Marco Polo Plaza Cebu is one of the UFS Sooo Pinoy Food Tour destination in the Cebu leg last April. Marco Polo Plaza Cebu, sits at Nivel Hills Lahug Cebu provides an overlooking panoramic views of Cebu City. Marco Polo Plaza Cebu is Cebu City's only 5-star hotel, provides its guests the privacy they needed with its Continental Club rooms. The Marco Polo Plaza Cebu is also home to some of the finest restaurants of Cebu City with unique flavour and ambience and serves Mediterranean, South-East Asian, Western and Filipino cuisine.

Cafe Marco's Inun-unan nga Tangigue (Fish Tanigue/Spanish Mackerel stew) is proudly Cebuano with ingredients like white vinegar, local eggplant and Kamias, green chili finger, bitter ground, garlic and ginger, In Katagalogan this method of cooking is called Paksiw na isda, or Sinaing na Tulingan in Batangas and Pinamalhan nga isda for Ilonggos. Inun unan is also famous method to cook fish variety like Stone Fish, Bariles, Galunggong, Tulingan or Yellow fin tuna.

Cafe Marco also prepares a Cebuano Pork and Chicken Adobo recipe and gladly it is paired with boiled Corn grits or Bugas Mais, a substitue to rice. Corn grits is widely used in Cebu and makes a good partner with Inun unan and Chicken adobo. The adobo sauce over the corn grit makes a perfect tasting rice.

Marco Polo Cebu's version of Iloilo's Pancit Molo (chicken wanton soup) uses chicken meat from the ribs and neck parts to enhance its flavours. Ground pork, shrimps and other spices are also present in the broth that it creates.
Sooo Pinoy Food Tour campaign is spearheaded by Unilever Food Solutions, the food service arm of Unilever Philippines, to know more about the Sooo Pinoy campaign, liked the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
Marco Polo Plaza Cebu Cafe Marco Buffet Restaurant posted at Cebu Events Blog.

Barbecue or Grilling way of cooking is the most widely observed method of cooking among Filipinos. May it be on Restaurants or in streets, barbecue is loved by Filipinos, and Cebuanos also do. The Original AA BBQ in Cebu grilling for more than a decade now and still counting serving the Cebuanos with good quality barbecues. They cooked for according to your preference, chicken and pork barbecues like thigh, leg, liver, gizzard, Cebu Chorizo and hotdog. Seafoods are best sellers too, fish, clams, shrimps, prawns and squids.

The Original AA BBQ in Lahug Cebu is also offering other dishes other than grilled foods. One of AA BBQ best seller barbecue is their Cebuano Chorizo which comes in regular flavor and Spicy.

AA BBQ's Crispy Hot Squid is also showcase to Uniliver Food Solutions Sooo Pino Food Trip delegates on its second day in Cebu. Crispy Hot Squid is made of squid cuts, dipped with batter and fried, the sliced chili also adds its flavour.

AA BBQ's Imbao Soup is just so good for me paired with the rest of the grilled dishes in the table. AA BBQ prepared their signature Fruit Twister to quenched our thirst with mixes of mango puree, lemon, orange, and watermelon.
UFS Sooo Pinoy Food Tour aims to impart to Filipinos about the most popular Filipino national and regional dishes, to know more about the campaign, like the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
The Original AA BBQ Grills & Barbecue in Lahug posted at Cebu Events Blog

The Port Seafood Restaurant, now Port Restaurant at the Waterfront Cebu Hotel and Casino in Lahug previously provide Ala Carte Fine Dining now offering All day Buffet dining experience and Catering or Banquet services. Port Restaurant is the second stop restaurant for Unilever Food Solutions Sooo Pinoy Campaign Cebu Day 2. Port Restaurant is strategically located in the Waterfront Cebu compound and in the vicinity of the Cebu Park District - Cebu IT Park, also offering late night buffet to cater BPO industry crowd.

Port Restaurant showcase to Sooo Pinoy their Summer themed dish, Chicken Binakol. Chicken Binakol is a Bicolano dish is a simmer chicken soup with lemon grass (tanglad) mixed with coconut juice and other spices. The Port Restaurant's Chef Lobingco inspired from their family favourite dish and believes the health benefits that a Macapuno can give.

