The Ultimate Taste Test 2017 - List of 30+ Food Vendors
The Ultimate Taste Test (UTT) Pro Edition 2017 was recently held on September 2 and 3 of Glorietta Activity Center, Palm Drive. More than 30 home-based food vendors participated in this year's UTT, and foodies started to rave about how this could be the best UTT so far. Let's take a look!
How does UTT works?
Foodies who like to try unique and interesting dishes are invited to sample all the food offered by the vendors. They are given a passport to have an access to the food-tasting event. The passport also serves as a scoreboard to provide insights over the sampled dishes (rating scale of 1-5, with 5 being the highest).
To check out the results, you may view the page of Our Awesome Planet (to be updated), who is the organizer of the event.
30+ Food Vendors
There were 30+ food vendors that participated in this year's UTT. While I personally tried to taste 'em all, my belly was only able to accommodate 23.
Prosicuto Arugula Pizza
Margherita Pizza
Honey Garlic Chili Sauce
Pizza Grigliata Manila - Offers one of the best pizzas I've ever tasted. They showcased their Margherita, Bianca Quatro Formaggi, Prosciuto Arugula and Honey Garlic Sauce.
Roast Beef
Beef Barn - Offers an excellent tasting roast beef, very savory and distinct flavors that dances on the palate. Incredible!
Mushroom Dips
Spanish Sardines
Bottled Mushroom Dips and Spanish Sardines
GMCS Farm - Offers innovative dips that uses organic mushrooms. It's a fantastic alternative to the traditional dips/sauces.
Adobo sa Gata
Angus Beef Salpicao
Callos
Auntie May's - Offers quality home-cooked comfort dishes that is perfect for occasions!
USDA Premium Beef Tapa
TAPAddiction - Offers USDA Premium Beef Tapa rice meals for that old-time classic Filipino dish
Sisig Rice Balls
Broken Oven - Offers impressive concept of turning Pinoy classic into sumptuous balls
Blended Drinks
Blended Fruits and Herbs - Offers amazing concoctions of fruits and herbs to produce refreshing drinks!
Burger Spot
Burger Spot - Offers the El Burguesa which incorporates watermelon in its cheeseburger. Also offers extremely playfully hot sauces
5 Treasure Gyoza
Kirunch Japanese Fusion - Offers interesting collection of dishes from fusion of Chinese, Japanese and Singaporean cuisines
The OG Big Bad Chicken
Connor's Chicken and Waffles - Offers three incredible sauces poured over chicken and waffles. Ultimate comfort food!
Crab Paste
Native Gourmet - Offers delicious crab paste that is oozing with seafood goodness!
Katsu and Teriyaki Maki
Katsu House - Offers maki rolls and katsus that we commonly love!
Crazy Bao
Don Bao - Offers innovated buns or bao to capture newer flavors
Beef Randang Java
Sate Ayam (Chicken Satay)
Bakmi Nyonya - Offers Indonesian dishes with slight alterations to fit the Filipino buds
Charlie's Pritchon
Pritchon with Pita Bread
Charlie's Pritchon - Offers fried lechon or pritchon wrapped with a pita bread
Bula Long Bao and Tablea Xiao Long Bao
Sabaw Dumplings - Offers fusion of Filipino and Chinese cuisines with its Bulalo and Tablea Xiao Long Bao
OhGK! Drink
OhGK! - Offers natural and healthy oregano drink that is mixed with ginger, honey and calamsi. Plus, you'll be supporting local communities and farmers
Savory Balut Buns
Make Peace Bakery - Offers new concept of savory Filipino desserts such as the Balut Buns
Financiers
CINQ - Offers adorably packed delicate pastries and Earl Grey Turtles
Bibingka Cheesecake
Ted's Resto - Offers one of the very unique cheesecake concept. Impressively delicious!
Tablea Chocolate Ice Cream
Karabella - Offers refreshing ice cream made of fresh local carabao's milk
Other food vendors with which I either failed to try or snap photos of - Oink Oink Lechon Bagnet, Juan Cholo, Lotus Vu, JAM Foods, Antojos, Puto ni Papa, Make Peace Bakery and First Harvest
Finally, here's my honest rating of dishes It tried from the food vendors. Let's share our insights, please do drop your comments below.
It was totally a blast during this year's Ultimate Taste Test Pro Edition, all the vendors have something unique to offer. It may be too early, but let's begin the countdown for the next UTT in 2018. I'm sure we are in for a surprise! To get continuous updates, you can follow this blog or UTT's official Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/UltimateTasteTest/
