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Volume 3 | No. 37 | Cagayan de Oro City | April 16-22, 2016
The Night Stalker:
Ah Fong Asian Cuisine opens at SM City Cagayan de Oro
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h Fong Asian Cuisine has moved and opened to its new location at SM City Cagayan de Oro!
Last Friday, April 15 we were invited by owner and current COHARA President Nelia Lee to its blessing and soft opening at its new site located just a door away from the SM City CDO Rotunda. Great new location if you ask me, and immediately the increased customer traffic and SM’s vast parking spaces redounds to the benefit of both the resto and its faithful clientele. Originally situated at one of the new lifestyle districts downtown, Ms. Lee chose to move it Uptown to SM mainly because the she wasn’t getting enough of the clientele she knows would appreciate its Asian Fusion menu best.
Nelia knows her culinary chops, being the former manager of Dynasty Hotel and Restaurant, which had the distinction of being one of only four Cagayan de Oro restaurants selected among the ten best in the Philippines for pancit canton in Unilever’s “Sooo Pinoy National Search for the Ultimate Pinoy Dish” some four years ago. She’s also one of the founders of COHARA, the Cagayan de Oro Hotels and Restaurant Association, and its landmark Kumbira, the largest culinary event outside Metro Manila which will be having its 20th edition during Cagayan de Oro’s fiesta
month this August. In response to her invitation, the core group of her fellow members in the Cagayan de Oro City Tourism Council led by no less than former DOT-X Director and now CTC Chair Dottie Pabayo came in force, as did her loyal colleagues from COHARA. Also spotted in the crown of VIPs were DOT-X Reg. Dir. Butch Chan and his office mates, as well as Nelia’s relatives and friends from the local FilipinoChinese community. Best of luck to our fellow CTC and COHARA colleague Nelia and her hard working and professional staff in your new location! We know Cagayan de Oro will be the better for it! God bless your new enterprise! (Photos by Mike Baños and Ivy Nelia Lee with Eileen San Juan, Butch Chan and son, Dodong Chaves, Saz Eullaran and Ivy Guantero. Guantero)
The Night Stalker:
Weekend Sojourn at Belmont Hotel Manila
With Chef Dean and Aizel at Belmont Cafe
Just came from an overnight stay in Belmont Hotel in Newport City conveniently located right across NAIA III. Next best thing about this location? You don’t have to queue up for a ride even if no one’s
coming to fetch you. The Resorts World Manila coach bus is just off to the right and you can hitch a ride for free to Belmont! And you can take the same bus for your departing flight! I was booked at Room 1031 on the 10th floor so
even if there was a lot of construction work going on in the neighborhood, I was insulated from the street noise and had a good night’s sleep at the comfy double bed, and wonders of wonders! 26Mbps internet! For this alone, many travelers
would already make a beeline for Belmont. Since it’s just starting up, some spots needs polishing but the most important thing-the staff ’s hospitality is outstanding. Truly a showcase of the belmont/PAGE 7
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