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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Naxional South American Diner: Family Recipes From Over 10 South American Countries

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Head over to one of the newest restaurants in Bonifacio Global City today and start your day with plenty of South American-themed dishes. Naxional South American Diner has recently opened at the 2nd floor of Uptown Parade (9th Avenue corner 38th street) to serve gastronomical delights heavily-inspired by traditional, home-cooked family recipes from over 10 different South American countries like Brazil, Venezuela, and Peru.

At a press conference held on August 8, 2016, just a few days before its grand opening on August 12, Christi McGarry, Miss Intercontinental 2015 1st Runner Up, Gabe Norwood, Gilas Pilipinas basketball team captain, and Vanessa Matsunaga, just one of the 13 co-partners of Naxional South American Diner, which is the brainchild of Raymund Magdaluyo, were seen at Naxional South American Diner to grace its formal announcement to media so we could share the great news to the public especially the foodies out there who would gladly visit newly opened restaurants.

Other well-known South American partners include Vanessa's brotehr and mom, Daniel Matsunaga and Gege Matsunaga respectively. There's also Cynthia Patos, Lifestyle Network's Venezuelan host and winner of "The Clash."

Gabe Norwood is joined by his wife Lei Norwood as founding partners also taht are not originally from South America.

Beauty Queen Christi McGarry vibrantly hosted the event making the day a lot more brighter and beautiful inspite of the rain that day.

Wazzup Pilipinas!

August 9 and 10, 2016 is going to be another gastronomic adventure as we get to attend the Citi x Zomato Food Run with The Bistro Group of restaurants as their way of promoting the Citi promotional offer of 30% on all appetizers and salads. No minimum. Valid daily until September 15, 2016 for all Citibank cardholders.

We will be visiting 12 restaurants (6 per day) to try out their appetizers on a half-day food run within Uptown Mall and High Street of Bonifacio Global City (BGC), Taguig city on the first day, and Greenbelt, Makati city and Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay city on the 2nd day.

Here's the list of restaurants we are going to visit for two days:

1st Day (August 9, 2016):

Uptown Mall

Italianni's

Texas Roadhouse
Moe's
Watami
Buffalo Wild Wings

BGC High Street
Village Tavern

2nd Day (August 10, 2016):
Greenbelt

Krazy Garlic
Tonkatsu by Terazawa

Mall of Asia
Fish & Co
Bulgogi Brothers
Modern Shanghai
TGI Friday's

Wazzup Pilipinas!

About 16 million people in the Philippines, according to published report, still do not have access to electricity, forming part of the 130 million in Southeast Asia who still live in the dark.

Indeed when we talk about poverty, most are focused solely on financial poverty but staggering numbers show that it is also in the barest necessity like electricity that people continue to be deprived of. Having identified such an issue, the pressing question lies in how are we solving it?

With a growing interest in battling climate change, it has been imperative for many impact-minded organizations to stand together to do its share in promoting energy entrepreneurship.

Eradicating Energy Poverty

With the aligned vision to educate, encourage and empower energy entrepreneurship in the country, Impact Hub Manila, World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines (WWF-Philippines) and Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF) have collaborated to search for ideas on sustainable energy solutions through the the Impact Hub Fellowship Program on Sustainable Energy Solutions.

After an application period of 5 weeks, 16 teams were pre-selected by the experts from Impact Hub Manila, PEF and WWF through a gruelling deliberation on July 28, 2016. The chosen entreprenuers were then given the opportunity to pitch before a jury panel. These judges awarded the 6 to 8 teams and gave them the opportunity to be part of the Cohort Phase.