Up to 58% off on authentic and exotic Filipino food at Balaw Balaw

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Up to 58% off on authentic and exotic Filipino food at Balaw Balaw: 


Highlights:
Authentic ethnic Filipino cuisine
All natural, no MSG preservatives
Also has a gallery and museum
Sells food products






Fine Print:
Groupon is valid for 3 months
May purchase multiple Groupons
Reservation required at least 1 day in advance; call +632.651.0110
Printed Groupon is required upon redemption
Operating hours: Monday – Sunday from 10:00am – 10:00pm
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Doreen, the consummate teacher | Inquirer Opinion

Ilang newspaper clippings ng mga artikulo ni Gng. Doreen Gamboa Fernandez tungkol sa Angono, Balaw-Balaw Restaurant at sa may-ari nito na si Perdigon Vocalan ang nakadisplay sa Balaw-Balaw.  Masasabing si Doreen Fernandez ang una at naging daan upang makilala ang Balaw-Balaw dahil sa kanyang mga sinulat na artikulo ukol dito.  

May nabasa din akong artikulo nya na naglalahad hindi lang ng mga pagkaing tatak Angono, tulad ng fried itik, paggamit ng dahon ng alagaw bilang sangkap sa pagluluto at mga luto sa isdang kanduli kundi maging ng mga pagdiriwang sa panahon ng kapistahan ni San Clemente at Salubong sa Pasko ng Pagkabuhay.


Maraming Salamat! Doreen Fernandez.



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 "Oh, to be so loved by one’s students that they would remember, not the drudgery of writing and learning, but the memorable experiences deliberately planned for them, all to be used as material for writing. She took them to trips to nearby Angono for its rich folk and popular culture. When the first McDonald’s first opened in downtown Manila, she took her freshman class there and placed an order of 24 of the following: burgers, fries, apple pies, fizzy drinks—all to discuss, analyze, savor, and write about in a writing exercise back in the classroom. Others cannot forget being led to discover how to open a fish head and its 13 distinct flavors. Another one said he never thought he was any good as a writer until she typed all his poems and photocopied them for the class to appreciate. One considers her the best single teacher he ever had. “She was our excuse to gush,” another one said unabashedly."

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The prince and the poet: Botong and the ultimate collector - The Philippine Star » Lifestyle Features » Arts and Culture

Isang malaking pangarap na makapagpatayo sa bayan ng Angono ng dalawang higanteng Museo  para sa dalawang anak ng Angono na mga Alagad ng Sining.  


Ang una ay para kay Botong na maglalaman ng reproduksyon ng  lahat ng kanyang obra maestra. Sa mga naglalakihang murals na gawa ni Botong ay tunay na magiging higante ang museo na ito. At ang ikalawa ay museo-concert hall para kay Maestro Lucio San Pedro, para bang extension ng CCP sa bayan ng Angono.


Hindi naman masama ang mangarap ngunit kung maisasakatuparan ay malaki ang maitutulong sa patuloy na pagpapayaman sa larangan ng sining at turismo sa bayan ng Angono.



 "MANILA, Philippines - Manila in the 1950s was, quite simply, another time and another place. Glittering, glamorous, Manila was part Vegas, part L.A. Confidential, peopled by hardy entrepreneurs, some say, even buccaneers, who had walked through the flames of World War II and triumphed.

The country was bursting with optimism as well as a steadfast Filipino pride. The future was there for the taking. Men were making matches made in heaven with Miss Universe, couturiers like Ramon Valera and Salvacion “Slim” Lim were confecting visions fit for the Paris runways, and a revolving-door of celebrities from Tyrone Power, Gregory Peck (think Roman Holiday!), Orson Welles, to William Randolph Hearst and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor populated the Manila society pages, while the local business aristocracy would routinely make it to Time Magazine. Sleek skyscrapers, housing nightclubs, theaters, as well as bustling multinational offices, jostled side by side to fill the skyline."

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PH's 'Cinderella Man' receives RING flyweight belt | ABS-CBN News

Angono, hindi lang pang artists, pang sports pa! Sonny Boy Jaro, maipagmamalaking Adopted Son of Angono.


