Friday 18th May 2012

Pasalubong

Fresh Start Organics: Your Partner to a Healthier Lifestyle

Fresh Start Organics in Silay City is more than just a business. It’s a social enterprise helping hundreds of farmers in Negros Occidental with impacts on consumers’ health, fair trade and environmental conservation. The organic movement in Negros Occidental started in the 1980s with players from the NGO sector. It gained a stronger support from [...]

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Will the Original Manapla Puto Please Stand Up?

Not all Manapla Puto (rice cake) are created equal not even when they’re made in Manapla, Negros Occidental. Everybody who’s making puto on a banana leaf these days call themselves Manapla puto. Let’s weed out the copycats from the real McCoy and what do we have? Capulso Manapla Puto. Capulso Manapla Puto claims to be [...]

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Taste the Sweet Success of Merci Pasalubong Treats

A visit to Bacolod City would not be complete without bringing home sweet delicacies such as piaya, biscocho, butterscotch, and tarts among others. Negros Occidental as the sugar capital of the Philippines has helped in the flourishing of the bakery industry in the province. There seem to be a pasalubong center opening in every corner [...]

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Margie’s Cakes & Pastries: Making Dreams a Reality

For this young entrepreneur, God is her silent partner thus for every problem that came her way, God always provides a solution. Margarita “Margot” Villaruel has taken over the helm of their family business Margie’s Cakes & Pastries from her mother who named the business after her. However, Margot also does her homework and regularly [...]

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El Ideal Bakery: Serving Good Food Since the 1920s

Silay City in Negros Occidental is famous for mansions and good food. El Ideal Bakery is both. Housed in a National Heritage Site, El Ideal is also famous for its heritage recipes which it has served since the 1920s. El Ideal is more than just a bakery, it’s an institution, a cultural heritage, a story [...]

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Napoleones: Only in Bacolod City

Many people would associate Bacolod City with piaya and chicken inasal. However, this sugar capital has more to offer to satisfy ones sweet tooth. Pastry shops in Bacolod City has some of the most sought after recipes that can only be found in this part of the country. One such recipe is the napoleones which [...]

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Virgie’s Homemade Products

Humble Beginnings … “What I am now and how people, especially my customers viewed Virgie’s Homemade Products is a product of the interdependency of all elements in life, but most of all, God’s Divine Providence subsumed them all”, Mrs. Virginia O. Chua, the owner quips. It all started from a mere hobby 34 years ago. [...]

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