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

GT Cosmetics Manufacturing, a Cebu based beauty soap maker officially acquaint the public with their first Product Endorser, a Cebuana and host of ABS-CBN Mag-TV Na Phoebe Kaye Fernandez. Another significant reached for this year as GT Cosmetics celebrates 18th year with a great presense in its niche in the beauty industry. GT owner Engr. Leonora B. Salvane said “We decided to have a Cebuana because our product is Cebuano-made, "To ensure continued patronage of our products, we realized the effectiveness of a celebrity endorser to promote them.”

GT Soaps is founded on 1994, now virtually captured a nationwide market, GT has seen the need not only to protect its market but to strengthen it further by having someone credible to endorse its products. GT Cosmetics made its products amongst the sought-after brands in the country today with the help of the so-called word of mouth, which really a big help.
Phoebe Kaye Fernandez is an ABS-CBN talent and Bisaya indie film actress who is young, vibrant, fair-complexioned, and beautiful inside out. “For us, Phoebe perfectly fits the bill,” Salvane said. “We know she can help us capture the young audience.” “Furthermore, Phoebe and her mother both use GT products,”
More about GT Cosmetics Endorser, Phoebe Kaye Fernandez is a registered nurse after graduating magna cum laude from the University of San Carlos in 2008. She also emerged first runner-up in the Miss Mandaue contest of the same year.
In 2011 Sinulog Short Film Festival, Phoebe was named Best Actress for her role in “Biyahe” and was nominated Best Actress in the Cinema One Film Festival for her portrayal as a psychic in “My Paranormal Romance.”
Phoebe Kaye Fernandez formally signed the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with GT Cosmetics last March 30 (Friday) at the Cabalen Restaurant in SM City Cebu.
GT Cosmetics new Product Endorser Phoebe Kaye Fernandez posted at Cebu Events Blog

HP's new Networking Products and services delivers the increased flexibility to clients to keep pace with the demands of globalization and IT consumerization. HP FlexNetwork architecture is the best solution to the legacy network infrastructures which typically lacks the flexibility required to support virtualized infrastructures, the bandwidth for multimedia applications and the scalability required for the growing number of connected mobile devices.

The new HP Networking solutions revealed for virtualization, multimedia applications and enterprise mobility simplify migration to newer Internet Protocols, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking standard and virtualized branch services.

• HP FlexFabric - solutions for the data center which improve the performance of server-to-server traffic by up to 80 percent. It include the new 10 GbE HP 5900 top-of-rack switch and the updated HP 12500 switch series.
• HP FlexCampus - includes the new HP 3800 stackable switches, which provide up to 450 percent higher performance, and a new reference architecture for campus environments that unifies wired and wireless networks to support mobility and high-bandwidth multimedia applications.
• HP FlexBranch - saves up to 21 percent in cost. The expanded portfolio of new virtualized service modules with technology from HP partners VMware and Citrix helps to speed the service delivery of applications to branch offices.
• HP FlexManagement - The integrated mobile network access control (NAC) in HP Intelligent Management Center 5.1 streamlines enterprise access to mobile devices and protects IT infrastructure from mobile threats.
• IPv6 migration - New specialized services facilitate the migration to IPv6 while simplifying the customer transition, ensuring business continuity and minimizing business risk

Paul Robson, vice president and general manager, HP Networking, Asia Pacific and Japan says "Enterprises need a simpler networking infrastructure that’s scalable and flexible to keep pace with the dynamic needs of business applications, a unified approach to networking across the data center, campus and branch that enables clients to embrace the adoption of video, cloud and rich multimedia applications.”
A simplified data center network fabric that eliminates unnecessary layers of equipment, reduces bottlenecks, and leads to increased performance and greater simplicity in implementing and managing applications on the network are solution HP FlexFabric offers . Expanded HP FlexFabric portfolio with solutions that offer clients includes:

• Up to 300 percent greater network scalability with the new HP 5900 top-of-rack series of 10-GbE switches. The switch is powered by the HP Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF), an HP innovation that allows four HP 5900 switches to be virtualized and operate as a single switch.
• Improved network resiliency and performance of the HP 12500 switch series with full IPv6 support through the addition of the updated HP IRF technology with reduced network recovery time by more than 500 times.