PH's 'Cinderella Man' receives RING flyweight belt

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Posted at 06/20/2012 6:39 PM | Updated as of 06/20/2012 6:39 PM

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino boxing champion Sonny Boy Jaro finally received his The RING flyweight belt months after his sixth-round technical knockout victory over Thai boxing legend Pongsaklek Wonjongkam.

Jaro, who also owns the World Boxing Council (WBC) flyweight crown, was handed the RING belt at the Angono Municipal Gymnasium in Rizal, according to RingTV.


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Rizal Promotes Laguna Lake Protection | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

'di kaya dapat ay magkaroon na ng moratorium sa pagko-convert sa pagiging subdibisyon ng mga bundok na nakapaligid sa Laguna Lake. Reforestation ang higit na makakatulong sa pagbuhay ng Lawa ng Laguna.

Rizal Promotes Laguna Lake Protection

By NEL ANDRADE

June 17, 2012, 3:44pm

ANGONO, Rizal – In its continuing effort to protect and preserve the Laguna Lake, the provincial government and the local government here have joined forces in the recent tree-planting activities along the lakeshore villages of this town.

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'Bizarre Foods' host sees Pinoy food fad in US | ABS-CBN News

Balaw Balaw Folk Food Restaurant of the family of Perdigon Vocalan is really popular with all this international exposure by Mr. Andrew Zimmern of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods.


 "MANILA, Philippines -- "Bizarre Foods" host Andrew Zimmern is predicting Filipino cuisine to be the next big thing among American diners.

Zimmern made the prediction an interview with the website of the US morning show "Today," which was published on Tuesday.

“I predict, two years from now, Filipino food will be what we will have been talking about for six months … I think that’s going to be the next big thing,” he told Today.com.

“I want to go on record — this is not something that’s hot now somewhere and will get hot everywhere else,” he said. “It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it’s all been exploited."

"The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar — techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous,” he told the website."

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Works of Blanco family of artists from Angono featured in New York exhibit

Another feat for The Great Blanco Family of Artists of Angono!

Works of Blanco family of artists from Angono featured in New York exhibit

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Pinoy Abroad » World Features

The family that creates art together stays together.

 

The renowned Blanco family from Angono, Rizal are the featured artists at the Philippine Center in New York for Philippine Independence Month, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday.

 

The Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in New York and the Philippine Center Management Board (PCMB) jointly organized the exhibit by the Blanco family from June 3 to 15.

 

Dubbed "Art by the Blanco Family," the exhibit is "part of this year's celebration of the 114th anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine Independence," the DFA said in a news release. 

 

The works exhibited were made by the second and third generations of the Blanco family, all taught by their late patriarch and Filipino master Jose Blanco: Glen, Noel, Michael, Joy, John, Gay, and Peter Paul and their children.

 

The DFA said the Blanco family is best known for a folk realism style, depicting the so-called "Tagalog Pastorale."

 

Many of the subjects of their works are based on the flora and fauna as well as the rituals of rural life in their hometown of Angono, Rizal.

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SULIT TRUE TO ITS NAME; Online ad exchange yields millions for couple

Ang kakayahan at galing ng mga taga-Angono ay hindi lang sa larangan ng sining kundi maging sa makabagong teknolohiya ng Internet.  
Sa dami ng mga artists sa Angono, di kaya dapat ay pagtuunan din ng pansin ang pagpapaunlad sa sining gamit ang makabagong teknolohiya, tulad ng graphic arts and design.

"RJ David dreamed of inventing something that can be used by many people. His wife, Arianne, wanted a business. Together, they established an online classified advertising site that got them what they both fancied—and more.

Sulit.com.ph (sulit is Tagalog for “worth it” or something that measured up to expectations) was created and launched in RJ’s bed room in 2006. It did not take long before the venture got him into a boardroom.

RJ and Arianne, his girlfriend then, started with an experimental website to test what product will bring the heaviest traffic.

RJ said he spent P2,400 to put up the website, P1,800 of which was used to pay for the domain name and P600 for the hosting.

“What we poured in was time and effort, not much in terms of money was needed,” RJ said.

RJ said the first few months of operating the site was difficult, with Arianne and him alternating for a morning and night shifts to maintain and oversee it.

Their first office, he said, was the terrace of his parents’ house in Angono, Rizal."

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