The current pandemic crisis has brought most of the local and popular restaurants here in Iloilo city to reduce their customer capacity and resort to online ordering and delivery in order to sustain their business.  In the past months, my newsfeed has been filled with friends and co-acquaintances posting food and menu items for online orders as well as non-food stuff. Some even resorted to the old school barter system, hence, the rise of the Iloilo Barter Community.

I have joined the Ilonggo vloggers club and noticed one of their recent drives to help the local business especially the food sector in regaining or at the least make their business stay afloat. They initiated some volunteer members to do free promotion of the restaurant or online shop in their Youtube vlog channels and Facebook pages. I then decided to do my own version. Whenever I do an online food order, I will do a short video of the restaurant info, the online order app or platform, and the food dish ordered.  I then do a short rating based on my personal preference and also on my food trip history.

I named this vlog series “Eat-from-Home Iloilo” and there are currently two videos under this playlist on my Youtube Channel. Check them below.

The first episode was when I tried their Ramen at Kizuna Curry at the Food hall of Festive Mall.

The second one is the good ol’ Ocean City Bistro, an icon in the local Ilonggo restaurants in the city.

*Banner image from Rappler.