Hotta Rice | Tofu Sisig

For over 40 years, 7-Eleven has built its identity in the Philippines as the convenience store to go to when you look for something to have for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between. Well, to celebrate the year, they have rolled out some of the best and original meals across the range that expand their menu. This includes their hot-selling Hotta Rice meals with an exclusive featuring their Tofu Sisig viand with rice that is certainly going to fly off their shelves with the healthy style to breeze through the summer season in the country, and that’s just one meal to look forward to when you come across with this meal.

Mang Cesar | Chicken Sisig

A small business when it is all about food-related is a challenging enterprise, and mostly if it has not established a name or identity needs to go through A LOT of hoops to be able to make it. Sometimes it may takes years or it would be a short lived ideas that would never work, In the case of Mang Cesar, there’s an opportunity to put that name, brand, and content all together. Mang Cesar that established its brand and services in 2020 opened a branch nearby sometime in August 2022, and slowly learning from being a restaurant to this new location. Beginnings have some lessons to learned, and it also needs to establish itself to the neighbor around that they would be sticking around for a long time.

Busog Meal | Breakfast Combo

Breakfast meals is a rare thing as something being sold as an instant meal, but 7 Eleven continue to pull punches and experiment trying new things that can be as they say “convenient” to have. With their Busog Meal range it was just the basic Filipino lunch meal that they continue to produce and adding a breakfast meal makes sense. They already have the breakfast omelette, but never a combo that features three viands with a rice. They’ve already have this for a while, but rarely everyone would even grab it for lunch as most in their minds this is ‘only for breakfast’ when you can also have it as a lunch meal as an alternative to not just be hindered in thinking this is only good to have in the morning.

Busog Meal | Chicken Sisig

Chicken Sisig is a variation of the Sisig Dish that has been a common staple in Filipino households and at local pubs as a complimentary while having a beer. But most of the time it is one you’ll find at eateries and food stalls. It is an inexpensive dish mostly a go to with rice for lunch. 7 Eleven has the budget friendly Busog Meal as their most affordable range of dishes mostly serving all the variations of Sisig and Giniling (Filipino-style Pciadillo) that are packaged in deep green box that shows this as the most basic food item in their long line of Filipino dishes. The Chicken Sisig is one of the ‘sort of new’ to the range as part of the Busog Meal range.

Busog Meal | Bangus Sisig

“Sisig” is the most common dish you’ll find in every Filipinos’ lunch plate. It is everywhere served anywhere. The cheapest meal you can have that has been interpreted several times you just never knew you might have it before. There are certain flavour out there, but the most common is the pork, beef, and bangus sisig. 7 Eleven have a majority of their cheapest rice meal under the “Busog Meal” dedicated to it. Of course, if you no longer have an option or the certain meal item is temporarily not available on their freezer shelf this is where you might end up with. It is not the usual place you’d probably go and rediscover it, but then again you might find the curiosity to try one that you never had before.

Hotta Ulam | Lechon Sisig

“Ulam” is a Filipino word loosely translated in English as Viands or side dish. It’s the best pair up when having rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s mostly a home cooking that makes it even better. But as an instant frozen dish has been around with different brands making their version of what is a Filipino ‘home cooking’ as an instant without the need to prepare and cook it from the ground up. There have been brands that have produced their version of an instant viand or “Ulam” to take home and just cook rice to pair with it. Way back a full decade ago there was the brand called Ulalammm that was rebranded to Ulalamammm Plus, and then local pastry and restaurant Goldilocks have their take that for some that’s unknown.

Busog Meal | Jumbo Sisig

“Busog” is a Filipino word that means “Full” or “Stuffed” from all that eating. It can be a word to describe a person that be phrased as, “He looks Busog” or another word for Chunky. But in more than ways it is named after 7 Eleven’s cheapest range of meals that you can easily buy, and why it was named after this word. Because it will really made you feel stuffed from having a cheap thrill with their meals. There’s a good and not-so positive way to have a Busog Meal, but when times are tough and you have very limited budget just to survive the day, you have to find creative ways to even have a meal that will get you through it.

Chef Creations | Sisig by Manam Express

Sisig is a Filipino dish most commonly seen paired up with beer in local pubs or bars. It is also a favourite to have during lunch and it is basically made from parts of a pig's face and belly, and chicken liver which is usually seasoned with calamansi, onions, and chili peppers. It is one of the delicacy that everyone starts with a conversation. Because they mix everything in it, and wait while you have a convo. But the one being sold at 7 Eleven doesn’t need no mixing of the egg on tops of the Sisig, and it is one of the Chef Creations in collaboration with Manam Express, a local fast food resto that brings you to the spotlight of how it is different to have an instant version.

Ulalammm... Sisig na Astig!

10.30.2012 – What is Ulalammm? Ulam is dish in English and it could be in another term as entrée, viand, and victuals. It’s the one that Filipinos eat with their rice and it could be meat, fish or anything that would go with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ulalammm has been getting TV exposure via the PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) games as audience who gets volunteered to market the product in-between. Originally the product was launched sometime in 2010 but interest is not as big as established products out there.