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

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Mocenpick Hotel and Resort Discount and Promo 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