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Coming from a Chinese family myself, the traditional mid-autumn celebration of Chinese Mooncake Festival is celebrated in at least some way or the other. In previous years, we did play the traditional Mooncake dice game with prizes among family members.

Chinese Mooncake Festival

Although, we won’t be having one this year, it is comforting to know that the Mooncake tradition is still alive in most Chinese communities.

“With a delicious tradition rich in history, the festival is strongly associated with the Moon Goddess of Immortality. It also represents the time of the year when the moon is at its fullest and marks the end of the harvest. It is traditionally celebrated with dances, moon viewing parties, and of course, partaking of mooncakes.“

Like in Resorts World Manila (RWM) in Newport (Pasay City), the next three days’ celebrations focuse on the Chinese culture surrounding the Mooncake Festival. They have actually started these since last month with the Mooncake redemption promo. Casino slot machine players may use points earned from August 22 to September 24 to take home up to three mooncakes a day. 200 Mooncakes are available for redemption throughout the promo period.

Moncake Festival at the Resorts World Manila - Maxims Hotel

Mooncake Promo Mechanics (Clikc to Enlarge)

From September 22 to 24, Resorts World Manila will also be rewarding cakes and tea at its Mooncake and High Tea mini-buffet for only 18 points. There would also be a daily Mooncake Raffle with 12 electronic raffle draws will be held each day from 3:00 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. at certain intervals. With four varieties of moon cake in each box, Mooncakes will also available for sale at Resorts World Manila’s Passion Restaurant.

Enjoy the Mooncake Festival with the Chinese and non-Chinese communities alike at the Resorts World Manila from Sept 22-24. For inquiries, you may call (632) 836-6333 or visit www.rwmanila.com.

Yummy Food Editor Rachelle Santos

It was the latest Yummy Magazine Cooking Demo, and this time, it was held at Landmark in Trinoma Mall a few weeks ago.

Yummy shared some of their secret recipes through Yummy Food Editor Rachelle Santos who was the head chef for that day.

Rachelle focused on easy-to-prepare everyday meals that involved the use of bangus (milk fish) in the dishes particularly using Sarangani Bay Prime Bangus.

Inspired from the Yummy Magazine September issue, the cooking demo by-products were:

Crispy Bangus Belly Strips

Tinapa with Eggplant and Sun-dried Tomato Pasta, Crispy Bangus Belly Strips with Caper Mayo, Bangus Belly with Tausi, and Spice-Marinated Sarangani Bangus Belly Fillets.

Spice Marinated Sarangani Bangus Belly Fillets

Tinapa with Eggplant and Sun-dried Tomato Pasta

Smoked Bangus-based

Cooking Demo at Landmark Trinoma

The event was brief as preparation of the dishes was quite fast since these were easy-to-prepare dishes. And of course, guests and the audience including NomNom were able to have a tasting feast of the prepared dishes.

Sarangani Bay Prime Bangus

Check out Yummy‘s September issue on different preparations, ideas, ingredients, techniques and styling for a fresh take on well-loved classic and modern Pinoy cuisines like Adobo De Campesino. Enjoy your favorite Filipino dishes in new ways!

Yummy September 2010 Cover

For P125, Yummy’s September issue also features 10 merienda snack ideas, soups, sides, and mains dishes cooked with Buko (coconut).

Until the next Yummy Magazine Cooking Demo!

If you are looking into the opportunity of starting a food business, starting with a franchise business is an option specially if it would be your first time to explore the entrepreneurship world.

Filipino Franchise Show 2010

Yesterday, I got to visit the 9th Filipino Franchise Show 2010 at the World Trade Center in Pasay where more than half of the exhibitors are from the food franchise businesses.

Regular entrance ticket costs P100 per person while students can get in for P50 and senior citizen at P80. I got my free ticket care of the organizer – Association of Filipino Franchisers Inc. (AFFI). Check their website at http://www.affi.com.ph/ and event website http://www.franchiseshowphilippines.com/

Franchise Finds

Attention grabbing structures are the usual big booths from big brands like Mang Inasal, Julie’s Bakeshop, Binalot, and Eng Bee Tin whose mooncakes would be a hit in the next few days due to the upcoming Chinese Mooncake Festival.