Manage multimedia and mobility demands with HP FlexCampus with up to 76 percent lower latency and 122 percent higher 10 GbE port density with HP 3800 stackable switches an energy efficient ethernet with reduce power usage by 14 percent versus competing products. In terms of Costs, a reduce up to 35 percent with the HP FlexCampus Reference Architecture optimized for video and unified communications.

HP FlexManagement enable unified management of both virtual and physical environments across heterogeneous networks, the updated HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) 5.1 that now supports 5,786 devices from more than 150 manufacturers and helps protect IT infrastructures. HP also unveiled virtualized services modules for the HP 5400zl and 8200zl switches to ease the deployment of network-based services, the first in the industry to converge blade servers at the branch into a network infrastructure capable of hosting multiple applications and services. The HP Advanced Services zl Module with VMware vSphere 5 and HP Advanced Services zl Module with Citrix XenServer platforms deliver 57 percent lower power consumption and 43 percent reduction in space versus competing products.
Migration from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 Assistance
HP Network Consulting services assist enterprises and governments migrating from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6. IPv6 will maximize the effectiveness of an organization’s infrastructure and minimize the risks of failing to connect to customers and partners.
HP Networking Solutions Pricing and availability

• HP 5900 top-of-rack switch series is expected to be available in early 2012 in the United States with a starting list price of $38,000.
• HP 12500 switch with four-chassis virtualized core will be available this fall at no additional cost.
• HP 10500 campus core switch is available now worldwide starting at $38,000.
• HP 3800 line of switches is available now worldwide starting at $4,969.
• HP zl service modules for VMware and Citrix environments are available now worldwide.
• The HP Advanced Services zl Module with VMware vSphere 5 (including support and subscription, 8GB of RAM) starts at $5,299.
• The HP Advanced Services zl Module with Citrix XenServer (including support and subscription, 4GB of RAM) starts at $4,499.
• HP Intelligent Management Center 5.1 is expected to be available in early 2012 with a list price of $6,995.

The core component HP FlexNetwork of the HP Converged Infrastructureenable clients to simplify and speed service delivery across the data center, campus and branch, driving increased agility and innovation. Check out at Las Vegas HP Discover Events on June 4-7 2012.
HP Networking Solutions Pricing and Availability posted at Cebu Events Blog

Any dress is bound to looking even better on you when you accessorize it. There are a variety of ways you can do these. When it comes to accessorizing your dress you have a variety of styles to choose from. Purses are very good accessories and you should choose the best one there is to match your outfit. Many women who for so many years were interested in purchasing cruelty free eco-friendly purses and other accessories which limited them to a repeated type of collection.

For an occasion in which you want to wear a floral dresses you should choose accessories that compliment you dress. Many women today have embraced the vegan purses and accessories. These accessories are not just for the vegan eco-conscious woman. They come with a variety of style for all women from all lifestyles. Back in the day there were little options to go with but now women have the privilege of buying something that they like. A purse is an accessory that women can’t do without. Therefore women should pick purses and handbags that are durable and fashionable. You probably want a beautiful purse for dress.
A friendlier purse is the vegan purses which is different from animal by products. This is because they show every colour and print imaginable in different sizes. You will also love products that are totally vegan which made from recycled materials. There are many designers out there who have shown commitment to making vegan accessories. A quick search on the internet you will give you a number of results of eco- friendly bags. These eco-friendly bags are becoming more and more popular with people today. Their prices are quite affordable and the fact that they do not harm the environment is a major plus for the designers.
Accessorizing your Floral Dress posted at Cebu Events Blog