This dish is prepared on special occasions by families since it takes a lot of effort to cook it as it involves the process of twining nipa leaves as wrappers to create a packet for its packaging.

It is one of the native delicacies sold at the Kadiwa ng Pangulo (KNP) at the Provincial Park in Roxas City as part of the nationwide simultaneous caravan to provide accessible and affordable food supply to the consumers.

The native snack food has been included in the online catalogue, The Ark of Taste, of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity.

She is among the few in Panay town who carried on the knowledge and skills she acquired from her aunt and grandmother whom she accompanied during her younger years in cooking and selling native delicacies.

Out of the 241 KNP exhibitors in Western Visayas, there were a total of 50 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), retailers, farmers, and fishermen in the province who joined. The event provided them with an alternative marketing platform and has given consumers access to fresh and affordable agricultural and fishery products.  

The nationwide simultaneous launching of the KNP was able to sell rice with a special promotion of P20.00 per kilo for every P150.000 worth of purchase in any items from the Kamapat Agriculture Cooperative which also sold a variety of fresh vegetables at the Evelio B. Javier (EBJ) Freedom Park in San Jose, Antique.

Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. led the ceremonial signing of a deal on Kadiwa with other concerned national government agencies while in San Fernando, Pampanga last July 17 to put up KNP centers in local government units nationwide as part of the Marcos administration’s long-term plan to bring local agricultural products closer to consumers.

The signatories of the agreement include the Department of Agriculture, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of the Interior and Local Government, Presidential Communications Office and the Presidential Management Staff.

Like in the Mimaropa region, at least seven KNP outlets were established in time with the nationwide caravan.

These outlets will run until July 19 to offer locally grown, fresh and affordable goods for the consumers.

In Occidental Mindoro, processed foods like Richblitz sweets, meat products and locally-made chocolates were among the good finds at its Kadiwa site.

Calamansi products like concentrate and its byproducts are also showcased in the KNP in Oriental Mindoro while fresh and nutritious vegetables, fruits, poultry products, nuts and dried foodstuffs are being sold at the Kadiwa in Palawan.