The city of Nottingham - UK now has its own Filipino store and carinderia (KARINDERIA).
The store, which has already been open for eight months, sells a range of popular Asian and Pinoy cooking products, snacks and condiments.
The two businesses the A&J Philippines Asian Products and A&J Karinderia are owned by Ofelia Hutchinson, who named the ventures after her daughters Alejandra and Juliana. It is sit next to each other in the Victoria Market within shopping mall, the Victoria Centre.
It attracts a variety of customers including Cameroonian Alan Job, who runs a store in the market that serves African cuisine.
The karinderia serves dishes like afritada, dinuguan, kilawin, kare-kare, and even breakfast, such as tapsilog and longsilog.
Before A&J opened, Filipinos in the area could only purchase Pinoy products locally from Chinese grocery stores, or from kababayans that were selling them secretly from their own homes.
The store also gained recognition when it was featured by BBC1 Radio and local newspaper, the Nottingham Post.
It was also visited a few months ago by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, who was reportedly amazed to see banana catsup for sale.
Good news for Pinoys based there and who go there for performances. Is that pancit canton on the shelves? I remember a few of our students going there for a some weeks to perform a few years back. Their adviser said they missed eating pancit canton more than anything else!
ReplyDeleteRoly Manansala