Cravings don’t know a schedule. It just hits us. Sometimes, it’s due to emotions. Sometimes, it’s your body needing fuel. Sometimes, it’s getting envious over an officemate’s baon.
Whatever the reason, the hardest part is to answer that craving. It’s 2 am and you want to chow down on chicken. Or that 4 pm merienda can’t wait until the big family dinner so it has to be light and filling. What to do? There’s an answer found in the five picks below.
1. 99 Sulit Chicken
Affordable, satisfying, and fast. These make 99 Sulit Chicken a winner when you want that classic combo of protein and carbs. Offering more than just the usual, you get restaurant-style options like Chicken Karaage and Chicken Nuggets with various dips and sauces.
2. Great Greens
Salad or wrap? You can get both at any time of the day with Great Greens. It’s for those of you who want a healthy meal whether to start the day right or to tide you over until you get to the main course. Picks like the Tomato and Feta Salad or Kani Wrap are perfect on their own or as an add-on to completely satiate your palate.
3. Healthy to Go
You’ve just finished an intense workout and don’t want your effort to go to waste. But you need the fix immediately and don’t have time to cook up something? It’s why you can have Healthy to Go. It’s for the busy individual with specific goals. Get the Quorn Asian Salad or Healthy Chicken Burrito to see you through your nutritious kick.
4. 24/7 Eats
Some cravings are not quick bites. They are particular meals that feed your emotional hunger as well. You know those moments we are talking about. It’s when you need that serving of Crispy Pork Sinigang Fried Rice or Samgyup Beef Bowl. 24/7 Eats uniquely combines several cuisines so you don’t have to go through different menus to get what you want.
5. Bolzico Beef To Go
Nothing hits the spot like a good beef dish. With Bolzico Beef To Go, you don’t have to wait for a big lunch or for the special dinner to give into a Bolzico Birria Quesadilla or a Bolzico Carne Asada Rice Bowl. You can get it anytime and enjoy any of these anywhere you are with just a few taps on your smartphone.
99 Sulit Chicken, Great Greens, Healthy To Go, 24/7 Eats, and Bolzico Beef to Go are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week via GrabFood and FoodPanda.
CloudEats has launched another brand that’s created in collaboration with two of today’s biggest Filipino celebrities– real-life couple Gabbi Garcia and Khalil Ramos.
Meat Up with Gabbi & Khalil is the latest celebrity-owned CloudEats brand that focuses on steaks, with the aim of making the fancy dish more affordable and accessible to everyone in the city, without compromising its expected quality.
CloudEats, the restaurant group of cloud kitchens has already collaborated with the likes of Pia Wurtzbach, Rhian Ramos, and more, offering food delivery options with the preservation of the elevated dining experience in mind.
Sumptuous Steak & Roast Beef Offerings
The highlights of Meat Up’s current menu are three steak dishes that can cover your different cravings throughout the day– a menu created by CloudEats’ Chef Carlo Miguel with dishes handpicked by Gabbi and Khalil themselves.
Their Steak Salad is perfect for one’s light but meat-seeking cravings. It’s a delish Bolzico beef steak smacked on top of a bed of vegetables, fusing both the goodness of meat and leafy greens.
For a fancy meal at home, their Roast Beef with Rice is the way to go! Enjoy a sumptuous roast beef steak with creamy gravy, garnished with corn, carrots, and string beans, and served with some hot rice to complete a perfect match.
Solve your snack time musings with their BBQ Roast Beef Sandwich! Revel in a BBQ-infused roast beef with caramelized onions and wasabi mayo, packed between soft brioche buns.
“It’s like food bowls with steak for every occasion, so you can make everyday special with Meat Up,” explains Gabbi Garcia. “We both love going on date nights, and one of our favorite foods to eat is steak. Who doesn’t love steak? Meat Up is exactly that,” adds Khalil Ramos.
Give in to Your Cravings via GrabFood
Ready to have a Meat Up with Gabbi and Khalil’s curated lineup of savory and meaty offerings? You can now order from Meat Up hassle-free and available 24/7, exclusively via GrabFood. For more information, visit Meat Up with Gabbi & Khalil’s social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. You can also visit the CloudEats website.
Pia Wurtzbach first claimed international fame after winning the revered Miss Universe Crown in 2015. But aside from being a beauty queen, Wurtzbach has also taken multiple paths throughout her career, including acting, writing, and now, food entrepreneurship. After all, the Miss Universe finished Culinary Arts at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies, so her background in food is rooted deeper than just being a foodie!
