Fake 1000 Peso bills paid at Eastwood Night Market

Three weeks ago, the Marketplace, a night food bazaar organized by IL Mercanti Metrowalk Management reopened at a different location. The night food bazaar was originally located at Citywalk 2, Eastwood City, Libis last March 2012 but was transferred to a more visible location at the open parking lot near Megaworld and IBM buildings.

The reopening of Marketplace was a huge success. Operation hours were also adjusted from 11pm-9am to 8pm-4am. This means that the food bazaar was available for people who work regular hours, from morning until early evening. Since the food bazaar was made available to a new batch of customers, plus previous call center customers, who usually buy food between 10pm to 2am, the place was jam packed as early as 9pm.

Food concessionaires welcomed more customers and were really happy because of the additional income from new clients. What ruined a perfect reopening of the event was several incidents of fake 1000 peso bills paid by syndicates disguised as ordinary employees. From what I gathered that evening, a total of six 1000 peso bills were discovered, but the they were already paid to unsuspecting bazaar staff.

Since the incident, Luigi's employees were given a short orientation on how to detect fake bills even without using a money detector. Here are a few tips:

1. Watermark - it is the silhouette of the portrait on the face of the note. When viewed against the light, it will show the exact and detailed portrait as seen on the face of the bill.

2. Bill texture - the bill is not 100% paper. If the bill is relatively new, it will be difficult to tear it compared to ordinary paper used by counterfeit groups. It was mentioned that the bill has a mixture of cloth or fabric which makes it durable and resistant to tear even after washing with soap and water.

3. Colors - Banko Central ng Pilipinas use vivid colors. Fake bills usually use dull colors.

For more information on detecting real against fake peso bills, visit this site: http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/detect-fake-currency/

Luigi's Reopens at Eastwood City, Libis QC

For almost a month, The Marketplace - a night food bazaar at Eastwood City, Libis closed and reorganized their event. Two weeks ago, the bazaar reopened at a new location, it is now at the open parking lot at the left side before you reach McDonald's when you enter Eastwood via the main entrance.

Luigi's eagerly anticipated the event's reopening since we had regular customers when the bazaar was earlier located at Citywalk 2. The event's reopening was a success 2 weeks ago and last week, Luigi's got more customers compared to the previous week.

We would like to thank all our loyal and new customers for patronizing our pasta and mixed rice dishes. We assure you that we will continue to sell good quality meals at affordable prices. We also would like to thank the organizers of The Marketplace, the second food bazaar event organized by IL Mercanti Metrowalk Pasig City.

Our operation hours are from Wednesdays to Fridays, 7pm until 4am. See you there!

Luigi's Mixed Rice and Pasta at Eastwood City Libis

Luigi's Mixed Rice and Pasta is now at Citywalk 2, Eastwood City, Libis, Quezon City. We started last March and our operation days and hours are from Mondays to Fridays, 1130 PM to 9 AM. Our stall is near the entrance of Citywalk 2, just across the driveway entrance of Eastwood Richmonde Hotel.



We serve the same menu of mixed rice and pasta, just like our menu at Banchetto Robinsons Forum, Banchetto Meralco Avenue (formerly Megatent) and IL Mercanti Metrowalk. Our bestsellers for mixed rice are Thai Rice, Mixed Seafood with Aligue and Braised Beef. For our pasta dishes, our bestsellers are Linguine Carbonara, Lasagna in Beef and Mushroom Sauce and Rigatoni Bolognese.


Visit us at Eastwood City and order our bestsellers. You may also order in advance for bulk, just call or text us at 0932-2646722, email us at luigibusiness@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page here.

Fried Rice and its Health Benefits

Luigi's Mixed Rice concept is stir fry fried rice. Rice is a staple food for Filipinos and we modified a lot of recipes involving rice to make it more exciting, presentable and of course improve its taste.

As stated in Wikipedia, Fried Rice is a popular component of Asian cuisine, especially Chinese food. It is made from steamed rice stir-fried in a wok, often with other ingredients such as eggs, vegetables, and meat. It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquets (just before dessert). As a home-cooked dish, fried rice typically is made with left over ingredients from other dishes, leading to countless variations.

There are many popular varieties of fried rice, each with its own specific list of ingredients. In Asia, the more famous varieties include Yangzhou and Fujian fried rice. Elsewhere, Chinese restaurants catering to non-Chinese clientele have invented their own varieties of fried rice including egg fried rice, Malaysian (spicy) fried rice and the ubiquitous 'special fried rice'.

Eating rice also has several benefits. Rice is a great source of complex carbohydrates which give us the energy we need. According to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations), rice provides 20 percent of the world's dietary energy supply. Rice contains all the amino acids essential for building and maintaining muscle tissue, and make up antibodies, enzymes, and hormones. These amino acids also help maintain healthy skin, hair, eyesight, and nourish the heart, lungs, tendons and ligaments, brain, nervous system and glands.