Mang Inasal, Julie's Bakeshop, Binalot, and Eng Bee Tin

However, you would observe new brands as well such as Buko House, Mozarella Stick, Sankalan, Wrap A Lumpia, Sisig in the City, and food carts by JC Franchising. (See first photo).

On Ice Scrambles

Ice Scrambles Food Carts

As expected, the ice scrambles craze proliferated in the franchise show as I found at least four ice scramble franchise offerings including Ice Cramble “The Original Ice Crumble“, Scramboi Ice Scrambles, Scramble King, and Chillax Ice Scramble.

I like the hip sound of Chillax the most. 🙂 However, Scramble King rides on the name recall of the monosyllabic “king.” I think Scramboi could have settled with “Scramboy” instead, investing on the common Filipino street name.

I didn’t find the Manila Scrambles cart I see in most malls, however.

The Ice Scrambles food cart idea is currently taking the low-cost food franchise by storm primarily because of its low cost and comparatively simple operations involved in preparing the product. Time would say if this would only be a fad or if the ice scrambles industry would stay for good.

Innovative Names

RBX (Rice in a Box) and Taxi Cab

Moving on, there are also food businesses with innovative names like RBX or Rice in a Box and Tapsi Cab. The former seem to be moving from the usual cart type to kiosk with their dine-in showcase at the franchise fair. The latter reminds us of a similar sounding pizza chain. 🙂

Potato Loops

AFFI Seminars

Lastly, I found this interesting-looking potato product that looks peculiar from our regular French fries. It’s fried but swirled in a stick and called “Potato Loops.” I wasn’t able to taste one but the aesthetics is enough to possibly pique a passers-by’s interest giving it the ‘curious-purchase’ advantage. I think it’s innovative and have a high-market potential in the near future given that it tastes good enough for a snack.

Philippines Franchisees and Franchisors

You still have today and tomorrow to visit the 9th Filipino Franchise Show 2010 at the World Trade Center in Pasay. Tel:(02) 506-8883, 0917-518-AFFI, 347-0153, 534-1134. Email info@tradenetevents@gmail.com or affi.secretariat_raffy@yahoo.com. A ride away from SM Mall of Asia, it opens 11am and closes 7pm.

365 days and 121 foodie articles after, NomNom Club turns 1 today! From its first article in Sept 9, 2009, this food blog has evolved in leaps and bounds.

NomNom Foodie Club Members

Based from the internet slang “nomnomnom” which refers to “eating,” NomNom Club has featured a number of restaurants, new dishes, recipes, food events, and other food related matters.

We have also started a NomNom Foodie Club open to all enthusiast of anything related to food. We have foodies who simply love to eat, mommy chefs, recipe-seeking housewives, food bloggers, and food industry players such as restaurant owners. Membership count is now at a little more than a hundred.

It was a fruitful year and I am thankful to all who supported NomNom Club through email subscription, joining the NomNom Foodie Club, or even simply commenting in the articles. My heart also goes out to those who nominated NomNom Club as one of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2010. Your votes of confidence meant a lot.

NomNom Club 1st Annoversary Celebration

Greenwich Pasta Feast

Lastly, the Foodie Club also celebrated the anniversary in advance last September 4, 2010 at Greenwich SM North Edsa with about 30 members and guests.

It was extreme fun and food fiesta supported by Greenwich and SolidHosting.ph.

Pizza, pasta, and prizes were overflowing – almost everyone won in the raffle :). SolidHosting.ph gave away 15 webhosting packages worth more than P10K.

Greenwich and SolidHosting.ph supports NomNom Club

From here on, this food blog of 200 email subscribers will slowly turn into a group blog by having memeber-guest bloggers write for us at least once a month. Moreover, we will make it more interactive by having top commenters of the month join us in monthly food activities. We alsoo hope to have other foodie activities such as contests, coffee 101 seminars, and food article writing seminars for foodie club members.

Games and Raffles Winners

Get free foodie updates in your inbox by being an email subscriber. Follow us on Twitter @NomNomFoodie, Facebook and join the NomNom Foodie Club! Cheers to another year of more NomNom Club nomnoms and fun!

