A plate of mouth watering shrimps and more bounty from the sea welcomed us at Cabugao Seafoods House in Pavia, last weekend. The hearty lunch came after we witnessed the 2nd Globe Football Para sa Bayan ceremonies held in Santa Barbara, Iloilo.
Globe Football Para Sa Bayan is a grassroots program for the youth from underprivileged communities and serves as an inclusive platform for socially advantaged and less advantaged teams to interact and work together. It is a year-round football campaign of the giant telecommunications company to bring the program around the country to impact nation-building in a big way. Football is just the first step in Globe sports advocacy as the company continues to develop various sports programs for its CSR communities.
With more than 1000 participants from various football clubs across the island of Panay, the two-day event was led by Globe Sports Ambassador and Ilonggo National Football Team player "Azkal" Chieffy Caligdong. It is the second time for Globe to conduct the sports activity in Iloilo (last year it was held in Barotac Nuevo) and it followed the Metro Manila kick off last month. Earlier, Caligdong also conducted a football clinic for 40 students of Hacienda Conchita Elementary School in San Dionisio, Iloilo as part of Globe's Classroom on the Go project.
Now on the gastronomic side, Cabugao Seafoods House is among the most popular restaurants dotting the highway leading to the Iloilo International Airport. It was among the first to set-up a food business and now the most successful - with an expansion and two more branches in Iloilo (another one is just around 3 kilometers and the other in Oton, Iloilo).
So we had this yummy kinilaw na isda and their specialty, adobado (adobo with coconut milk) nga alimusan
The shrimps make a comeback - cooked in Sprite and tanged with calamansi.
Here's their sizzling seasfood mix - squid, green shells,, shrimps and veggies in a yummy curry-like concoction.
But if you're not a fan of seasfood or has some allergy considerations, don't fret for they also have meat dishes like crispy pata an native litsong manok, to name a few.