Join the Lucky Chinatown Tour
and discover Chinese culture at the awesome food & culture secrets of Chinatown Manila
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The
LUCKY CHINATOWN walk way where the Awesome Food and Culture: Secrets of
Lucky Chinatown is held every Saturday. Most of the food stalls
featured in the tour are not around on weekdays. Experience the First Awesome Food and Culture Tour: Secrets of Lucky Chinatown.
It's one of a kind. The tour is a can’t miss experience and will run
for 4 hours, from 11:00AM to 3:00PM on May 10, 24 and 31 and on June 7,
2014. Each batch is limited only to 30 persons. Hurry up, buy your
ticket now. Guests can buy tickets at the Lucky Chinatown
Concierge or the Eastwood Mall Concierge. For more info call the Lucky
Chinatown Concierge at 576-8139 or visit www.megaworldlifestylemalls.com |
This time, Mercato Centrale set up a wonderful food and culture tour in Binondo, Manila. Ms. Tinay Magtira, the Communications Manager of Megaworld Lifestyle Malls wrote the following:
One of the world’s oldest Chinatowns, Binondo lies at the heart of the Filipino Chinese experience and walking its
streets is a great way to discover Chinese culture, from its deeply rooted
religious practices to its delectable cuisine.
This May, Lucky Chinatown, a heritage
project of Megaworld Lifestyle Malls in Binondo, will be the place to go to
explore some of these fascinating traditions at the Awesome Food and Culture Secrets of Lucky Chinatown Tour.
Hosted
by Our Awesome Planet’s Anton Diaz
and Mercato Group’s RJ Ledesma, the food and culture tour costs only P888 and will
run for 4 hours, from 11:00AM to 3:00PM on May 10, 24 and 31 and on June 7, 2014.
Guests can buy tickets at the Lucky Chinatown Concierge or the Eastwood Mall
Concierge.
At the intimate launch of the tour, guests
were able to sample a variety of authentic Chinese dishes and learn more about
Chinese traditions. The first stop was at the Botanical Herbal Hall at Lucky
Chinatown Annex A, where Chinese tea was served. Tea is well known for its medicinal benefits
and is believed to have been enjoyed by the Chinese for more than 4,000 years.
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HONGKONG
BOTANICAL HERBAL HEALTHY TEA are not the conventional tea we found in
the Awesome Food and Culture tour in Lucky Chinatown. They are from
brewed organic dried fruits and flowers. No preservative and no
sugar added as they are naturally sweet and refreshing. Each flavor has
distinct medicinal benefit to drinkers. You can have the the Plum tea,
LO'5 Tea, the May Bloom Tea, or the Pear'c Tea (in that order from Left to
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Guests were able to taste different teas
like the Lo’5 or Momordica Grosvenor Five Flowers Tea, with Oriental Wormwood,
Chrysanthemum, Honeysuckle, Selfheal and Kapok, which can help reduce phlegm,
the Snow Pear Chrysanthemum Tea, said to improve eyesight, Maybloom tea, which
is good for lowering lipids and Plum Tea, which aids digestion.
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Offering a prayer with incense in Miao De Amituofo Pureland |
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Teaching how to hold an incense and offer a prayer at the Miao De Amituofo Pureland |
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Some books and literary prints about Buddha are given away for free by the Miao De Amituofo Pureland to the participants
of the Lucky Chinatown Awesome Food Culture tour |
Their second stop was at the Miao De Temple,
where they were able to light incense and learn more about the meaning of this
age-old ritual. Next was a feast of delicious dishes at the Chinatown Walk –
from Fu Dao Dumpling, Sate Seafood Noodles with Dumplings were served, while
Cha Cha Food House dished up Wanton Noodles and Pumpkin Cake (said to be good
for the skin), two dishes popular in the northern region of China. Other
Fil-Chi favorites like Cua Pao, Maki Mi and fresh lumpia was also on the menu,
courtesy of Mr. Fast Foo.
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Reflexion Studio |
At Reflexion’s Studio, guests were able to
learn more about traditional Chinese wedding and engagement practices, for example,
the tea ceremony and “teng hun” described as an act of wedding etiquette performed
by the soon-to-be-wed couple before their wedding. Guests were also able to
take home a commemorative photo of their tour group.
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Phoenix Dragon - The Feng Shui Store |
Wellness Sanctuary also offers Fish Spa
Therapy services wherein tiny fish, called the Doctor Fish, clean off the dead skin in various parts of the
customer’s body.
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BIRTHDAY
NOODLE is with very long noodles and thick soup with shrimps, coated
quail egg, fish balls, and fish fillet, thinly sliced pork, and bokchoy
leaves. Ideally served when wishing a long-life to the birthday
celebrant. It is offered at the Tao Yuan Restaurant |
The experience, both cleansing and relaxing, was
followed by a sampling of another traditional Chinese food practice – the
lavish lauriat. The word "lauriat"
is actually derived from the Fookien dialect and means special occasion. A lauriat usually
consists of at least 10 special dishes and dining lasts for hours.
Guests were able to try some of Tao Yuan’s best-sellers like their delicious Mango
Lapu-Lapu, which is fried lapu-lapu with ripe mango and green mango sauce and
their Hainan Chicken with Chicken Rice.
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MANGO LAPU-LAPU is an original recipe created by Tao Yuan Restaurant.
It is actually an upgraded variation of sweet-and-sour fish. The
lapu-lapu (grouper) is deep fried similar to Tagalog "binukadkad"then
laid flat on sweet-and-sour sauce made with a special Singaporean sauce
with finely chopped red chilis, and the fried fish is topped with
shredded ripe mango and garnished with sliced cucumber, tomatoes,
onions, capsicum, and ginger |
“Being
a heritage project, Lucky Chinatown is committed to showcasing the best in
Filipino-Chinese culture. So we are very excited to partner with food experts
like Anton Diaz and RJ Ledesma to bring people the Awesome Food and Culture Secrets of Lucky Chinatown Tour this
summer. It’s a great introduction to different aspects of Chinese culture and
the variety of Chinese cuisine, all in one place,” said Kevin L. Tan, First
Vice President and Commercial Division Head of Megaworld Corporation.
For
recreation lovers and foodies, this tour is a can’t miss experience! For more
information on Awesome Food and Culture
Secrets of Lucky Chinatown, please call the Lucky Chinatown Concierge at
576-8139 or visit www.megaworldlifestylemalls.com