Experiencing PANDA PLATES: Flavors of the World in Quezon City

 

Manmaru Japanese Restaurant, Pandan Asian Cafe took out their best dishes!

There's often a discussion between friends and family where to eat, but I think this doesn't happen often in Quezon City. Here, we've got choices, choices that you don't have (I kid!). Oh how I love being in my hood, and people know it. Imagine, you can feel like you've been around the world just by going through several restaurants in Tomas Morato. This is the experience done courtesy of the folks from foodpanda. They properly call it PANDA PLATES: Flavors of the World in Quezon City. Hold on to your seats because this is good! 

Chili's Tomas Morato had Half Slab of Ribs, Truffle Burgers, Molten Chocolate and Salmon.

 

As you can see, Quezon City did not disappoint when it comes to food from around the world. We also went to BASTA Cafe in Kamuning, pick ups from Dulcinea in Tomas Morato, had deliveries from Amici in the Scout Area and end with a feast at CHILI's in Tomas Morato. You can literally walk to these establishments but might take a while in some of them. Good thing we've got the foodpanda app to ease the burden on folks during this rainy afternoon. 

The Quezon City Tourism Department's Ms. Yasi Jorge told us this is one of the city's best culinary destination and they're glad that foodpanda is doing it here. It has been a vibrant way of showcasing food culture, tradition and innovation. Every street offers new flavors, a new story, and great experience. They're happy to be a part of the gathering that makes food from this place shine. There's a lot of home grown restaurants and establishments in this place and they're raring to welcome guests even more. Added it's a culinary capital that is worthy to be explored. This gives emphasis to give support in everything local. The dining culture is alive and thriving in QC, and definitely more to explore!

Ms. Jade Legazpi foodpanda's Senior Account Manager also shared how they'll be launching promos specifically during Quezon City's founding anniversary. This was on October 12th where they gave up to 20 percent discount on QC restaurants, so make sure you follow foodpanda's social media channels so you wouldn't miss promos like it in the future. foodpanda's Jerome Mangahas also awarded winning participants in the days event. It was really fund and we didn't go home hungry, thanks foodpanda!

Can't wait to have another one of these food crawls happen soon!

Bigger Savings on pandapro "PROWeeks" by foodpanda

If you haven't heard of it yet, the folks from foodpanda started their biggest offers for the country's top brands on their app. They call it "PRO Weeks" which is exclusive for pandapro subscribers which will run from September 1-15, that's over 2 weeks of unadulterated discounts that could get you up to 50 percent off the price of your favorite food establishments, something you should take advantage of now!

According to foodpanda's Growth and Marketing Director Ms. Pat Jacinto, making the experience of ordering food online more convenient and affordable has always been their primary goal and in these PRO Weeks, they would be able to make people feel how it is to become a pandapro subscriber. With the tons of discounts and free delivery perks they get from restaurants and establishments on the app, you get to save a LOT even from your favorite grocery store Pandamart. If that's not enough, take that savings further with the folks from Robinsons Supermarket or Puregold because you can stack those vouchers and avail of the special bundles they have on different products too. 

I'm sure this will be so attractive for existing pandapro members and will encourage new ones to subscribe to it so you get hooked up with these perks all year round! Mind you it's cheaper to actually get a 1 year plan because it'll cost Php 33.30 per month, even get you the subscription for FREE for one month (where available) oh that's going to be so good to experience for your next meal and supermarket order. 

This is certainly the best deal out there, and it's not a drill. It's real and super affordable, don't take my word for it. Go install the foodpanda app from Google Play of the App Store because I'm enjoying it so much I didn't cook for several days. It's that convenient! 

TEAM PAWPAW Wins 2025 PANDA LEGENDS Ride and Conquer Grand Finals

foodpanda just concluded their 2025 PANDA LEGENDS Ride and Conquer Grand Finals at the Luxent Hotel in Quezon City. After grueling months of eliminations in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and Metro Manila, they only have 2 teams left to vie for the coveted trophy. 

Team Pawpaw from Manila

Team MTS from Davao

Team PAWPAW and Team MTS had to survive a best of 5 series, which is not going to be easy. They had to go through several skirmishes to get here, and the finals match proved to be super difficult because they haven't had a chance to face each other prior to the finals match, they had no clue about their play styles and resorted to banning their MVP characters early on.

Much of their picks are assassins, marksmen, support and mages. Tanks are not meta?

Just to give you a picture, in Manila alone, they had 7K registrants, which they had to screen and arrange them all for eliminations. Today they held several rounds to pick the final 2 in the morning, so they're pretty much the best of the best riders for the Panda Legends tournament. Overall, they had 224 teams from 6 regions, with one goal, to win this all!

Team Pawpaw is from Manila, while Team MTS from Davao. 

I also heard some of the other teams were there at the venue: 

Pandamay from Cebu

South Riders from South Manila

Panda Warriors

The winner will get 240,000 pesos. That's definitely going to change lives if they win!

When the dust settled, TEAM PAWPAW from Metro Manila won the championship. They got to take home their cash prize and the trophy. Second place winner Team MTS didn't go empty handed because they also got huge home Bluetooth speakers and cash prizes too because they are basically winners of their own regions.

Congratulations to Team Pawpaw! How I wish I could join the games next year!