MANILA, Philippines - Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU)-Manila campus organized a team of chefs from its Culinary Institute, headed by Chefs David Pelaez, director, and Danilo Basilio, assistant director and head of instruction, together with selected faculty mentors from the university’s College of International Tourism and Hospitality Management (CITHM), to attend one of the biggest hospitality trade expositions in the Asia-Pacific region.
Food Hotel Asia is a biennial trade show showcasing food and hospitality products around the world. This year, it was held at the Singapore Expo with 2,800 exhibitors from 71 countries, highlighting an extensive display of new products, machineries and trends in hospitality services.
The LPU team joined the expo’s special events, including knowledge-sharing conferences, and benchmarked with the winners of the competitions on Freestyle Cake Decoration, Desserts, Petit Fours or Pralines, Plated Appetizers, Asian Meal, Brunch, Tapas, Seize a Salad, Neptune’s Catch, Pastry Showpiece, The Dream Team, and Barista and Bartending, to cascade these skills to their students.
LPU-Manila’s CITHM is now the biggest HRM and tourism school in the country, with a yearly student population of more than 9,000 students.
For more information on the various CITHM programs, call Marie Yulo at (02) 527-2744 or log on to www.lpu.edu.ph.