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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
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! 🙂
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
Q corn coffee made by KALIPI members from roasted corn grits
Yellow ginger tea by KALIPI and Rural Improvement Club members
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
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
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
Small time enterprises and simple families, known for their commitment to quality and time tested recipes, are behind the best selling shrimp paste
Pancit habhab
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
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!
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 )
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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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
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 Peanuts – comes in 4 flavours
Love Gaita’s notepad. Did you know that Gaita loves cats?
Plus she has two more cats so a total of three 🙂 I follow them in instagram 🙂
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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
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!
Jomike Tejido who is part of INK and does artwork for children’s books
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
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
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
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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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
Aside from all Allen and family did for us, we each had two boxes of goodies from Iloilo!!! Thank you!!!!
There are so many namit things from Iloilo. We did not have time to go to any pasalubong centre anymore so I chose a few which I saw in the airport
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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!
They have outdoor huts by the beach
And indoor dining with aircondition 🙂
Outside the restaurant is this mango tree
Each mango is wrapped in newspaper to avoid the insects from eating the skin of the mangoes
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
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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We drove around 45 minutes from the city to get to Miagao to see Santo Tomas de Villanueva which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Beautiful!
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Our first dinner in Iloilo was at Breakthrough! My friend Bambi has been wanting to take me here so I am happy to try the place. This is a must place to go to when in Iloilo. Fresh everything!
I love this sink for washing your hands 🙂
Fountain leading to the fresh seafood – diwal and crabs
It’s all open air except for a room I saw that was like a function room. I loved our table which was the view of the beach
A bit spicy for me but I ate and ate! NAMIT!!!!!
I remembered my dad and mom and Gaita Fores! DIWAL! I don’t really eat this but I tried one and it was very fresh!
Lato! It went so fast they forgot I had to take a photo 🙂
Guinataan – I forgot what was the laman
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