The Cebu Food Expo 2009. My wife and I always find time to attend this expo every year. Although this time, we’re on a rush because we only have 1 hour before our meeting at Ayala Center Cebu. Hey! It’s a food expo and I love food!

If you didn’t pre-register online, then you’ll have to fill up a form and line up.

Oh, there’s a photo contest but Nah! no time for this one, I’m here for the FOOD! expo.

Is that a beehive? This thing overhead, hanging on the ceiling looks very impressive, I like it.

Aaah!!! The first signs of free food, free drinks right when you get inside. This is Sjora, a new product of Nestle. Tastes good actually. This will be my new, regular beverage everytime I eat at fast foods.

What’s this? A mobile sari-sari store!? Cool!!!

I thought they invented a machine that can print food!!! Oh, just in case you’re wondering what these printers are doing here in the Food Expo, don’t worry, that makes two of us. Hahahahahaa Ok serious now. This isn’t just an expo of food, here you will also see the machines used in the food industry. Yeah, I know. It still doesn’t explain what they’re doing here. Hahahaa

I know it’s a long scroll down to this part already and you’re probably asking, where the hell are the food? Well here they are!

More food that way…
and

that way too.

Ok, most of them sell the food they display. Some give you samples but they are so small, they make your stomach ache instead. So after all the suffering of being given tiny samples, we decide to buy snacks. Here we tried the Siomai from Siomai House. The siomai is ok. I guess I got used to the taste of Siomai sa Tisa

Aha! A celebrity chef! Chef Bruce Lim from the show Tablescapes (Studio 23). I wish he was cooking something and serving them out to the guests and free. He could have saved the entire food expo and proved to the rest that a food expo must have good food! A car expo displays cars!

Left: Chef Bruce Lim calling me. Yes we’re friends and here he is trying to shake my hand. Ahahahaha! Right: Chef Bruce Lim and Tisha. Yeah my wife and I are a fan of Cooking Shows on local TV (Chef Bruce Lim – Tablescapes (Studio 23) and Chef Rosebud Benitez – Quick Fire (Q Channel).

Overall, the expo is a success in a way that it’s much bigger and has more attendance than the previous years. (poor souls got scammed thinking there’re plenty of free food ) As a consumer however, I wasn’t that impressed, but I guess this expo was geared more on the business owners and potential investors rather than the regular consumers. Probably why there were more machines than the actual food. If I had my wish? I’d wish the Iron Chefs of America were here and serving food to everyone and for FREE of course hahahaha