White rice is one of the easiest and quickest foods to digest requiring only an hour to completely digest it. As such, rice is an ideal health food for those who are debilitated and weak and require easy assimilation and quick energy. Because of the low fiber content, white rice is very soothing to the digestive system and rice gruels along with buttermilk are recommended for digestive disorders such as diarrhea, dysentery, morning sickness, colitis, and jaundice. (http://www.vegrecipes4u.com)

Rice is a good source of carbohydrates to build up energy or recharge ourselves after a hard day's work. Although we are advised to moderate the consumption of rice most especially during dinner, to avoid unburned calories, it is still best to have a balanced and complete diet regularly.

Midnight El Grande

Luigi's Mixed Rice is now a participant of Midnight El Grande Night Market at Rockwell Business Center, Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City. We started last Thursday, February 16, 2012 and will be a participant for the coming months. Midnight El Grande is open every Thursdays to Saturdays, 6pm to 4am.

Midnight El Grande started last December 2011 but Luigi's was not able to join because of previous engagements booked for that month. Hopefully this year, the event will be successful so Luigi's Mixed Rice can be a permanent food concessionaire of the event.

Midnight El Grande clients usually comes from Medical City, Rockwell Business Center offices such as Aegis People Support and Trend Micro. Organizers of the event are trying tap more food merchants to entice more customers to patronize the night market.

Event organizers are also planning to set up a Sunday Morning Market titled Sunday Lifestyle. Schedule of the Sunday Lifestyle will be announced soon.

Channel V Red Revolution Concert

This coming February 9, Thursday, Channel V will have a rock concert entitled Red Revolution at Metrowalk Parking Area, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Tickets are Php 50.00 each and concert will start as early as 4 PM. Gates will be open by 3 PM to accommodate people who want to be early and position themselves near the stage.

Luigi's Mixed Rice, currently a food merchant at Il Mercanti Food Bazaar located at Metrowalk will also serve food as early as 3 PM. Concert viewers can grab their meals early, before the concert starts so they can stay at the concert venue the whole time. Viewers can order bestsellers such as Thai Rice, Mixed Seafood with Aligue and Adobo Rice. They can still order from Luigi's even after the concert. Luigi's will be open until 4 AM the following day.

The concert is organized to raise public awareness, most especially the youth about HIV and AIDS. In between performances of rock bands, an audio visual presentation will be shown by the Red Whistle Group to provide helpful information about the fight against HIV and AIDS.

Concert performers include Sandwich, Pupil, Callalily, Imago, Franco, Chicosci, Brownman Revival, Rivermaya, Stonefree, Slapshock, Razorback, 6Cyclemind and a lot more bands (http://kokakthefroglet.blogspot.com).

Let us support the concert and be a part of a movement to raise public awareness to prevent AIDS here in the Philippines.

Luigi's Mixed Rice at IL Mercanti Metrowalk

Luigi's Mixed Rice is a pioneer food merchant at Il Mercanti Metrowalk Food Bazaar. We started first week of September last year and has been with Il Mercanti since then. Luigi's is open here from Thursdays to Saturdays, 8pm to 4am. Our stall is located near the entrance side facing the main street from the main entrance of Metrowalk going to the back area parking lot.

Just like other Luigi's Mixed Rice branches, you can order your favorite meals such as Thai Rice, Mixed Seafood with Aligue, Braised Beef in Oyster Sauce, Pork Tapa in Teriyaki Sauce, Adobo Rice, Pork Tapa in Aligue, Liempo Barbecue and Mixed Seafood in Teriyaki Sauce.


Luigi's Metrowalk also accepts delivery orders to nearby offices within Metrowalk, Home Depot and along Emerald Avenue Ortigas Center.

Drop by during our operation hours and order your favorite meals. See you!

Transcom Christmas Party

Luigi's Pasta was invited last December by Transcom BPO located at Frontera Verde, Pasig City to their Christmas Party. The venue was the rooftop of Transcom Building and was attended by hundreds of their employees.

The party started as early as 6 pm and ended until 2 am. Food merchants were invited by the company and employees were given food stubs to use as payment for their food purchase. Transcom in turn will pay for all food stubs collected that night.


Too bad Luigi's Mixed Rice was not allowed to set up with our pasta dishes since the organizer told us that another merchant was selling mixed rice too. Upon checking that night, the merchant was not selling mixed rice at all. They were just selling fried rice with different meat recipes as toppings. Anyway, it was a successful event for Luigi's Pasta since most of our dishes were almost sold out.

A very big thanks to Transcom Management for inviting us. Hopefully we will also be invited to their future events as well.