Cheese-inspired Christmas desserts flowed from the recent launch of the World’s Longest Christmas Celebration by Kraft Eden Cheese last September 4, 2010. The project features 100 unique cheese-based specialties of 100 towns nationwide to celebrate 100 Days of Christmas.

Here are 5 towns and their dishes among the list of 100:

Bacolod: Bakareta with Fried Potato and Kraft Eden Cheese and the Masskara Festival

Considered as one of the best places to live in the Philippines, Bacolod has already made a name for itself. Bacolod is also one of the top sugar producers of the country. Famous for is its magnificent Masskara Festival, it is a colorful, festive and widely-acclaimed annual festival that attracts a huge number of tourists. Get a taste of the rich and blossoming Bacolod through their native specialty Bakareta with Fried Potato and Kraft Eden Cheese.

Bacolod: Bakareta with Fried Potato and Kraft Eden Cheese and the Masskara Festival

Iloilo: Creamy Macaroni Soup with Eden Cheese and Dinagyang Festival (Top Photo)

Known as the “Textile Capital of the Philippines”, I have been to Iloilo twice and is looking forward for the third this coming November for the Visayas Blogging Summit.

Marked for its Dinagayang Festival, Iloilo’s specialties include La Paz Bachoy, Molo Soup, and biscocho. You may also try the famed Creamy Macaroni Soup with Eden Cheese.

Bauan, Batangas: Vegeden and Kampon ni Pakakak

Bot to far away from Manila, the town houses the 2.5m tall Anubing cross that is said to be miraculous and has since become a major attraction to devotees. But for beach lovers, it is hailed as a “Diver’s Sanctuary”.

It is also the home of their special wrap and roll called Vegeden.

San Carlos, Pangasinan: Sushi Catfish with Crabmeat con cheese and Veggie and the City Plaza of San Carlos

Known for their mango trees and mung beans, this side of Pangasinan also engages in livestock raising, crop production, inland fishing, pottery, food processing, tourism, and commerce. Formerly known as Binalotangan, San Carlos is rich in its agro industry.

Get a taste of the promising and aspiring San Carlos by enjoying their rich and creamy Sushi Catfish with Crabmeat con Cheese and Veggie.

San Carlos, Pangasinan: Sushi Catfish with Crabmeat con Cheese and Veggie and the City Plaza of San Carlos

Abucay, Bataan: Cheesy Eggplant Layers and the Sibul Spring

Abucay is home to the Sto. Domingo Abucay Church – one of the oldest churches in the Philippines. It is also where Pasukulan Falls – a natural wonder in the unexplored and unspoiled valley of Mt. Natib can be found.

It is reputably where the first printing press in the Philippines can be found, and claimed to be even older than that of the United States. So have a nature trip in Abucay while enjoying their Cheesy Eggplant Layers.

Abucay, Bataan: Cheesy Eggplant Layers and the Sibul Spring

Do you think one of these is the best dish to have this Christmas season?

Support your choice dish or your province by having 1 empty pack of Eden Sulit Pack, Eden 180g or Eden 500g, and a piece of paper with  your name, contact details, the name of the town you want to vote for and your signature. Drop your entries at the nearest Eden’s Sarap ng Pasko stations at the Prime Cast office, SM Mall of Asia or any ABS-CBN Main and Regional offices.

Sarap Ng Pasko

Check out more details about Kraft Eden‘s  Sarap ng Pasko by going to www.sarapngpasko.com and view the other unique cheese-based dishes that you think deserve to win.

For about two weeks now, you might have noticed ongoing online contests in some of the Philippines’ top blogs named “Real Leaf Word Master Challenge.”

In case you haven’t, try checking the follwing sites

Tech: www.yugatech.com/blog
Lifestyle: www.flaircandy.com
Gaming: www.gmtristan.com
Travel: www.pinoytravelblog.com
Entertainment: www.starmometer.com
Food: www.kubiertos.com

and use their search box to look for their “Real Leaf Word Master Challenge” blogpost.

Real Leaf Word Master Challenge

To go directly to the contest page, go to the following address: http://apps.facebook.com/real_leaf/ .