The Port Restaurant's Pineapple Rice is made from a non meat fried rice with Pineapple bits in a fresh Pineapple housing also made for health conscious buffet buffs. Some of Port Restaurant's best selling dishes Sizzling Bangus, Kare Kare and Sizzling Squid, Their Pizza and Pasta also diner's favourite.

The Port Restaurant Eat All You Can and Buffet rates are Php 199.00 for Lunch Buffet and Php 299.00 for Dinner Buffet.
UFS Sooo Pinoy Food Tour provides information about the most popular Filipino national and regional dishes, to know more about the campaign, like the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
The Port Restaurant at the Waterfront Hotel Cebu Lahug posted at Cebu Events Blog

Sooo Pinoy Food Tour in Cebu first stop on the second day is Golden Prince Hotel and Suites just a stone-throw from Ayala Center Cebu and Cebu Park District. Golden Prince Hotel and Suites assures customers a royal living at a fair and affordable room rates. Golden Prince Hotel and Suites welcomes you to feel right at home redefining urban living from choice of location, luxury and lifestyle. Sous Chef Marlou Almasco of Golden Prince Hotel and Suites prepares two dishes from Prince Fusion Gourmet to Sooo Pinoy.

The first Prince Fusion Gourmet dish is Crispy Fried Pescador, a Pugapo or Lapu-Lapu in a sweet and sour sauce with pineapple garnished. The name of the Lapu-Lapu dish, Pescador is derived from Pescador Island in Moalboal at the western part of Cebu. Crispy Fried Pescador is deep fried with the sweet and sour sauce with tomatoes, Green peas, Potatoes, Pineapple bits, Carrots, Onions to balance the flavour.

The second dish from Prince Fusion Gourmet is one of Cebu's Popular dishes - Beef Pochero, in Luzon it is popularly known as Bulalo. Chef Marlou uses cebu growned corn, saging saba, potato, beef shanks & bone marrow and vegetables. He added that by using Saging na saba and sweet corn, the sabaw of the Pochero would taste a little bit sweeter.

Unilever Food Solutions Sooo Pinoy Campaign will discover all one of a kind Filipino dishes through the country's restaurants and converse with Filipino Chefs about their innovations on Filipino dishes that they serve. To know more about the Sooo Pinoy Campaign like the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
Golden Prince Hotel and Suites Pochero and Pescador Pugapo posted at Cebu Events Blog

Unilever Food Solutions Sooo Pinoy Food Trip in Cebu last stop for the first day is Mooon Cafe Mexican Restaurant in Cebu IT Park The Walk Lahug. The Cebu  IT Park provides diners a beautiful environment through green landscape to complement the high-rise BPO infrastructure and has become a lifestyle destination in the Cebu with dining, recreation, wellness and retail outlets accessible by Cebuanos. Pages Holdings indeed choosen the ideal location of Mooon Cafe in The Walk IT Park.

Though this is not the showcase of Mooon Cafe for UFS Sooo Pinoy 2012, Mooon Cafe's Pork Sisig is still the darling among the Food trippers paired with plain rice. Mooon Cafe Pork Sisig is named one of the best Sisig in the country by UFS Sooo Pinoy 2011 and it really deserves the feat. Moon Cafe Pork Sisig served in sizzling plate main ingredients are chopped pork mask and liver sauteed in onion, chili hot sauce, calamansi juice, and topped with cheese and fresh egg.

Mooon Cafe is a Mexican themed restaurant in Cebu but with a Filipino Delicacy influence, their Sisig Burrito with Red Pepper Cheese Pimiento is a combination of your favorite Filipino delicacy and scrumptious Mexican staple priced at 140 pesos. Other Authentic Mexican offering from Mooon Cafe are Chimichanga, Quesadilla Uno, Quesadilla Veracruz, Beef Burito, Campesinos, Nacho de Salsa, Beef Taco, Fish Taco, Burrito Pescado, Campesinos Jalapeno, Chicken Flautas, and Nacho Spinners.

