Celebrate the Year of the Snake at SM Malls in the East!

SM Supermalls in the East invites everyone to usher in the Lunar New Year of the Wooden Snake with a vibrant celebration filled with good fortune, delicious treats, and exciting activities, experience the magic of Chinese New Year at SM City East Ortigas, SM City Taytay and SM Center Angono.

CNY Centerpiece: Immerse yourself in the festive spirit at the grand CNY centerpiece, adorned with vibrant colors and traditional symbols of prosperity and good fortune. Capture memorable photos with your loved ones amidst this stunning display. 

Pick the Lucky Ang Pao: Test your luck and grab a chance to win exciting prizes by picking the lucky ang pao. Filled with surprises and rewards, this interactive activity adds an extra layer of excitement to your CNY celebration.

Blind boxes: Unveil the mystery and anticipation with a collection of specially curated blind boxes featuring limited-edition CNY collectibles. Each box holds a surprise, adding an element of thrill to your shopping experience.  Visit Miniso SM City East Ortigas, SM City Taytay and SM Center Angono  

Wooden Snake Theme: Catch Chinese New Year’s Wooden Snake themed collectibles to celebrate and symbolize your prosperity and good fortune.   Check out Starbucks SM City Taytay, SM City East Ortigas and SM Center Angono and grab your Zodiac and Lunar New Year 2025 tumblers 

Dining: Indulge in a culinary journey with a diverse range of dining options, offering authentic Chinese delicacies and festive treats. From savory dim sum of SM City East Ortigas’ Chowking to a hearty meal sets from Savory at SM Center Angono and favorite Chinese food at SM City Taytay’s The Chinese Kitchen, satisfy your cravings and celebrate the New Year with delectable flavors. 

Lucky Color outfits: Dress to impress in the lucky colors of the year – red, gold, and green – to attract good fortune and positive energy. Explore the latest fashion trends at SM Supermalls and find the perfect outfit to ring in the New Year with style. 

Experience the Joy and Prosperity of Chinese New Year at SM Supermalls in the East.

Vivo celebrated Chinese New Year with the CNY Photo Contest

Rhea Blue and Katt Valdez

To celebrate the Chinese New Year this 2018, Vivo launched a special photo contest but first involving a few well-known lifestyle bloggers for a first taste. Held last February 3 and 4 at Binondo in Manila, Vivo invited 18 lifestyle bloggers for eventful photowalk around the oldest China town in the world. Bloggers were asked to capture photos that embody the Chinese culture may it be the food, the ambiance, the traditional lucky ornaments, or Binondo’s old charm as a whole.  Bloggers enjoyed taking photos with their Vivo smartphone because of its known first-rate features: the 24MP front camera for perfect CNY celebration selfies complemented by the camera’s HDR mode for stunning images with dramatic shadowing and highlights and the portrait bokeh for added aesthetics. The professional mode, which mimics the manual mode of DSLR cameras, allows users to adjust the exposure, white balance, ISO, and focus mode creating creative photos. Vivo’s signature Face Beauty spec ensures that anyone’s selfie game is flawless with its natural face enhancements. The Ultra HD mode takes hi-resolution photos at 9216x6192 (64MP), allowing for shots with very clear details. Lastly, bloggers were able to come together for a good group shot with the Groufie technology which boasts of a panorama-panning effect for big group shots without leaving anyone out.

The two-day Binondo photowalk with the bloggers was a special promotional event to get the bloggers’ followers to join Vivo’s Chinese New Year (CNY) Photo Contest where a participant needs to take the best Chinese New Year-inspired photos and upload them in their Instagram account for a chance to win a brand-new Vivo V7+.

Lucky Winner's Entry

The bloggers’ photowalk for Vivo’s CNY Photo Contest proved to be a success as entries numbering to more than 200 have been uploaded on Instagram by February 14. Out of all the entries, the top four best creative photos were chosen by the participating lifestyle bloggers with one winner announced during the Chinese New Year celebrations last February 16 at the Lucky Chinatown Mall. At the event, Vivo showcased the Chinese New Year-inspired photos in a special photowall. Vivo’s official mascot Little V entertained the crowd with a dance rendition of the hit song 24k. Later, Vivo awarded the Chinese New Year Photo Contest winner Angela Palacio for her photo of her Vivo V5 capturing an illuminated stretch of red Chinese lanterns.