For Wurtzbach’s business venture, she had collaborated with the cloud restaurant group CloudEats to bring to life Pia’s Kitchen. This cloud kitchen combines Wurtzbach’s love for food and travel, with the brand wittingly incorporating flight and travel emblems in their packaging. But what really makes Pia’s Kitchen stand out is its traveling menu, which changes cuisines every few months. For instance, Pia’s Kitchen currently has a curated Japanese lineup, soon to be switched for a Southeast Asian cuisine roster.
If you’re curious about Pia Wurtzbach’s love for food and her experience in conceptualizing and running her own food business, check out our foodie Q&A below:
You’ve been to different parts of the world and now you have your own brand serving different cuisines. Personally, what are your top 3 favorite cuisines?
Pia Wurtzbach: I really love Asian cuisine, so, in no particular order , I love Thai, I also love Japanese, and nothing beats home, soI also love Filipino food.
How did you get the idea of having a travelling menu, each offering a different cuisine, for Pia’s Kitchen?
PW: We just wanted to do something different because there are a few brands under Cloudeats already. So I was thinking of how I can set myself apart and how I can offer something new and different. I know for a fact that Filipinos love to try new things all the time. We love mixing it up and jumping from one flavor to another, and I am the same. So I was thinking, why don’t we change the menu every 3 months? Because I did not want to stick to just one particular cuisine where we do Japanese forever. I would eventually want to try Thai, Filipino, South American, Mediterranean, and I don’t think this has been done before so that is why I wanted to do that.
For you, what is the best part of being the owner of Pia’s Kitchen?
PW: The best part is that I get to do all these food tastings and real talk with the dishes, these are really my go-to dishes when I want to reward myself. My family and friends know that I love a bowl of chicken katsu curry after a day of shooting. It makes me happy. These are dishes that I handpicked myself. And I also have culinary training so it’s been a while since I tapped into that side of me. So it’s nice to bring the foodie back.
Among all your recent travels, what are the meals that have stood out?
PW: Oh, there are so many! I love rice. So anything with rice. I cant wait until we eventually do Middle Eastern cuisine because I have been spending a lot of time there. We’re actually kind of based there now, even if I still fly to Manila a lot. I’m looking forward to having Middle Eastern as part of the menu.
What is your favorite Filipino food?
PW: Tinola, sinigang, bola bola na may misua. I love rice drowning in soup! That’s the best!
PW: Carbs, for sure. Let’s be honest, that’s the food that makes everyone happy. Rice, pasta, I also really enjoy. I don’t really restrict myself when it comes to flavor, I love tasting everything.
What’s your favorite drink?
PW: Yes, I do love milk tea. I think milk tea is a dessert in itself, depending how sweet you want it. If not milk tea, I’m really going to admit I love drinking soda. How can you eat rice without a soda beside you? Mag-partner yan!
Do you also have any unusual food combinations that you actually enjoy eating?
PW: I enjoy mixing salty and sweet food. I think most Filipinos love sauces. Not even just one sauce, sometimes two sauces. Sometimes they even have calamansi. So I love having a variety of sauces with my meals. That’s why when we were doing this menu, I was particular about the sauces because that’s what makes the dish. An unusual food combination I’ve tried is apples in soy sauce before. It was just a craving where I wanted something sweet and fresh while having something savory. It was weird but it really hit the spot!
If you can host a dinner with meals from Pia’s Kitchen, who do you want to feed and what would you serve them?
PW: I would choose my family, because they haven’t been to Manila since the start of the pandemic because although they know about the brand, they can’t order it in the UK. So I would like to have them over and try what we’ve been working on these months. Let’s keep it in the family! I would serve them everything! Personally, whenever I order Pia’s kitchen at home, I would order everything on the menu so that I can test and try everything. So, when my family is here, I would want to make them try everything.
Order now at Pia’s Kitchen in just a few taps! Their dishes are available 24/7 via GrabFood with prices ranging from P150 to P300. For more information, visit the social media pages of Pia’s Kitchen on Facebook and Instagram. You can also visit the CloudEats website.
Ready your palates for take-off and taste the rich flavors of Japan from the comfort of your own home!
Pia’s Kitchen, a CloudEats brand created in collaboration with none other than 2015 Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach, is set to deliver different cuisines from around the world through their traveling menu which changes cuisines every few months. Right now, their menu offers sumptuous dishes from Japan perfected for deliveries and home consumption.
