For Filipinos, food is an experience. It is the laughter shared over steaming bowls of soup, the thrill of discovering bold flavors, and the joy of chasing the latest food craze. This September, SM Supermalls turns up the heat with the Food Fest at SM—a month-long celebration of flavors, fun, and unforgettable moments!

Avail of Gyukatsu Kyoto Katsugyu’s promo at SM Mall of Asia and SM City North EDSA! Customers will receive one (1) free Menchi Katsu for every two (2) orders of Gyukatsu Zen until September 30,2025 from Monday to Thursday

Ikinari Steak is treating their MOA Square customers to one (1) free Coffee Jelly for every order of premium steak (tenderloin, wagyu, ribeye, striploin) until September 30, 2025.

It's great that in some way I was able to enjoy and learn things in the north as my husband works in Pampanga. He did introduced things and foods that I haven't tasted or heard about. Though there are really some that I would definitely not try. It was just in time that a few days ago I was able to visit one of the malls in Pampanga in which I haven't been to. I was invited to a media launch of the upcoming food festival. It is a sneak peek of the event happening this week in Marquee Mall which is dubbed as "Big Bite! The Northern Food Festival."

So what's in store for people who will be joining Big Bite! The Northern Food Festival?  Well, before anything else, first, the said event is presented by Marquee Mall, Ayala Mall's premier destination for shopping, leisure and entertainment in the province of Pampanga and in partnership with different agencies, namely Department of Tourism, Department of Trade and Industry, Angeles Tourism Office, North Luzon Expressway, Bank of the Philippine Islands and Lifestyle Network. There are plenty of gastronomic dishes and activities to expect. It's going to be a mouthwatering festivity.
This three-day event of Big Bite promises great delicious delicacies and savoring dishes. There will be cooking demos, food art, free food samples, live entertainment and a whole lot more. It will be a festivity to expect.

Food lovers and enthusiasts can get a hold of regional products in just one venue as 100 plus more food merchants from Region I, II, III and the Cordillera Region lined p in the food market at Big Bite festivity. Choices from condiments, spices, coffees and jams, to local favorites such as Ilocos empanada, Vigan longanisa, bagnet, puto calasiao and more. This all can be a great pasalubong for your love ones and friends.

Aside from the local food delicacies that each region has to offer Big Bite is also giving credit to the growing street food industry. They'll be giving an additional aisle in the festival ground to enjoy these street food delights like the ice scramble, strawberry taho, binatog and sorbetes.
Angeles City has indeed marked the entire world with its contribution to Philippine cuisine. New York Times hailed Sisig as one of the best pork dish. Sisig is celebrated in the province for more than 40 years and according to Chef Mel Galang or Tita Mel's trivia, who is a Kapampangan, the term Sisig comes from the expression 'mangisig' which is caused by the mixtures of the flavor in every spoon of sisig. Chef Mel and Chef Sau made a cooking demonstration of sisig during the media launch.



During the sneak peek Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan welcomed the guests and media and furthermore invited everyone to come into the festivity itself and experience what the province of Pampanga and the whole Northern Luzon has to offer. Of course Angeles City is the place where Sisig is born so expect the festivity of Sisig.

What more to expect at Big Bite! the Northern Food Festival? Well here's list....

• Art installation by award-winning artist Leeroy New and the Pampanga Arts Guild
• Cooking demonstration from Chef Sandy Daza of Foodprints and the lively Chef Sharwin Tee of Curiosity Got the Chef.
• The Big Buffet promo, where Marquee Mall shoppers can get feee food samples for a minimum Php1,000 purchase from any Marquee Mall merchant.

So, come and celebrate this biggest gastronomical festival in Marquee Mall's Big Bite! The Northern Food Festival.

For more information about the festival visit Marquee Mall's social media network www.facebook.com/MarQueeMall and follow on Twitter @MarQueetweets and on Instagram @iloveMarQueemall

What's the most best time for mommies? Well, having a big break in a very relaxing hotel and that's what happened a few days ago, yours truly went to south together with the other bloggers for this particular event. This was my first time to visit this part of Batangas, the Matabungkay Beach Resort and Hotel. A very interesting place to spend a relaxing day.

Aside from the Beach which is known in the area, the hotel with great amenities, and well the most important is the food are something to look forward to when you visit this side of town. I consider food is a very important thing in spending a big break and MBH features a lot of food that they have in their buffet. This is one thing that people should look up to at MBH during peak season and if MBH have plenty of guests.




What's so interesting about MBH is that they featured two of talented participants of the recently concluded Junior Master Chef, namely Jobim Jalbuena and Tricia Baylosis. They are the highlights the Batangas Food Fest in MBH aside from featuring food delicacies of Batangas. To even highlight more the festivity a cooking demo was conducted by these two talented junior master chefs together with the other chefs of Magnolia. They presented some of their best recipes that people will surely enjoy.




Jobim Jalbuena prepared a "Binarakong Baka" a very authentic taste which Jobim includes some delicacies from Batangas. While Tricia Baylosis prepared a "Kalderetang Kambing with Couscous Rice". Oh i love this food, I am a great fan of Kaldereta menu sometimes I cook Kaldereta for my family. I'll definitely try this recipe and hoped to imitate the version of Kalderetang Kambing of Tricia. Good Luck to me! These are some foods that they will serve for the whole month of November.

Kalderetang Kambing with Couscous Rice of Tricia (photo courtesy of Ms. Jing)

Binarakong Baka of Jobim (photo courtesy of Ms Jing)

The Deep Fried Ice Cream (photo courtesy of Ms. Jing)

Now tell me who in the world will not crave to have a dessert? I'm pretty much sure most of us loves dessert, so who loves ice cream out there?


Chef Manny of Magnolia ice cream made a little twist with the usual ice cream that we eat. This time he did a very unusual preparation of the ice cream. A sizzling ice cream and a deep fried ice cream. Very Interesting, isn't it? This is really something new for our taste buds, imagine Chef Manny use a sizzling plate for the preparation of the ice cream. A very delicious food with an unusual preparation. Well I couldn't really explain more so you better catch it by visiting MBH to personally taste it because it is exclusively available only in MBH.



Aside from the sizzling ice cream, another hot preparation of ice cream was made and this time the ice cream was fried and not only just fried but deep fried. I'm sure your thoughts are already working and thinking how they do it. Well, they rolled an ice cream ball on some plenty of bread crumbs and together with the other ingredients, then have it fried on hot oil in just a few seconds, and presto, a deep fried ice cream.

A very different kind of ice cream only at Matabungkay Beach Resort and Hotel.

After the Batangas Food Fest in MBH, we were given an opportunity to go around the beach, experienced the beautiful place, the amenities and go around the resort. I can say we did have a great time.  It's an experience that personally I'll cherish very much.






For peak months, Matabungkay Beach Hotel is offering Buffet for only Php300/pax and for this whole month of November the food that you see up there are all available.  So, what are you waiting for? visit Matabungkay Beach Hotel…BOOK NOW!!!

For Reservation call (02) 752-5252, (02) 752-5252 / (02) 819-3080 / 0917-865-5334 / 0908-887-0596

Or visit http://www.matabungkay.net/ and Matabungkay Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Matabungkay?fref=ts to book online and for more updates.

You can also FOLLOW them @thematabungkay on Twitter.

I would also like to take this great opportunity to give my thanks to Ms. Charley Leviste Antonio the owner of Matabungkay Beach Hotel and Ms. Wendy Jalbuena for having us in this wonderful place.  We had fun and we enjoyed our stay in Matabungkay Beach Hotel.