Already preparing for the grand New Year’s celebration? Excited about Media Noche, where a spread of sumptuous dishes will be waiting on the table for you to come home from Mass, get together with family and relatives, finish watching the fireworks and gather at the table to share your first meal in 2020?

You can make that special meal — and all the meals that will follow — even more sumptuous with these delightful gastronomic treats…

Chef Dino Datu’s Ox Tongue with Bone Marrow tray.

Chef Dino Datu presents two special party trays for Christmas 2019: Ox Tongue with Bone Marrow and Turkey Feast. The Ox Tongue with Bone Marrow tray is all of 1.5 kilograms at P2,500 per tray. The bird in the Turkey Feast weighs between five to six kilograms and comes with Potato and Sage Sausage stuffing, French beans, cinnamon carrots, gravy and cranberry jelly at P6,000 for the whole package.

To order, call 0917-3116965. Allow three days lead time. Delivery is via Transportify.

Roast Chicken Sinampalukan by chef Roland Laudico.

CHEF ROLAND LAUDICO’S ROAST CHICKEN SINAMPALUKAN

If you like the classic and contemporary Filipino dishes on the daily buffet of chef Laudico Guevarra’s in San Juan City, now you can bring the buffet to your own homes with the restaurant’s newly launched Guevarra’s Handaan Kahit Saan party trays. Choices include the mainstays of the 80-item buffet spread, one of which is the Tamarind and Lemongrass-spiced Roast Chicken Sinampalukan developed by Chef Roland Laudico and best enjoyed with Kamote Salad.

Sinampalukang Manok in Roast Chicken form, the Tamarind and Lemongrass-spiced Roast Chicken Sinampalukan costs P588 for a whole chicken. It is priced at P688 when packaged with Kamote Salad.

Chef Laudico Guevarra’s is located at 387 P. Guevarra St. corner Argonne, San Juan City. For orders, call (02) 7051811, (02) 7051874 or 0917-3112222.

It all started with Brazo de Mercedes. Now the iconic meringue roll with egg custard filling has evolved into a number of variations, including the Brazo de Calamansi created by Chef Jac Laudico.

A round cake with torched meringue icing and calamansi curd topping, Brazo de Calamansi is one of the many delicious cakes available at Chef Laudico Guevarra’s buffet restaurant in San Juan City. Priced at P680, it is ideal for gift-giving as well as for personal consumption.

Other sweet selections include Strawberry Shortcake,Mocha Cake, Brigaderos, Butterscotch, Crinkles, Brigaderos Balls, Kalabasa Pastillas Balla, Maja Blanca and Cassava Cake Flan.

To order, call (02) 7051811, (02) 7051874 or 0917-3112222.

Hong Kong MX, an iconic brand from Hong Kong that’s best known for its mooncake selections, makes this Christmas season more decadent with its Hong Kong MX Pastries series.

Recently introduced in the Philippine market, Hong Kong MX uses only the best ingredients to create its mouth-watering food products and offers the following pastries for this holiday season: Hearty Butter Pastries, Mille-Feuilles, Butter Cookies and Eggrolls. The Hearty Butter Pastries are made with a double-baking technique that results in caramel notes. The Mille-Feuilles are the perfect union of 192 layers of hand-crafted puff pastry on a bed of almonds. The Eggrolls are of melt-in-the-mouth tenderness.

The good news is that aside from the original variants of these goodies, they also come in Hazelnut, Macadamia, Maple Syrup and Chocolate flavors. The best-selling Trio Box holds all three variants.

Boxes range from P800 to P1,500 each, while snack packs retail at P179.75.

Available until January 25, 2020, only, Hong Kong MX Pastries are available in Hong Kong MX pop-up stores located at SM Mall of Asia and Lucky Chinatown. They can also be ordered through Lazada, Grab and GoEat.

Ju.D Lao is known as the Fruitcake Queen because she makes the best fruitcake that has been formulated to please the Filipino palate. She makes four kinds of fruitcakes — Classic Fruitcake (studded with glazed cherries, orange peel, dates, raisins and walnuts; aged with fine brandy), Coffee Prune Cake (dark fruitcake made with prunes, walnuts and Kahlua coffee liquor), Ju.D Blue (rich, dark fruitcake made with Blue Mountain Coffee, fruit glacé and walnuts, aged with Kahlua coffee liquor), and Golden Fruitcake (light honey fruitcake with golden apricots, red cranberries, walnuts and candied ginger).

From her best-selling fruitcakes, she has also developed Chewy Chewkies, which are chewy fruitcake cookies which she made from fruit glace, raisins and walnuts and just a bit of brandy to make them moist and chewy and oh-so-delicious.

She also sells Ginger Cookies and French Nougat.

To order, call +632 6331188 or +632 6330260, visit www.judfruitcakes.com, or visit judsfruitcakes’ FB account.