Mooon Cafe has also wide range of appetizers such as Gambas ala Luna, Gambas al Ajillo, Calamares Fritos, Beef Salpicao, Crispy Chili Squid Head, Garlicky Mushroom, Tocino Strips, Tapa Strips, and Sisig. For the main dishes, choose over Mooon Steak, Beef Tips, Chicken Mozzarella Melt, Pork Belly, Pork Chop, Peppered Beef, Mexican Baby Back Ribs, Pork Barbecue, Steak ala Pobre, Lechon Kawali, Beef Stroganoff, Tenderloin steak, Fillet Mignon, Rib Eye Steak and Chili Con Carne. Fish dishes are also available like Fish Mozzarella Melt, Blue Marlin, Tangigue Steak, Breaded Fish Fillet and tuna Belly
Uniliver Food Solutions Sooo Pinoy Campaign aims to feed our love for Filipino food, Know more about Sooo Pinoy campaign by liking the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
Mooon Cafe Mexican themed Restaurant Sisig Burrito posted at Cebu Events Blog

Unilever Food Solution Sooo Pinoy aims to help Filipinos discover more about the diverse Filipino cuisine. On the first day of Sooo Pinoy Food Trip in Cebu, the fourth stop restaurant is Chikaan sa Cebu in JY square Lahug Salinas Drive to taste a truly Cebuano food - Utan Bisaya soup (a staple vegetable soup) and Ampalaya with Dilis (balsam apple with dried anchovy). The dishes are easy to prepare because it is readily available in any Cebuano's backyard garden and dilis are abundant in Visayan seas.

Chikaan sa Cebu version of Utan Bisaya reflects the way Cebuano cook Utan, as a Cebuano since birth, I am one of those who benefited from the nutritious soup and vitamins from vegetable that you can get in eating Utan Bisaya.

Either fried fish or dried fish is used to add flavour to the Utan Bisaya which compose vegetables like Malunggay (moringa), Eggplant, Talbos ng kamote, Gabi, String Beans and more.

Filipino is not used to eat with only one dish in the table, most of the time if the budget permits or especially there's an occasion in the family, a couple or number of dishes is prepared in the table. Chikaan sa Cebu's Amaplaya with Dilis is one of the dishes that are used to be prepared in the Cebuano table vis-a-vis with Utan Bisaya and other main dishes.
Know more about Utan Bisaya of Cebu and the Sooo Pinoy campaign by liking the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
Chikaan sa Cebu Utan Bisaya and Ampalaya with Dilis posted at Cebu Events Blog

As the Sooo Pinoy Food Trip Cebu Leg group contninue, going around the Queen City of the South to sample the culinary delights of Cebu with Uniliver Food Solutions.
From the Eastern resort stretch of Mactan Island - Shangri-la Resort and Spa to the southside shores of the Island, our next food destination for Soo Pinoy Cebu is the serene Plantation Bay Resort's Fiji Restaurant. Plantaion Bay Resort Mactan is ideal for Family, Relaxation, Romance, name it with almost 12 hectares resort property of 5-star Colonial Plantation charm.

Plantation Bay Resort Mactan's Fiji Restaurant Executive Sous Chef, Henry Abellana uses the locally available source of Ingredients in his Seafood showcase for Sooo Pinoy.

Chef Abellana's Sphagetti Al Nero (Black Sphagetti) lets you enjoy your craving for flavour of squid ink minus the black color on your teeth. How did he do it? Plantation Bay Resort's Sphagetti Al Nero freshly homemade Pasta is comprised with black squid ink and not in the sauce. Sauteed with white wine, onions, tomato, olive oil, scallops, mussels, squid, peperoncino and Uniliver Food Solutions. Now you can do your usual conversation while enjoying your Black Spaghetti.

The cleverly named dish of Fiji Restaurant is also showcase to Sooo Pinoy. Twinned of crustaceans, Prawns and Lobster coined "Kissing Cousins". After the name, now you're interested of tasting it right? Fiji Restaurant's prime appetizer Kissing cousins menu which stands out from the rest. The cousins is sauteed in garlic and white wine.

Fiji Restaurant at Plantation Bay Resort Mactan is one of four restaurants which specializes on Seafood offering. Nested on the sea shores of the resort with both Al-Fresco and Air-condition spaces. On wednesdays Fiji Featuers Filipino Fiesta which will feature different filipino dishes ranges from Lechon to Humba (Adobo) and more. After the interview with Plantation Bay Chefs, we jump start to our way from Mactan Island to Uptown Cebu at Chika-an sa Cebu for their famous Utan Bisaya.
Plantation Bay Resort and Spa is located at Marigondon, Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines, you may visit their website at http://plantationbay.com
To fill your Filipino cuisine craving, know more about the Sooo Pinoy campaign by liking the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
Sooo Pinoy Food Trip Cebu - Plantation Bay Resort Fiji Restaurant posted at Cebu Events Blog.

