Category Archives: Proud to be Pinoy!

Q Proudly Quezon Made

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 Another young and beautiful lady, Anna Villaraza Suarez.  Anna is the wife of one of the best friends of my youngest brother, Quito.  She is First lady to Governor Jayjay Suarez and helps him promote the people and the products of Quezon Province.  When JayJay became Governor in 2010, She would attend the annual week long Agri -exposition and the Nyugyugan Festival in Quezon where members of KALIPI ( Kalipunan ng Liping Pilipina, of which she is the honorary chairperson ), farmers and fisherfolk would sell out all their good to buyers from manila and neighbouring towns.  She told me that they would sell a lot during the festival though she wants them to have continuous income throughout the year.   Anna visited the 39 municipalities and two cities of Quezon where she had the chance to taste and try the different food products made by the locals.  She says ” A lot of these products are excellent.  The packaging just needed improvement and the producers given market access.”  And this is how Q Proudly Quezon Made Products was born!   Ultimately the goal of Q is to establish a federation of Q product manufacturers in the province to sustain the production, promotion and marketing of the products 

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One need not go far to taste the flavours of Quezon province.  Anna has brought them closer to us and has made them available for more people to try.  She branded the products under the Q label.  Anna did the minimalistic and clean looking logo.  ” We want the look to become more appealing to the Manila crowd, to upgrade the look of typical locally produced products.  It has to be attractive because we are carrying the name of the province and we want people to have a positive impression of Quezon Province as a whole.”  That statement alone tells me positive things about how the couple is running the province….and I like it! 🙂  

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Arrow root ( uraro ) cookies made by the wives and children of a farmer’s cooperative and developed with the Department of Science & Technology ( DOST ) , The Department of Trade ad Industry, and provincial and municipal local and government units

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Q corn coffee made by KALIPI members from roasted corn grits
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Yellow ginger tea by KALIPI and Rural Improvement Club members
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  The Milkfish in oil is the result of an oversupply of the fish during harvest time.  And to protect the farmers from lowering their prices, the lady members of the fishermen’s cooperative decided to make a product out of it

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  Shredded smoked fish flakes, produced by the fishermen-husbands of KALIPI members using tamban and galunggong and ideal for any pandit dish, monggo, pasta or rice

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 Pickled garlic made by the Federation of Farmers Association and best served with grilled foods as an appetiser and as part of a cheese platter
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 Small time enterprises and simple families, known for their commitment to quality and time tested recipes, are behind the best selling shrimp paste shrimp-paste.JPG

 Pancit habhab

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 Anna told me this is how they eat the pancit – they roll it in leaves and then slide it down their mouths from the leaf 
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 Longganiza which I love!!  
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 Beef tapa – a different kind of tapa – it is dried and you just have to fry it quickly in oil until brown and crispy – Yum!
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 And finally the Crispy pata! YUM!!  Keep frozen and just bring it out of the freezer before frying and fry in hot oil so it will be crispy ( DO NOT DEFROST  before cooking )

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 Available at ECHOStore Serendra ( Bonifacio Global City ) and ECHOStore Centris ( Quezon City ).  Orders can also be placed at 0928-524-2753  or 0917-817-2552 or ( 632) 779-7249 or through email at proudlyquezonmade@gmail.com.

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Organic Products from Bukidnon at Grace Park

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I always love the presentation of all Gaita’s products- whether it be for food, for table setting, for flowers or simply just packaging her food items

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Gaita now sells products from Kaibigan Farm in Bukidnon! All the products are planted and harvested by the men and cooked by the wives  

Organic Tablea
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Healthier Bacon Chicharon
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Organic Peanuts – comes in 4 flavours 
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All available in Grace Park
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Love Gaita’s notepad.  Did you know that Gaita loves cats? 
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A cat she found outside Lusso
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Plus she has two more cats so a total of three 🙂  I follow them in instagram 🙂
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Art in the Park 2014

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Looking forward to another art event by the Museum Foundation of the Philippines!  It was nice to hear about the upcoming Art in the Park from no other than Trickie Colayco Lopa

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And Nanette Reyes.  This year,  it will only be a one day event but it will cover the whole park including the area of the Salcedo Market and it will have longer hours. And there will be a total of 58 exhibitors versus 43 of last year so there will definitely be lots of new things to see this year!

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Jomike Tejido who is part of INK and does artwork for children’s books

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Will have an installation called Elly Riders.  Watch out for them – you can ride them and they are also cabinets and drawers 🙂

Beautiful Maxine Syjuco of Art Lab is an artist from a family of artists 🙂  She will also have an installation of mixed media  

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Osie Ocampo, owner of Pablo Gallery, put up a new gallery called Suez and Zapote.  It’s a collaboration with Team Manila which opened last year and they have prints by young artists

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Flo by Fran Alvarez

Untitled by Pergy Acuna

Beatrix Syjuco

 Bagong Daan by C del Mundo

Old Jar by Fuentes

Mother and Son by Magpantay

Ballerina by R. Manansala

Irma Lacorte

Loving Embrace by Bong Gojar

Thou Shall Not Listen by Daisy Carlos 

Kalinga by Lydia Velasco

Stage Curtain by Mideo Cruz

Time is What Life Is by Vicente Padilla

Galura 

Male Study by Mia Herbosa

Mare and Foal by Marissa Lopa

Nude by Marissa Lopa

Charmaigne Mendoza

Charlie Co

Cris Villanueva

Jimenez

Ral Arrogante

 

Amanda Lapus

Angelo Padillo

 Piaget Martelino

Joseph Fraylon

Ramon dela Cruz

Iyan de Jesus

Cordoba

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Manila Wear Exhibits Finest Tropical Resort Collections

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It’s such an honour to be in the same room as THE Budji Layug!  At first I could not believe it and later on realised that it was him! 🙂  He told us that he will be dabbling into fashion for the upcoming Manila Wear and he will work with 12 young designers to to interpret Urban Resort for Manila Wear.  Looking forward to this on March 14, see you all there

Anna Alzona, Project Officer for Garments and Textile Industry Development Organization; Art Dimaano, Project Director; Rosvi Gaetos, Executive Director of Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions; Budji Layug, Creative Director of Manila Fame and Manila Wear; Maria Lourdes Mediran, Deputy Executive Director of CITEM

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Tatoys

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Iloilo is the seafood capital of the Philippines.  They entertain in their dining room instead of their living room.  They can spend the entire day eating 🙂  I can blend in easily here I think 🙂 Our lunch was in Tatoy’s this time!

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They have outdoor huts by the beach
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And indoor dining with aircondition 🙂
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That was our table
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Our kind hosts

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Love fresh buko juice
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Everything namit!



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Outside the restaurant is this mango tree
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Each mango is wrapped in newspaper to avoid the insects from eating the skin of the mangoes
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After lunch we walked outside to see the beach.  On the way I saw this guy and I asked him what he was selling – PULOT!  Bambi had told me to try pulot so I bought some
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Just use a stick to eat it – Yum!  Very sweet!  The girls were saying it reminds them of Kulangot from Baguio but in a liquid form.  To me it is like my favourite candy in Bacolod called butong butong
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