Allphones completes foodies’ tech essentials

MANILA, Philippines - Nowadays, telecoms technology is helping foodies and food trippers discover a more intense sense of place through local cuisine. Eating local food is not only a delicious experience but also a way of getting to know the people and the culture in the area.

Using mobile devices and the Internet, people add another dimension to their enjoyment of local food: they take pictures of these dishes — along with themselves savoring them.

Thanks to martphones and mobile Internet, people have become instant food trippers just by clicking that camera phone and sharing pictures on social media like Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

How do you make food trips even more enjoyable? First of all, it’s better to do research. For example, when you have picked a place to go to, do a Google search on the local cuisine. From then on, the rest is up to your taste. However, this leads us to the second — the “Food Trippers’ Essentials.”

Have a sense of adventure. If you are in a new place and have an appetite for discovery, why stick to the familiar? This applies as much to destinations as well as to food. There are places that have distinctive dishes not usually found in other places. Some dishes are more exotic than the others. For example, Pampanga is famous for making meals from kamaru (crickets), frogs, and even field rats that incidentally subsist solely on a diet of rice.

Discover the original. More and more food from the regions and provinces are being offered in Metro Manila — so you can reason out, what’s the use of going out-of-town to enjoy them?

Sure, there are chicken inasal restaurants in Metro Manila, but it’s still quite a different experience to try the version in Bacolod and Iloilo. As for Cebu-style lechon, where else but in Cebu is the best.

And in Vigan, their distinct empanada and longganisa are worth the trip. 

Finally, here’s the Food Trippers’ Essential that brings all of the above together: having a good smartphone and a mobile Internet connection.

According to Maureen Gallant, marketing head of Allphones, the Philippines’ fastest-growing mobile phone retail chain with more than 50 stores nationwide, their outlets make food tripping even easier — by making sure foodies get the best smartphones for taking photos, videos, and surfing the Internet.

Even better, these smartphones are available either at huge discounts or even for free when customers avail themselves of these through a postpaid plan.

You can enjoy food tripping with the entire family even more when you avail yourself of exclusive postpaid plans from Allphones, which include the following smartphone and tablet bundles: the Cloudfone 403D plus the Cloudfone 706W Tab at Plan 499; the Lenovo A680 plus A1000 Tab at Plan 999; and the LG L3 II plus LG G Pad at Plan 1799.

You also have the option of making outright purchases of the following smartphones at huge discounts: the LG G2, Nokia 1320, and Alcatel Magic.

“Allphones stores make sure that mobile phone shopping is fun, easy, and convenient.  Customers get to try live demo units hands-on. They enjoy affordable, value-for-money deals on postpaid plans. These postpaid plan deals are exclusive to Allphones and include options like unlimited voice calls, unlimited texting, and unlimited mobile Internet. These value-for-money features will give foodies what they need to post and share about the delicious dishes from their travels,” says Gallant.

Find out how you can get fantastic mobile phone deals and the latest smartphones at affordable prices or even for free by going to www.allphones.com.ph.