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From delectable classic makis to the most exceptional flavours, Red Kimono continues to bring together superb modern and traditional elements of Japanese cuisine. As it turns 5, they Go Red and celebrate big with one of this year’s most exciting culinary challenges!

What if you had a free hand to decide what goes in your maki? As part of discovering new possibilities and to highlight its famous sushi selection, Red Kimono, in partnership with Destiny Cable, Speedo, Nike Park, Mossimo, Sanuk and Curves salutes its 5^th year with the “My Maki Masterpiece Challenge”.

Participants are encouraged to think out of the box – using unusual ingredients and taking inspiration from any type of cuisine – not necessarily Japanese. Makis are very easy and fun to make so even people who have never cooked may enter the contest. There are no restrictions whatsoever except that it must be a “roll”.  

Participants were required to submit a recipe, a photo of the finished Maki and a title for it. From all entries received, 10 will be pre-selected, and on one special evening hosted by Issa Litton the 10 finalists will be brought down to the 5 best makis chosen based on each recipe’s taste, creativity and presentation.  6 prominent personalities namely, actress, model, entrepreneur and jewellery designer Tweetie De Leon Gonzales, Chairman of the Philippine Marketing Association Ricky De Vera, from Philippine Wine Merchants and Ralph Wines & Spirits and also a popular DJ on 99.5RT Rob Joseph, Cultural activist and artist/performer – Carlos Celdran, Dean of Enderun College – Dr. Edgardo Rodriguez and Head of ABS CBN Publishing Ernie Lopez, will decide the 5 winners of this exciting contest.

The 5 winning makis will earn a place in Red Kimono’s Maki Masterpiece menu and will receive P5,000 in cash and P5,000 in Gift Certificates from Red Kimono

What started as a vision back in 2005, Red Kimono now stands out as one of the most successful restaurant chains known for their great tasting food, high quality service and amazing value. ‘Red’ symbolizes the modern, Western and innovative qualities while ‘Kimono’ represents the Eastern and traditional aspects of the brand. With its remarkable success, Red Kimono has expanded over the years with seven branches across the metropolis, Cebu and Pampanga.

Enjoy modern Japanese Cuisine and visit www.redkimono.com.ph

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We all treated dad for his birthday last week!  This is one of the best Shang Palace dinners for me because we had dishes which we were not the usual and we had never ordered these dishes before.   Heart2Heart liked them all 🙂 Thanks to John for choosing the food! We had sweet and sour pork but this time with walnuts.  The cod fillets with barbeque sauce was really good and is one of my favorite now, we also had it when we had lunch with Tita Vivian ( Shang Palace with Tita Vivian and Tats Sept 10, 2010). The stir fried noodles was so good especially with the bagoong on the side!  And the Prawns which we normally have with mayo ( Prawns salad ) , this time was with orange sauce.  Yummy! 🙂

 And everyone wanted a photo with Dad/Dada! We all love him!

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We attended a very interesting dinner last month. It was a great experience and we were so happy Dad and Mom took us along to the dinner. We hear so much raves about Tito Robbie and Tita Helen from Dad and Mom, so it was a priviledge to actually join them……. and we had an instant admiration for them.

Thank you Tito Robbie and Tita Helen for sharing your home and your beautiful family with us.

I normally feature people, food and table setting but this time, there were so many other things that were different from the usual 

Remember when I featured the ROUND DINING TABLE? ( Click on link below )

https://heart-2-heart-online.com/2008/07/22/the-round-dining-table/

Tito Robbie will not eat in any restaurant that does not have a round  dining table! Tito Robbie even has his own round table in Antonio’s whenever he goes there.  Now you know where Dad and Mom get the inspiration for their round table

This was our dining table that evening

And according to Tita Helen, his dining table keeps growing and growing. The table we had for dinner was good for 18 but the real table that will come will be good for 22.

Tita Helen also told me that there are 3 things that are required when having dinner with Tito Robbie

1.)  You have to remove your shoes and you have to wear slippers which they so kindly provide 🙂

2.)  You need to talk about yourself and update everyone of the latest things you have been up to.  For us since we were new to everyone, we just introduced ourselves. I am very very shy and don’t normally like talking about myself but I do enjoying listening to others talk because I learn so much from them.  That evening, everyone had to talk about themselves and not only did I learn a lot  from my seatmates ( which is what normally happens ) but it seems like I got to talk to the whole table and we were 17 all in all.  I noticed that in this dinner,  I could not concentrate on my food as I was very interested in listening to everyone.

 3.)  There must be a group photo after the dinner

 And this is what we had for dinner…..

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