you tried Smart C+?

Oishi has been a long established snack brand in the Philippines. It was one of the few I grew up with as a child when there were only a handful of snack brands in the market.

Oishi Kirei

Years forward, NomNom Club was invited the other day for Oishi’s new campaign/slogan – “O Wow!” It’s long withstanding snacks like the Oishi Prawn Crackers & Kirei  and the newer ones like the Gourmet Picks, Baked Porky Pops (which I just tried last week off the grocery shelf), Marty’s Cracklin’ , the ultra sweet Pillows, Bread Pan, Oishi Potato Fries, and Wafu were all presented in an “O Wow” way.

Baked Porky Pops

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The Oishi Prawn Crackers brought back a lot of childhood memories but among the Oishi products, Smart C has been my favorite in the beverages line. It’s not too sweet like other bottled juice and tea drinks.

Oishi Prawn Crackers

Among the snacks, the Gourmet Picks is almost always a staple in our grocery cart while Oishi Wafu wafer stick is my personal sweet indulgence – highly recommended. 🙂

Also getting my thumbs up are the Oishi Potato Fries (for being baked, not fried) and Marty’s vegetarian chicharon that’s almost as good as it’s sinful pork counterpart.

Marty's Cracklin'

Finally making in the NomNom’s a-list is the Bread Pan (photo above) whenever I wanted a quick toast-bread-fix matched with some jam. 🙂

Two more of my favorites which I did not see that day was Marty’s Baconette Strips and Oishi Ridges. Something I forgot to ask the people from Oishi.

Elmo for Oishi

Elmo Magalona: New Oishi Celebrity Endorser

In the finale of the Oishi-O-Wow presentations, their newest product celebrity endorser was revealed in the personality of Elmo Magalona, the son of the late Francis Magalona – an icon in the Philippine music industry.

Still in his teen years, Elmo represents Oishi’s energetic and dynamic product line from beverages to the variety of its unique snacks.

Oishi ‘O Wow’
Website: http://oishi.com.ph/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/oishi.ph

Elmo Magalona: New Oishi Snacks Celebrity Endorser

It’s good to see a long-established brand like Oishi continually developing itself and keeping abreast with the times and its market. Oishi deserves it’s own “O, Wow!” 🙂

They suddenly came and so it was – a package of Oishi snacks and Smart C+ juice drinks that is. 🙂

It came as a surprise and seemingly sent anonymously but obviously from Oishi. 🙂 Perhaps it’s a gesture of gratitude for my write-up on Smart C+ a few months ago.

Baconette Strips from Oishi

I was also glad as the snacks include one of my favorite snacks – Baconette Strips. It’s bacon-flavored but is non-meat. It’s a fitting snack for those observing the Lenten season.

Marty’s Cracklin' Vegetarian Chicharon

Next is the Marty’s Cracklin’ Vegetarian Chicharon. It’s chicharon goodness that is healthy.

And of course, the Smart C+ juice drink which I wrote about before.

Thanks Oishi! It was a delicious surprise!

With a number of ready-to-drink juices around, from tea-based concoctions to natural fruit juices, consumers are faced with a lot of choices like C2 Green Tea, Yin Yang Cooling Tea, Minute Maid Pulpy, and the new Smart C+.

This could be confusing sometimes, but it could also be good since there are more options.

But Smart C+ health drink, a newcomer, focuses on providing one particular aspect – Vitamin C. A box of Smart C+ was sent to our house a few days ago and so I tried it.

Smart C+ Juice Drink

Vitamin C

Mind-breaking school work, stressful jobs, intense sports, late night parties, and the toxins such activities produce is what SmartC wanted to address with its high content of Vitamin C. Just like me who wear multiple hats as a college instructor, online PR consultant, and professional blogger, 24 hours a day is lacking. With a few hours of sleep amidst all that, I certainly need a good dose of Vitamin C. Add to that Smart C+ as well. 🙂

Read the Label

But I’m not the type of person who easily submits to advertisements and gives the nod. Read the label. A quick read reveals its “Vitamin C 320%“. It means that each 500ml bottle contains 500mg of Vitamin C or more than three times the recommended daily allowance (RDA)- I believe that’s more than enough. 🙂

SmartC+: Reading the Label

The Science Behind

We all know that Vitamin C can protect the body and help the immune system recover with the provision of anti-oxidants. But going a little deeper into the biological and chemistry side of things, a low vitamin C in the body means weaker collagen. Collagen provides our cells with strength, flexibility, and resilience to bind tissues, skin, muscles, and other areas. Vitamin C then helps the body to produce and maintain the needed collagen to assist cells recover from it’s daily and usual functions.

Smart C+ Flavors: Lemon Squeeze, Orange Crush, & Pomelo Grapefruit

Other nutrition facts include 110kilo energy calories. Those on a wight-monitoring frenzy would be happy about the zero fat (both saturated and trans fat) content as well. Oishi’s Smart C+ has natural fruit juice and no preservatives added, no artificial coloring, and no artificial sweeteners.

3 Flavors

Smart C+ natural juice drink comes in three flavors: Lemon Squeeze, Orange Crush, and Pomelo Grapefruit. The Lemon Squeeze flavor is indeed on the citrus side. But if you prefer something fruity, choose  the Pomelo Grapefruit flavor. This is also my favorite among the three.

The Orange Crush flavor is somewhere between the two. 🙂 Best when served chilled, the 500ml bottles in the photos are good for two glass servings each. Check out www.keepupwithsmartc.com for more details about Smart C+. They’re also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/oishi.smartc.

Check out this Smart C+ TVC video in YouTube:

So don’t just take in the overly-sweet juices just because it tastes delicious. Ask your self if it’s actually beneficial or will it just overload you with sugar. Be ‘smart‘ with what you put in your body, consider and try Smart C+, I did. 🙂