Asia Food Expo: Roasted Chicken is a Hit!!! (Check-out Chooks-to-Go at the Supermarket for P169 only)

Chooks-to-Go is a product of Bounty Fresh and thru their partner-Supermarket, they are selling so much!!! The chicken is marinated and for the price, it is even cheaper than Andok's or Baliuag. AND IT TASTE SO GOOD!!!

At the Asia Food Expo 2010 or AFEX 2010, I saw displayed at the HKR booth a Henny Penny Rotisserrie, which is like the Mercedes-Benz of Rotisseries made in USA. It runs on electrics (as required by some malls) and costs a heart-stopping P365,000, more or less. There are LPG-powered units that cost a lot less but check first with the mall if they allow LPG-fired rotisseries.

This could be another Fad or it could stay for a long time if you can keep the cost down. Shopwise has been selling their hickory-flavored, garlic-flavored etc roasted chickens and they used to always get sold out.

Beats having to cook at home when both couple are working.

ASIA FOOD EXPO 2010: How About Swiss-made Brewed Coffee in a Capsule for Just P30 per cup? Think of the Profits You Could Make Selling a Cup at P70!!

During the Asia Food Expo 2010 or "AFEX 2010, I came across Nespresso. I thought it is Nestle but it is not. Nespresso is also from Switzerland (as the Nestle Corporate Office is also there) and they have a NEW WAY OF SELLING BREWED COFFEE:

1. They have their own proprietary Nespresso Espresso Machine

2. The coffee beans have already been ground and I think vacuum-sealed into capsules (see the green round thing beside the Expresso Machine in the pic below)



3. You place a cup under the spout, insert the capsule into the slot & press the button for 1 cup. Needles inside the machine pierces the capsule and as with an Espresso machine, high-pressure steam meets the ground coffee.

4. Taste is supposed to be better as the steam hits the coffee capsule at a much higher pressure than ordinary espresso machines.

5. I was surprised that the coffee showed a prominent CREMA (coffee froth) on top of the coffee.

6. Capsules come in different coffee strengths to suit taste.

7. Lastly, each capsule cost P30 ONLY meaning you could make a GOOD MARKUP.

8. Machines start at P60,000 plus or minus and up depending on the features (automatic, semi-auto or manual)

AFEX 2010: ASIA FOOD EXPO: Want to Start Your Own Mr. Softy or Snowpy Soft Serve Ice Cream? Then, You Need This.

At the huge Technolux booth is the Taylor Soft-serve Ice Cream made in the US of A. High-Quality. Maybe the Rolls Royce of Soft serve ice cream. This is the same machine used by Jollibee for all their Rocky Road sundaes. The machine is not cheap, about P265,000 (vs maybe P50,000 for the Taiwan brand) but Technolux claim a higher 40% more yield per kilo of soft serve ice cream mix!!! Do the math.

For those who cannot afford a Rolls Royce, there were also soft serve ice cream machines made in Taiwan, Korea (cost as much as Taylor, don't know why) and China, I think.



Don't decide on cost alone. You have to think about yield (or how many cones can you do with a kilo of mix, after sales service when it breaks down and it will, availability of parts etc).

AFEX 2010: ASIA FOOD EXPO: Food Ingredients from Cosmic Chemical

I came across Cosmic Chemical as they had on display freshly-baked Pork Floss Bread a la Bread Talk.

Though the size displayed was about 3/4 the size of Bread Talk, I was surprised when the exhibitor said food cost with the pork floss is only P5/pc (P3.50/pc without pork floss).

And if you must have pork floss, the cosmic guy said he knows of a baker in Davao who uses pork floss lookalike but it is much cheaper because it is made of soya!!! Imagine pork floss taste without the fat!!!!

Also, displayed where donuts in a different shape made from their food ingredient and donut maker.

AFEX 2010: The Asia Food Expo: When You Want to Start Your Own Food Business

It has been a flurry of Food and Franchising Expos week after week after week. After so many talk about franchising. I want to present to you a different kind of Food Expo where you get a chance to TRY OUT YOUR NEW FOOD IDEA AND TURN IT INTO A SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. I am talking about the Asia Food Expo.

In the coming days, I will feature the different things I saw at the AFEX 2010 Expo and what it means to the would-be small business owner who wants to try something on his own or cannot afford the steep steep franchise fee and want to do his own thing, including scramble.

Displayed at the Afex 2010 are equipment, flavorings and even demos by real chefs who will show you how to do it and even provide the recipes and costings for you to start your own bakeshop, for instance.


Above pic shows a chef from Handyware Phils showing the long lines of viewers how to make pastry from food preparation to actual baking.