Negrense Style Comes To Cebu

The fame of Negros products have reached far and wide as evidenced by those who flock to the Negros Trade Fair in Manila, which happens to be the longest running provincial trade fair in the country at 30 years old.  

This weekend of December 5 and 6, Negrense style finds its way to Cebu with the Negros Artisanal Christmas Bazaar taking place at 856 G Gallery, 856 A.S. Fortuna Street, Banilad, Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines.

 
#Negros Artisanal Christmas Bazaar | Dec 5 & 6, 10am-8pm
#856ggallery #bazaar #cebu #cebuevents #bacolod

Negrense Style Comes To Cebu

Friday, December 04, 2015 City-Cebu, Exhibitions, Hot, Lifestyle, Tradeshows

Bacolod Releases Masskara 2015 Festival Schedule

The Philippines' City of Smiles, Bacolod City, recently released the schedule for the 77th Charter Festival, also known commonly as the MassKara Festival.

The Masskara Festival through the years gives the people of Negros Island, as well as local and foreign visitors, a chance to drink and be merry for 20 days. Originally designed to show the hardships of the people of Negros, the Masskara Festival has come a long way, and is considered one of the most highlighted festivals of the Philippines.

Bacolod City's Masskara Festival takes place here Oct. 1-20. Local and foreign visitors get a chance to enjoy 20 days of merry making, beer drinking, dining and street dancing. On the weekend nearest to 19 October, the biggest party in Bacolod is scheduled to take place. Bacolod is the capital city of the country's sugar-producing province of Negros.

October 1 Events:

Opening Salvo : MassKara, Kari na!
5:30 AM Fun Run from People's House & Fun Walk from Capitol Lagoon to Plaza.
7:00 AM Opening Salvo at the Bacolod Public Plaza
6:00 PM Biggest ZUMBA event in the City at the People's House



Photo Credit to Camera Club of Negros

* Above schedule is a partial list.  For other dates, please Click Here.

Bacolod Releases Masskara 2015 Festival Schedule

Saturday, September 26, 2015 City-Bacolod, Culture, Events, Festivals, Hot, Negros Island, Province-Negros Occidental, Slider

FLASH! Headquarters Of Minions Located In Metro Manila!

FLASH! Headquarters Of Minions Located In Metro Manila! 

FLASH! Headquarters Of Minions Located In Metro Manila!

Monday, August 10, 2015 Hot, Metro Manila, Places

Less Effort More Style Event at The Palace Pool Club on June 30

This June 30, #AxeBlackFabio paints the Palace Pool Club black with his first ever pop-up bar.

Expect his take on #LessEffortMoreStyle.




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Less Effort More Style Event at The Palace Pool Club on June 30

Friday, June 26, 2015 Bars, Events, Hot, Lifestyle, Metro Manila, Parties, People

Filipino Delicacy - Biko (Recipe)

How to make Biko - a favorite Filipino delicacy.

Biko

Ingredients:
2 kg glutinous rice
1 can condensed milk
4 cups water
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
1 cup brown sugar
banana leaves ( optional )
grated coconut meat from 4 coconuts (reserve coco milk)

Procedure:
1. Cook glutinous rice in water just like you do with plain steamed rice.
2. In saucepan, pour brown sugar, coconut milk, condensed milk and vanilla extract.
3. Mix, stir and let boil. Add cooked glutinous rice to coconut milk mixture and cook until thick.
4. Spread evenly on platter (or bilao) lined with banana leaves.
5. Slice and serve.

credits to Sally Estrella for the recipe

Filipino Delicacy - Biko (Recipe)

Saturday, May 30, 2015 Food, Hot, Recipes

The Negros Trade Fair Is On It's 30th Year!

Negros Trade Fair at 30

"Truly Negros"

30th Negros Trade Fair, 
September 16-20, 2015, 
Glorietta Mall, Makati

The Negros Trade Fair Is On It's 30th Year!

Saturday, May 30, 2015 Advertising, Business, Business Activities, City-Bacolod, City-Makati, Conferences, Exhibitions, Hot, Negros Trade Fair, Province-Negros Occidental, Tradeshows

Discovering "Millionaire's Row" in Bacolod City

Heritage conservation advocates are totally aghast at the ongoing demolition of the Carlos Palanca mansion in Pasay.  This comes just a few months after the Army and Navy Club and the Admiral Hotel fell prey to the wreckers of Manila's historic architectural icons.  To those who remember the wonderful edifices of Manila's glorious past, the current spate of demolitions are really a nightmare.

One cannot say the same though of Bacolod City, the premier city in the Philippines' Sugar Bowl.  This summer of 2015, tourists from Metro Manila and all over the country will visit Negros Island, the Sweet Spot of the Philippines and have a glimpse of Bacolod's fabled glory days.  This is due to the revitalization of a small strip of houses known back in the 1930s as "Millionaire's Row".

For those who arrive in Bacolod City and follow what is usually written on travel books and blogs, the usual stops are the Negros Museum, the Provincial Capitol of Negros Occidental, and the Ruins (Mariano Lacson Mansion) which is technically located in the next city of Talisay.

What is often missed in Bacolod is a street which was once known as Millionaire's Row.  This street is hardly publicized because most tour guides can only reach back to Bacolod's glory days of the 1960s and the 1970s.  The importance of this street goes back to the pre-war decade of the 1930s.

It was back in the 1930s when Generoso M. Villanueva, a prominent sugar planter, and his wife Paz, built the first art deco  structure in Bacolod City. Designed solely by the owner, the three-story, poured-concrete steel reinforced building with graceful curved balconies, parapets, and porthole steel-cased windows looks like the Titanic on land. It was known among the locals as the Boat House. Among family, though, it was simply called Daku Balay (the big house).

On the same street, another similar daku balay (big house) also shows the glorious past of Negros and Bacolod City.  This is the house of Don Mariano Ramos.

Mariano Ramos was among the first Presidente Municipals appointed in Bacolod City.  At that time, Bacolod was not yet chartered as a city and thus did not have any mayor yet.  Mariano Ramos was a former classmate of Manuel L. Quezon in Letran and the late president did stop by this house often during his many trips to Negros Island.

Between the two mansions mentioned are other houses which are resplendent of Bacolod's decadent pre-war past.  It is of little wonder then that during the Japanese occupation in World War 2, the head of the Japanese Imperial Army, headed by General Takeshi Kono, took over the houses in Millionaire's Row as these two houses had the tallest miradors (viewing towers) to observe the city from all directions.

The Japanese Imperial Army commanded all forces occupying Negros from Millionaire's Row until the surrender in August 1945.

The street known as Millionaire's Row is commonly known today as Burgos Street.  In the same manner that one visits Lombard Street (the most crooked street in the world) in San Francisco, or the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, or Las Ramblas in Barcelona, one should not miss Burgos Street when in Bacolod City.

All mansions can be viewed from the street as these are all still closed to the public, except one which is the currently run as a museum, the Dizon-Ramos Museum.




Photo credits to Voltaire Siacor (Villanueva Art Deco House) and Lloyd Tronco (Mariano Ramos House)

Discovering "Millionaire's Row" in Bacolod City

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Ancestral Homes, City-Bacolod, Hot, Negros Island, Province-Negros Occidental, Slider