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Banana ketchup is so common in Filipino food now that it’s easy to forget it came out of a specific moment in history.
María Orosa spent years studying ways the Philippines could rely less on imported food, long before World War II disrupted supply chains across the country. Her banana-based ketchup became more widely used during the war, when tomatoes became harder to access, but it was only one part of her larger food preservation work during the Japanese occupation.
Orosa later died during the Battle of Manila in 1945. Decades later, banana ketchup remains part of everyday Filipino cooking, while newer Filipino American brands like @badforbusinessny continue finding new ways to reinterpret it.
Huge thank you to @lovedearflor for being part of our event and creating such a relaxing experience 🌿✨ We loved learning more about the brand, the products, and the intention behind everything they do.
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Albert Ian Delos Santos grew up around weightlifting.
Both of @nai_71kg 's parents were former athletes, and his mother now works as a national coach in the Philippines. He also trains under Julius Naranjo, the longtime coach and husband of Hidilyn Diaz, whose Olympic gold medal helped bring new attention to the sport back home.
By his late teens, Delos Santos was already being viewed as one of the country’s top young weightlifting prospects.
That made his performance in Egypt even more remarkable.
According to the International Weightlifting Federation, the 19-year-old competed at the 2026 World Junior Championships just weeks after suffering a back injury that reportedly left him unable to walk for several days. He also lost his father to liver cancer about two months before the tournament.
Delos Santos still went on to lift 187 kilograms, or about 412 pounds, in the clean and jerk, setting a new junior world record in the men’s 71-kilogram division.
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Negros is one of the Philippines’ main sugar-producing regions, where large plantations still play a major role and many workers do not own the land they work on.
Work follows the harvest. When the season ends, jobs can drop off until the next cycle begins. In 2021, farmers had one of the highest poverty rates in the country.
The province has also seen repeated clashes involving sugar workers. In past cases, disputes centered on wages and land.
The recent killings are not the same as those incidents. But they happened in a place where those tensions have surfaced more than once.
Our third annual Sosyal is here! This time in spring for AAPI Month and ahead of the primary, which means we’re also raising support for @ragaforqueens ’s State Senate campaign. We’re hosting at @fromkora in Sunnyside, with a special menu they made just for us (adobo garlic rice tots, spam & cheese pain suisse, lumpia) plus their signature sweets, comedian @erickestebancomedy on the mic, and sounds by @gabrieletrata . 😎
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Contributions help make sure we get @ragaforqueens to the State Senate!
Thank you to everyone who came out 🤍
From the Q&A with @lovedearflor , to the sound bath meditation with @just.me.mikki , to @spaceroyz performance , and the delicious @mikeshothoney — the energy in the room was something special.
We hope you left feeling inspired, grounded, and connected.
More experiences like this coming soon… stay close ✨
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19 people died in Toboso.
If you’ve been following along, you already know this isn’t just about one operation. It’s about land, sugar. and a system of control over the land.
When something like this happens, the first thing people reach for isn’t facts.
It’s labels.
Insurgent. Activist. Civilian. Corned beef.
Once you decide what someone was, you don’t have to ask who they were.
This is what red-tagging does.
This is what language does.
It answers the question before the investigation does.
The details are still being worked out. The classification is still being argued. But the narrative is already moving.
Outside the Philippines, most of the world has no idea what happened.
I’m not here to explain this definitively.
I’m here because I have questions, starting with who these people were.
If you read nothing else, read the last slide.
Keep asking who they were.
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Most people tie early Filipino American history to the West Coast, especially the 1900s farmworker era. But historians have documented Filipino settlements along the Gulf Coast much earlier.
During the 1700s, the Philippines and Louisiana were both under Spanish rule, connected by trade routes that moved people and goods across the Pacific and into the Americas. Some Filipino sailors left Spanish ships in the Gulf region and later settled in the wetlands along what is now coastal Louisiana.
Their presence didn’t follow a typical migration pattern, and much of it is known through limited and scattered records. As families formed and communities mixed with local populations, that history became less visible in the way it’s usually taught.
Today, traces of that history remain through descendants in Louisiana, even if the original settlements no longer exist.
For more on Louisiana Filipino history and community, check out @bayoubarkada .
Halo-halo literally means mix-mix.
Which is why I have feelings about reducing it to coconut and ube.
To be clear: I haven’t tried @cityseltzer halo-halo seltzer yet, so this isn’t a review. It’s a reaction to the idea of turning halo-halo into one “flavor.”
Because halo-halo is iconic precisely because it refuses to be one thing.
It’s built layer by layer, based on taste, memory, mood, family, region, freezer contents, and whoever has control of the spoon.
Some people need leche flan.
Some go heavy on langka.
Some want more kaong, nata, saba, pinipig.
Someone’s auntie is putting corn in there and defending it in court.
In this video, I share my own halo-halo build:
fresh mango
@magnoliaicecream Buko Pandan ice cream
Convent of the Good Shepherd ube jam
and one very special, possibly controversial ingredient 👀
Now I want to see how you halo-halo.
DM me a photo or video of your build: family-style, restaurant-style, freezer-cleanout-style, “don’t judge me until you try it” style.
We’ll feature a few of our favorites in Stories, and one favorite will receive a very special thank-you gift from Dear Flor.
Because halo-halo was never meant to be one thing.
It was always meant to be yours.
No purchase necessary. 21+. U.S. only.
