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Filipino Americans To Picket Bon Appétit Magazine’s New York Headquarters

October 27, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – Bon Appétit is an American food and entertaining magazine published monthly. It is headquartered in New York City.

Today, a coalition of Filipino American organizations throughout the country announced that it will stage a week-long picket in front of the magazine’s New York office.

At issue? The Filipino halo-halo, a unique and traditional snack akin to the Hawaiian shave ice.

In a recent article, “Ode to Halo-Halo,” the magazine re-invented the Filipino sweet delicacy by substituting its ingredients with gummy bears.

That didn’t sit well with the Pinoys (slang for Filipino), so they are staging a protest to demand that Bon Appétit recall all copies of the issue where the gummy bear halo-halo was featured.

Don’t mess with the Filipinos. Especially with their halo-halo!

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Duterte State Visit: China To Import One Million Tons Of Adobo From The Philippines

October 22, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – While the rest of the world is still trying to figure out what exactly President Rodrigo Roa Duterte meant by “separating from America,” both China and the Philippines today announced a new bilateral trade deal that will begin immediately.

It is well known that China is the world’s largest steel exporter and the Philippines has been importing Chinese steel to the tune of about 1.2 Million metric tons per year.

Under the new trade agreement, the Philippines will double its steel imports from China.

In return, China will import 1 Million metric tons of pork and chicken adobo this year, subject to a 15 percent increase in the coming years.

The Philippines needs the steel to boost its infrastructure boom while China says that there is a huge demand for Filipino adobo among the Chinese people who just can’t perfect the art of making adobo.

Duterte told The Adobo Chronicles that the new trade agreement is reflective of a truly bilateral partnership which he said was lacking in his country’s decades-long relationship with America.