Sooo Pinoy Food Trip project is spearheaded by Uniliver Food Solutions with goals to boost Pinoy's appetite for Filipino food.
The second stop for Sooo Pinoy Food Trip Day in Cebu is Shangri-la Resort and Spa Mactan Tide Restaurant. Shangri-la Mactan's Tide Restaurant is prime buffet table destination in the resort and in the Island. Shanri-la Mactan's Tide Restaurant Sous Chef Adolfo Lopez prepared to Sooo Pinoy a traditional Ilonggo dish that is offered mostly on speacial family occasions like Barrio Fiesta, birthdays or weddings.

Shangri-la Mactan's Pork Lau-ya, a boiled porked belly in local vegetables and spices is also a all time family favorite dish cook straight from Chef's Adolfo's mother recipe. To give you idea on how it taste, Tides Restaurant Pork Lau-ya is similar to Sinigang with sabaw or soup but only uses green mango to enhance its sour flavor.

In Ilo-ilo, Pork Lau-ya is slightly at par with KBL or staple Kadios Baboy Langka. The flavour of Pork Lau-ya is due to overnight marinade in salt, pepper and sugar before simmered toogether with local vegetable ingredients and other spices. Pork Lau-ya is expected to join with other Traditional Filipino dishes in Shangri-la Mactan's Filipino Nights that would be slated every Thursday starting May.

Chef Adolfo with 16 years experience in and out of the country cross culture culinary with his latest offering the Pork Lau-ya. Bringing traditional Ilonggo dish to Cebuanos at Shangri-la Resort and Spa Mactan.
To know more about the Sooo Pinoy campaign, food enthusiasts and lovers alike are invited to like the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
Sooo Pinoy Food Trip - Shangri-La Resort and Spa Mactan posted at Cebu Events Blog

The Food we cook and eat speaks about our heritage and culture. Thus, there's a need to nurture our local culinary arts that had been inherited from our ancestors.
The Sooo Pinoy Food Trip is the biggest food tour event in the country with more than 300 restaurants throughout Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are joining this endeavor. Soo Pinoy is a project spearheaded by Unilever Food Solutions, the food service arm of Unilever Philippines. Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) together with Department of Tourism (DOT) through its Tourism Promotions Board recently inks a MOA to promote local cuisine and tourism through the Sooo Pinoy Food Tour.

Sooo Pinoy Cebu Leg has started and the first restaurant at the Mactan Shrine area of Lapu Lapu City, Manna SuTuKil Seafood House showcases the foods that are part of Cebuanos prime cuisine served all year round. Since Visayan Islands are georaphically situated with bodies of water that are bounty with edible marine creatures, undeniably seafood speaks about the island of Cebu.

Su-Tu-Kil is a popular way of cooking or preparing seafoods in Mactan Island. "Su" stands for Sugba which means Grilled, a classic way of cooking using charcoals.

"Tu" stand for Tuwa or a simmered in a zested broth or soup. Mrs. Lydia Lim the owner of Manna Sutukil House joins us in our Lunch and talked a little about her restaurant. She said, that Mannas' way of preparing a "Tinuwang Isda" is mastered so there's no unnecessary smell when served in the table.

To complete the SuTuKil trios, "Kil" means "Kinilaw" or a way of preparing seafood by sousing withh vinegar and spices that adds flavor and relish. Manna Seafoods Kinilaw nga Tangigue is the best for me :)

"Lato salad" (Sea Grapes or Green Caviar) and "Guso salad" (soft corals) are also popular seved in a Kinilaw preparation. A careful selection of spices will improved the Kinilaw experience. Mrs Lim uses Uniliver products like Knorr to further enhance the taste of their seafood offering.

In Manna Seafood House, Sutukil is not the only the order list, other methods of preparing Seafoods like Baked scallops are a must at the dining table. Mrs Lim also added that the name of the restaurant "Manna" was came from the Bible, which she's very thankful that her Sutukil business is blessed to be the prime spot for both Tourist and Local seafood lovers.
To know more about the Sooo Pinoy campaign, food enthusiasts and lovers alike are invited to like the Sooo Pinoy page on Facebook or follow @SoooPinoy on Twitter.
Sooo Pinoy Food Trip - Manna Seafood House posted at Cebu Events Blog