Ah Fong Asian Cuisine has moved and opened to its new location at SM City Cagayan de Oro!
Ah Fong Asian Cuisine is now at SM City Cagayan de Oro
Last Friday, April 15 we were invited by owner and current COHARA President Nelia Lee to its blessing and soft opening at its new site located just a door away from the SM City CDO Rotunda. Great new location if you ask me, and immediately the increased customer traffic and SM’s vast parking spaces redounds to the benefit of both the resto and its faithful clientele.
Ribbon cutting with DOT-X RD Butch Chan, Nelia Lee and Eileen San Juan
Originally situated at one of the new lifestyle districts downtown, Ms. Lee chose to move it Uptown to SM mainly because the she wasn’t getting enough of the clientele she knows would appreciate its Asian Fusion menu best.
Nelia knows her culinary chops, being the former manager of Dynasty Hotel and Restaurant, which had the distinction of being one of only four Cagayan de Oro restaurants selected among the ten best in the Philippines. Dynasty was cited as One of the 10 Best Restaurants in the country for Pancit Canton in Unilever’s “Sooo Pinoy National Search for the Ultimate Pinoy Dish” some four years ago.
Blessing of Ah Fong Asian Cuisine at its new location at SM City Cagayan de Oro
She’s also one of the founders of COHARA, the Cagayan de Oro Hotels and Restaurant Association, and its landmark Kumbira, the largest culinary event outside Metro Manila which will be having its 20th edition during Cagayan de Oro’s fiesta month this August.
Nelia Lee with Eileen San Juan, Butch Chan and son, Dodong Chaves, Saz Eullaran and Ivy Guantero
In response to her invitation, the core group of her fellow members in the Cagayan de Oro City Tourism Council led by no less than former DOT-X Director and now CTC Chair Dottie Pabayo came in force, as did her loyal colleagues from COHARA. Also spotted in the crowd of VIPs were DOT-X Reg. Dir. Butch Chan and his office mates, as well as Nelia’s relatives and friends from the local Filipino-Chinese community.
Guests from the Cagayan de Oro City Tourism Council with SM’s Ivy Guantero & DOT-X RD Butch Chan and CTC Chair Dottie Pabayo
Best of luck to our fellow CTC and COHARA colleague Nelia and her hard working and professional staff in your new location! We know Cagayan de Oro will be the better for it! God bless your new enterprise! (Photos by Mike Baños and Ivy Guantero)
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