We all have our own favorite restaurants, whether it be a regular fast food chain, a neighborhood burger outlet, or a romantic fine dining destination restaurant that you travel hours just to visit. Don’t you often wonder why your favorite restaurants sometimes do not seem to make it to the top ten rankings or awards that we often hear about? Now is your chance to finally be heard!
Our Awesome Planet and the Blogger Collective known as the KTG (Kain Tulog Gang) which The Hungry Kat is a member of, have partnered to conduct the first ever People's Choice Awards for their Favorite Food, Restaurants, Bars, and others, or simply, "The Choice". We already conducted an intense first round of voting among ourselves, and our resulting Top Tens have resulted in a very diverse and fair representation of all our Metro Manila favorites. The categories are very broad, as they should be in a democratic vote. However, we'd like to emphasize that this is NOT a "Best of..." list. Our good friends and respected colleagues from Manila’s Best Kept Restaurant Secrets (MBKRS) Awards are doing an excellent job of recognizing the restaurants and restaurateurs in their prestigious bi-annual awards. The MBKRS are rightly regarded as the Oscars of our ever growing foodie community. So we'd like "The Choice" to be the Golden Globes - a bit more irreverent, surely less formal, and yes, it ought to be greatly biased. After all, YOU will be voting for your favorites, this is YOUR CHOICE!!!
Please click the link below to participate and answer the survey:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/TheChoice2015
The results of The Choice will be announced at the first Blosomex (Blogging and Social Media Expo) on August 8, 2015 Saturday at the SMX Mall of Asia. Our Awesome Planet, the Philippines #1 Food and Travel Blog and the Kain Tulog Gang (KTG), a collective of the top food and lifestyle bloggers in Manila, in cooperation with Vikings, NIU, and Four Seasons restaurants present the first BLOSOMEX, a co-located event of the country's biggest and ultimate food show experience, the World Food Expo (WOFEX) which focuses on exploding the commercial activity in the blogging and social media scene in the Philippines in 2015 and beyond. Blosomex aims to be the catalyst in preparing both the businesses and the bloggers/social media practitioners to take commercial advantage of the digital opportunities.
The Survey Parameters
1. There are 45 questions in this survey and answering this survey should take around 5-10 minutes. It is best to give a definitive answer on each question and feel free to skip if you can't decide.
2. For the Favorite New Restaurant category, our coverage period includes restaurants that opened between May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2015.
3. For the Favorite Out-of-Town Destination, the restaurants must be reached by land in 5 hours; thanks to the TPLex, that includes Baguio!
4. All answers are treated confidential and final once you click on the submit button. One survey response for one person only.
5. Please give your name and email address for random validation of the survey responses.
The KTG:
"The KTG is a group of friends who all just happen to be some of the top food bloggers in the Philippines; every one of their individual blogs ranks among the highest ranking and most influential online publications dedicated to food, entertainment, and travel. The KTG is composed of some of the more senior food bloggers in the country, including Richie Zamora of "The Pickiest Eater in the World', and Richard Co of 'Tales from the Tummy'. Representing the younger generation is "The Hefty Foodie" and from the world of showbiz, Mr. Chuckie Dreyfus, a foodie who's also a respected tech blogger.
The KTG's objectives are not limited to discovering the best restaurants, however. While it's affectionately called the "Kain Tulog Gang", it's officially participated in relief efforts in Tacloban and Iloilo after Yolanda; and in Metro Manila, this "Kapatiran sa Tulong at Ginhawa" is on a constant mission to contribute in providing joy and comfort to the less fortunate."
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http://www.clickthecity.com/
http://www.juice.ph/ and
the Philippine Star's "Let's Eat" magazine, now nationwide every last Sunday of the month.
To purchase tickets for the BLOSOMEX Summit, please email [email protected]. Early Bird Registration is P1,497 while regular Walk-In Price is P2,000.
PROGRAMME:
8:00am - 9:30am: Registration
9:45am - 10:00am: Introduction
10:00am - 10:30am: ANTON DIAZ, Founder, OurAwesomePlanet.com
Keynote: "State of Food and Travel Blogging in the Philippines"
