Tultul is a block of salt that lives on the island of Guimaras but has vanished in Iloilo’s food memory. It’s called tultul. It looks like a chunk of white coral with a gray, cement-like base. Run your finger on its surface and it will taste salty. The couple Serafin […]

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The Iloilo provincial government is again calling for interested applicants to its Iskolar sang Iloilo Program (ISIP). ISIP is a four/five-year college scholarship implemented by the Iloilo Provincial Government through Executive Order No. 20 Series of 1996 which aims to assist poor but deserving students in the Province by providing […]

A curious bakery in Iloilo is known as Buho Bakery. Buho means “hole” in llonggo. The name comes from the custom of dispensing early morning or late evening bread from a little hole in the wall, a buho. Foo Lan Sew started the bakery in the mid-20th century. The hard-working […]

The official name of the bakery is Jaro Bakery and Grocery. Yet, it is still better known as “Panaderia ni Pa-a (Pa-a’s Bakery),” after the late Uy Pa. Pa-a’s father, Chiquito Uy, opened the bakery. Exactly when no one knows, except that the oldest document found on the premises was […]