Monday, June 15, 2009

What Happen before 0859 Hrs in Gamu



Before 0859hrs a Jollie Bee breakfast
A great recipe for success
Jollibee’s rapid growth is due to its superior menu line-up, creative marketing programs, and efficient manufacturing and logistics facilities. It is made possible by well-trained teams that work in a culture of integrity and humility, fun and family-like.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Sweet and Spicy Mee

Sweet intoxication, high on satisfaction All over the world, people do like sweets; but in some places, notably the Philippines, people seem to go overboard, almost to the point of a mania, with their desire for sweets. Similarly, in Singapore we are crazy over for spicy food.
In Singapore we do use sugar, but often in combination with other spices to create new blends with a more nuanced sweetness. With Filipino dishes, the sugar content will blasts you into 7th heaven.
The challenge is to make our noodle equally sweet and yet not so spicy for our customers, what I liked about this Mee is the texture and taste of the noodles / mee. The balance of spicy and sweetness is just nice and the lack of visible oil give one a sense of healthier dining. The Mee also comes with generous portions of lean chicken meat and chinese mustard leaves. The price is a real steal at only P35 good for 1 person and P80 for the claypot.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Sweet , Vingear,Avocado stir fry fish

Avocado Production in the Philippines - Rachel C. Sotto*

At the end of the nineteenth century, several plant species were introduced into the Philippines. These came from different parts of the world and included fruits, vegetables and medicinal plants. Some proved to be valuable and easily adapted to the Philippine conditions while others were less promising and did not gain a wide acceptance among the populace. One of the introductions which proved to be suitable to the Philippine soil and climatic conditions was the avocado.

In the Philippines, the marketing of avocado involves two very simple systems. In the first system, the farmers bring their harvest to the market together with other farm produce i.e. banana, root crops, chicken, and sell these directly to the consumers. In this way they obtain a higher price for the avocado fruits. In the second system, a middleman, locally called 'comprador', buys all the avocado fruits from the farmers at a lower price and sells them in the market at a higher price. The middleman generally dictates the farm-gate price since he bears the transportation cost. Under the present nature of small-scale and backyard avocado production, where the volume of production is small, the farmer prefers to sell his produce to the middleman. Avocado production is for the local market.

Avocado typically thought of as a "fatty food", its all healthy fats! Not only is this fruit super-high in mono-unsaturated fat, but also chock full of vitamins, minerals, micro-nutrients, and antioxidants. The quality dose of healthy fats and other nutrition you get from avocados helps your body to maintain proper levels of hormones that help with fat loss and muscle building. Also, since avocados are an extremely satiating food, eating them helps to reduce your appetite in the hours after your meal.

Also, we added a small slice to our Chinese sweet and sour vinegar fish and you can be happy to know that it's also one of the healthiest toppings we had use on our menu, double the benefit of Omega 3 found in fish and avocado. Nowadays, they seem to be a surge of increasing awareness of heart disease and stroke, blood pressure, diabetic etc in the media. Henceforth, we had to moderate, on the sugar content and dish out a healthier dining for the public.

Beside all this benefits it CHEAP! We paid about P20 per kg for the avocado, in Singapore we had to pay about S$1.40 ($S1 to P32) per piece.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

What Happen before 0859 Hrs in Gamu


A common local sight and another form of transportation in Gamu. The National animals of philippines is the Carabao, The carabao (water buffalo) is still a very important draught-animal on the rice-fields. The carabao is also used for pulling activities in the forest. If not working, the water buffalo can be seen while it is resting, many times in a place of water and mud. That's a standard activity of the animal too! As for me I'am still learning to distinguished whether is a cow, beef, carabao or whatever !!