Mechanics of the 4-week contest is found onupper righ the upper section of the FB App. If you are having a hard time answering the questions, try this link if it may help.

Enchong Dee & Erich Gonzales

Prizes for this Real Leaf contest include 2 Sony Bloggie HD digicam and a date with Erich Gonzales and Enchong Dee.

This is it! NomNom Club will turn 1 on September 9, 2010!

And we will celebrate our 1st year anniversary with our community of readers/email subscribers – the NomNom Foodie Club!

Updated Aug 31, 2010

Since it will be on a Thursday,  we will celebrate it in advance on September 4, 2010, Saturday 1pm to 3pm at the Greenwich branch of SM North Edsa.

We are thankful to our venue and food sponsor Greenwich.We will be having their new offerings including Shrimp Aglio Olio, Lasagna Supreme, Beefy Baked Macaroni, Bacon Chicken Carbonara, Ultimate Hawaiian Pizza 18”, G4 Pizza 18”, Shrimp & Garlic Pizza 18″, Hungarian Sausage Pizza 18”, and my personal favorite Philly Cheesesteak Pizza 18”. 🙂

Greenwich Pasta Fiesta - NomNom Foodie Club Choices

Check out their website and choose among the first four as I will be taking participant’s personal orders by Friday(Sept 3) through email. 🙂

We will also be giving away raffle prizes and giveaways including branded items! SolidHosting.ph will also be raffling a number of webhosting packages worth thousands of pesos! Even the early birds on event day gets some early worms. 🙂

Due to venue space limitations, we might be able to only accommodate the first 40 50 NomNom Foodie Club registrants as of now. If you have registered in the NomNom Foodie Club before August 27, 2010, then you are entitled to join.

Sign Up for the 1st NomNom Foodie Club Meet Up by leaving a comment below. In filling up the comment form, be sure to use your email that is subscribed to NomNom Club so I can check it in the list.

I will also update you guys if there will be any changes such as if we can accommodate more with a bigger venue. For now it’s only 40 50 slots. Let’s see first if it even gets filled up. 🙂

Lastly, I would just like to clarify some terms to avoid confusion. NomNom Club is the food blog. NomNom Foodie Club is our community of email subscribers who have also signed up through this form.

Sign up through the comment form below and see you next week in the NomNom Club 1st Anniversary AND 1st NomNom Foodie Club Meet Up.

What does it take to be a “Souperstar“? Lea, a wife and a busy mom to her family, exerts great effort to be creative in her cooking by experimenting on soup recipes. And with this, she depends on long-trusted brand Knorr.

Knorr Souperstar

A self-confessed “domesticated Carrie”, Lea has been sharing her experiences and hopefully soup recipes too (very soon) with busy moms like her through her blog, http://souperstar.ph/.`She could use some interesting widgets though, her sidebars are too bare. 🙂

In one of her blog posts, Lea shows how you can come up with an alternative to fried chicken, the Chi-Ka-Knorr. On the other hand, there is the easy-to-prepare Knorr Chicken and Corn Real Chicken Soup for the rainy days.

She also showed how Knorr Cream of Mushroom Soup can be used for the kid’s favorite fried chicken.

So how did Lea became a “Souperstar?”

“Remember my best friend Kaye, the girl from Unilever whom I ran into at the grocery last week? I forgot to mention she also helped me out with this little online hobby of mine. She told the people at Knorr about my mention of their product on my blog (the Knorr Cream of Corn soup she enthusiastically endorsed), they saw it and offered to co-sponsor it! Hence the apt website name – SOUPerstar.ph. Yay, thank you Knorr!”

Souperstar momblogger and her family

Momblogger Lea

In her blog introduction, “My late night chasing deadlines copywriting for ad agencies have now been replaced by keeping house and taking care of the two loves of my life…thanks to modern and my trusty laptop, I’m still managing to juggle a career as a freelance writer with being a pretty decent homemaker and part-time blogger. Who says you can’t have it all?”

Aside from helpful recipes, Lea also supplements her blog with photos of her cute kid, Gab, and her husband, J, and their food adventures for the day. You can follow Lea Souperstar on http://souperstar.ph/.