In case you didn’t know, CloudEats is a restaurant group that operates with cloud kitchens, meaning they are solely available for delivery. Thus, they make sure that their food remains presentable, IG-worthy even, and the quality remains throughout the whole delivery process: from their kitchens to your door!
Before becoming a beauty queen and the Miss Universe, Pia Wurtzbach studied culinary arts at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies (CACS). At a recent exclusive tasting event for Pia’s Kitchen held at the CloudEats Test Kitchen in BGC, Wurtzbach recalls how she started this business venture.
“It’s been a while since I got in touch with my culinary roots, but it’s always been at the back of my mind. I love food, hindi na mawawala sa’kin yan. Especially now that I’ve been traveling a lot, I’ve been exposed to so many different cuisines and flavors, and it’s been such a dream. Also now that I’m in a phase in my life where I really wanna have my own businesses, I am really into trying my hands at entrepreneurship. So when the opportunity came to work with CloudEats on a project like this, I said yes right away because it was exactly what I was looking for,” the beauty queen shared.
A trip to Japan through food
While Pia’s Kitchen is set to deliver different food from different cuisines, each menu is carefully curated by Pia and Chef Carlo Miguel to really tackle your tastebuds with its chosen flavors for the season. Their current Japanese menu, for example, really embraces the food in Japan that carry both quality and convenience.
During the tasting event, we started with a sampler of their Spam Sando, a filling sandwich that combines the lip-smacking flavors of SPAM, scrambled eggs, spring onions, and their Umami Sauce.
A sampler of the Spam Sando
For sandwich lovers, they also offer other Sandos such as the Beef Sando made with a homemade beef patty, cheddar cheese, caramelized onion, and Umami Sauce; their Kani Sando with Spicy Kani and hardboiled egg; and Quorn Katsu Sando with Quorn Fillet, Teriyaki and Umami Sauce, and fresh cabbage.
If you’re going for some greens, their Salmon Teriyaki Salad is really a solid choice. Its perfectly seared salmon glazed in Teriyaki Sauce is so soft and rich in flavor while the combination of fresh vegetables and fruits– Romaine, red cabbage, cucumber, mango, red onion, and quinoa– further elevated by their Asian Salad Dressing really freshens up one’s palate.
Salmon Teriyaki Salad
If you’re a fan of spicy food, you can also try their Spicy Kani Salad made with fresh greens, furikake, ebiko, and ripe mangoes mixed with a salad of Kani with a spicy mayo dressing.
The love for a hot bowl of rice with some flavorful ulam is something we Filipinos and the Japanese share. At Pia’s Kitchen, you can choose from a tempting roster of donburi meals!
We got to try their Chicken Katsu Curry, which has a Panko-crusted chicken thigh fillet that has tender meat under its crispy coating, a separate curry sauce you can add to your liking, and pickled red onions, jicama, and carrots to garnish. The striking flavor of the curry really speaks authenticity, beckoning the diner to chow it all down in no time.
Chicken Katsu Curry
Another rice meal we got to dig into is their Beef Gyudon. Thinly sliced, its beef is really tender and bursting with flavor. The poached egg also gives this flavor balance while the onions complete the components for every satisfying spoonful.
Beef Gyudon
Aside from these two, here are more donburi meals from Pia’s Kitchen: Pork Katsu Curry, Pork Katsudon, Salmon Teriyaki Bowl, and Beef Curry Rice. If you crave something more packed with flavors and ingredients, they also have a Spam Musubi Bake made with sushi rice, Spam cubes, Tebasaki sauce, savory cream cheese, and furikake.
As for their desserts lineup, we got to try a sampler of their Egg Tart, which has a crisp and flaky tart and a soft custard center that has the right amount of sweetness. They also have the Milk Tea Egg Tarts which are infused with milk tea flavor and topped with boba pearls. Finally, their Original Basque Cheesecake offers a light and rich cheesecake with a deep caramel exterior.
If you’re ready to dig into these delicious Japanese dishes before Pia’s Kitchen takes us to its next destination, ordering is hassle-free and just a few taps away! Their dishes are available 24/7 via GrabFood with prices ranging from P150 to P300.
For more information, visit the social media pages of Pia’s Kitchen on Facebook and Instagram. You can also visit the CloudEats website.