CNY Winner Angela Palacio

The lifestyle bloggers who joined the Vivo CNY Photowalk were: (February 3) Ana Gonzales, Rhea Gonzales, Katt Valdez, Myke Soon, Ryan San Juan, Cristelle Torres, John Bueno, Paul Chuapoco, and Yuki Tansengco; (February 4) Ed Uy, Jeman Villanueva, Justin Montas, Jerhwin Hernandez, Nikole Maturan, Anthony Neilson, Collen Vidal, Louie Denver, and Slyve Sy. Vivo influencers also helped promote the CNY Photo Contest through their Instagram accounts: KZ Tandingan, TJ Monterde, Darren Espanto, Joyce Pring, Tony Labrusca, and Sassa Dagdag.

For inquiries about Vivo, visit the Vivo website at www.vivo.com/ph or check out their Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/VivoPhil), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vivophil/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/vivo_phil) accounts.

Marriott Manila Spreads Bounteous Luck this Year of the Fire Rooster

Treasure and Tradition

In celebration of the biggest festival in the Chinese Lunar calendar, Marriott Manila ushers in the Year of the Fire Rooster with a chest box filled with three traditional delicacies: Tikoy (Nian Gao), Radish Cake (Lo Bak Go), and Taro Cake (Wu Tao Gao). 

Executive Chinese Law Wui Wing made sure these delicacies are prepared in the most flavorful and authentic way. The round-shaped 750-gram Tikoy, with a classic sweet taste symbolic to the Chinese culture as it means "higher year", attracts wealth and luck throughout the year. Likewise, the 500-gram radish and taro cake slices are made using prime ingredients from Hong Kong. These cakes signify good fortune and prosperity. 

The elegant red oriental box-whether shared to others as it symbolizes an abundance of luck and prosperity, or placed at the center of your New Year celebration-is available for only Php 1,388 at Marriott Café Bakery, Crema, and the newly-opened Man Ho Chinese restaurant.  

Man Ho's Feast of Good Fortune and Infinite Happiness 

Man Ho is also inviting you to make your New Year celebrations more memorable with a lavish 11-course feast. Choose from two set menus: 

The Good Fortune for Php 36,888++ includes marinated radish and black fungus as starters, assorted barbecued meat combination with a covetous suckling pig, braised dried oyster with garlic and vegetables, braised fish lip soup with sea cucumber and black mushroom, sautéed clam meat and sliced chicken with celery chili sauce, steamed live tiger Garoupa fish, deep fried crispy chicken, stir-fried kai lan with ginger sauce, fried rice cooked in Fujian style, and desserts like sweetened red bean cream with dumplings, custard bun with egg yolk, and coconut pudding with red bean. 

The Infinite Happiness Set for Php 42, 888++ includes appetizers like smoked fish and Japanese cucumber, roasted goose in Hong Kong style (a rare and first in Manila), roasted suckling pig, braised conpoy with dried oyster and vegetables, braised fish maw soup and shredded duck, sautéed scallops with asparagus in X.O. sauce, steamed live pink Garoupa fish, poached seasonal vegetables with salty egg and preserved egg, fried rice with diced chicken and salty fish, sweetened red bean cream with dumplings, steamed custard bun with egg yolk, and coconut pudding with red bean. 

Make your reservations to catch these set menus from January 28 to February 11, 2017. 

The Year of the Fire Rooster is looking very auspicious at Marriott Manila and the best way to start it is through a ceremonial dragon and lion dance on January 29 at 5pm. Join the celebration to attract good spirits and push negative energies away! 

For inquiries, call (02) 9889999 or visit manilamarriott.com. To keep up on the hotel's latest offerings, follow @marriottmanila at Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat; and @manilamarriott on Instagram.