FLAVOURS OF ILOILO

Looking for the perfect and most delicious pasalubong from Iloilo? Just look for anything with a Tinapayan label.  And now, Tinapayan pasalubong items are now available at Coffeebreak Pre-Departure area. While sipping your favorite Coffeebreak drink and while waiting for your flight, you can shop for delicious pasalubong.  Choose from a wide variety available on the Coffeebreak racks. Pick from delicious Tinapayan specialties like classic Biscocho, Crunchy Mango, Raspberry, Pinipig, Pili, Cinnamon twist, a variety of yummy meringue. Banana Chips, Rosquillos, and a lot more irresistible goodies.  Coffeebreak and Tinapayan has partnered to offer travelers, tourists, and food lovers a terrific line of great-tasting pasalubong for your friends and loved ones.  /press release On a personal note, I just love the "new" Tinapayan butterscotch. It's more chewy and moist as it now comes in foil packs that pack in the goodness of this Iloilo pasalubong...

This is Iloilo . Beyond the Dinagyang festival; past it’s history, culture and heritage; apart from the melodious accent of warm and friendly people, Iloilo is, and will always be, associated with food and none is more popular than La Paz batchoy. This is La Paz batchoy . Noodles with pork, liver, innards topped with chicharon and served in pork broth boiled with onions, seasoned with guinamos and made even tastier with soy sauce and ground pepper. Originated and named after one of Iloilo City’s districts just like Pancit Molo. This is Pancit Molo . A “noodle-less” pancit dish from Molo district with Chinese influence in it’s wonton like Molo balls made with ground pork, chicken, shrimps and vegetables seasoned and wrapped in Molo wrapper served in chicken broth with chicken strips. Want more chicken? Then it’s time for chicken inasal. This is chicken inasal . Now made accessible nationwide by an aptly named fastfood chain, Mang Inasal, Iloilo’s export fastfood chain. This Ilonggo adap...

Probably, the best toasted garlic bread in the market today. It might even upstage the pasta it is partnered with. Thinly sliced and crunchy plus buttery rich and garlicky, what more can you ask for. Grab one now. Actually grabe "more than one"-lol.

Probably the best "packaged" pasalubong item from the city. Yet it was a tourist that introduced me to this stuff. Luckily, it was available sa Deco's Pasalubong center in from of SM Delgado (very convenient rather than going all the way to Arevalo). Priced almost a hundred pesos each, these crunchies and chewies are a welcome change from the usual pasalubong stuff. Crunchies are thin and crisp "cookies" with pinipig, cashew and tsokolate varieties to name a few while chewies (in mango) are thicker and .... chewy. Additional photos courtesy of Weekend Pastime

"WELCOME TO Iloilo. Forget your diet." This was the cheery welcome from no less than Mayor Jerry Treñas, when select press were invited by the Iloilo Economic Development (ILED) Foundation to a weekend tour of the city and neighboring island-province Guimaras. As it turned out, he wasn’t just joking. Wherever we went, the genteel Ilonggos lavished us with the chief beauty—and for the weight-watchers among us, the major bane—of their province: The food. Here are the treats you shouldn’t miss out on for a genuine, manamit Iloilo experience. Photos and article courtesy of Flavors of Iloilo - and where to find them By Jaymee T. Gamil The Philippine Daily Inquirer Sweet surrender With the province renowned as the land of sugar barons, Ilonggo delicacies are as much a legacy as the heritage architecture along the city’s Calle Real. There’s the traditional baked sweets from the Spanish era: Barquillos, cylindrical wafers; biscocho, sugared toasted bread; banadas, sugar cookies gla...

Years ago, I brought these butterscotch as last minute pasalubong when I "ran out" of the Biscocho Haus brand. I was literally scolded by my friend since he didn't quite like it. And I agreed that time after tasting it. From that time on, I referred to this as a not so good butterscotch. So I had second thoughts about buying this one because of that and also its one of the more expensive brands. But the bloglure of having it part of my questfor the best Iloilo butterscotch was so great that I eventually bought them (with eyes closed -lol). If there's any consolation, each bar is big as if they are trying to go for the "quantity". But when I finally tasted one, after years of "shunning" myself ...... ..... it was better than expected. Not necessarily the best in the city but by a mile beats the other four butterscotch I bought that time. A clear winner, even my nephew agress 100%, since it was quite different with its coarser texture and much diffe...