The 84-year-old Kamuning Bakery Café in Quezon City is celebrating the annual #WorldPandesal Day on October 16.
They are giving away 100,000 pieces of pandesal for free on the said date.
Top celebrities shared their favorite ways of eating the uniquely Filipino bread pandesal.
Movie actress, former Batangas Governor and former Deputy Speaker Vilma Santos Recto said: “My favorite is coffee and cheese in my pandesal!!!”
Movie producer Mother Lily Y. Monteverde said: “My favorite is pandesal with bukayo!”
National Artist for music Ryan Cayabyab said: “My favorite is oven-warmed pandesal with hardened butter, dunked in a cup of hot tablea or traditional chocolate, making sure butter is not completely melted. Yummmmy!”
National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts Ricky Lee said: “I love eating pandesal with peanut butter, sometimes cheese. I don’t drink coffee.”
Actress and beauty queen Ruffa Gutierrez said: “I love eating hot pandesal with butter. It’s most delicious when you dip it in hot coffee with milk in the mornings or merienda time.”
Comedian Giselle Sanchez said: “I like eating pandesal with cheese. Kesong puti is the best cheese for pandesal. The Italians would go wild once they get to taste pandesal with kesong puti. Cheapest nutritious merienda out there.”
Actress Barbie Forteza said: “My favorite is yung classic pandesal paired with brewed coffee.”
Actress Iza Calzado said: “Pandesal toasted with kesong puti and butter and paired with hot chocolate is heavenly!!!”
Actress Sunshine Cruz said: “I love pandesal! I place my favorite salted butter or margarine and dip the pandesal sa black coffee. Also perfect with fried egg. Sinasawsaw ko ang Pandesal sa egg yolk.”
Singer Cooky Chua said: “I love hot pandesal with palaman of egg or laing.”
Actor Albert Martinez said: “I love old school way of hot pandesal in the morning with kesong puti and good Batangas coffee.”
Actor and painter Jao Mapa said: “I love toasted pandesal bread with butter or sometimes with peanut butter.”
Quezon City Councilor and actor Alfred Vargas said: “My favorite way of eating pandesal is when it’s fresh and hot straight from the ‘pugon’, then I’ll put kesong puti as ‘palaman’ or Coco Jam when I’m craving for something sweet. I’ll have the local hot chocolate with it to complete the treat. That is the way we do it in Sta. Maria, Bulacan, my hometown.”
The first World Pandesal Day was held on October 16, 2015 as spearheaded by Kamuning Bakery Café in Quezon City.
Special guests were GMA Network, Inc. Chairman Atty. Felipe Gozon, Senator Sonny Angara and National Youth Commission (NYC) Commissioner and actor Dingdong Dantes.
The public is invited to annual #WorldPandesalDay celebration on October 16.
Starting at 10am, the bakery will give away 100,000 pandesal, cheese, sardines, ham, juices.
Kamuning Bakery Cafe is located at Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, Barangay Kamuning, Quezon City.
Special guests include Senate Agriculture & Food Committee Chairman Senator Cynthia A. Villar.
The public is also invited on the eve of #WorldPandesalDay on October 15, with Kamuning Bakery Café offering free medical and dental check up from 8am to 12 noon.
Kamuning Bakery Cafe owner Wilson Lee Flores said the goal of “World Pandesal Day” is to honor the humble yet great pandesal as national bread of the Philippines. It is also meant to highlight the need to solve the age-old problem of hunger and poverty.
World Pandesal Day has the support of Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII), Chinese General Hospital, Philippine Foremost Milling, San Miguel Mills, Mondelez Philippines, Hobe Noodles, Mega Sardines, King Sue Ham, Yan Yan International Phils. Inc., Nash Coffee, Caltex in Iba Malhacan Road in Meycauayan Exit of Bulacan, Cathedral Cargo Movers Trucking and Pagcor.
