The
CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro
Volume 4 | No. 07 | Cagayan de Oro City | Sept. 26 - Oct. 2, 2016
The Night Stalker:
Zamboanga Satti adds spice to Kagay-an’s Melting Pot
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rom its humble beginnings at the Havelano Square near Plaza Divisoria in the 1990s, Cagayan de Oro’s Culinary Adventure Trail has expanded in the past two and a half decades thanks to people from other places who’ve made this City of Golden Friendship their home.
One of those is Concon Ignacio, Maestra Kusinera of St. Ignatius Country Kitchen at Fernhill Street, Macasandig. Hailing from Asia’s Latin City Zamboanga, this compoblanos of mine has been in Kagay-an (as the Lumad Kagay-anons would call their beloved city) for the past two decades and counting.
Starting as a caterer, Concon has gained a loyal clientle with government agencies and high end clients who don’t mind paying a premium for her delicious creations. However, Concon and St. Ignatius Country Kitchen would most probably be best remembered in Cagayan de Oro as the prime
mover responsible for mainstreaming Zamboangueño (or as many insist Chabacano) and Tausug dishes into the Kagay-anon culinary lexicon. For her latest foray, St. Ignatius Country Kitchen started offering Zamboanga Satti-AllYou-Can for only P99 per head with a free Coke Mismo. As Marjorie Bulahan of Filipino Bloggers Worldwide describes it: Satti is the spicy dish popular among locals of Zamboanga. It is the food that perks up your morning. Satti is served with sticky rice uniquely satti/PAGE 11
Philippine Veterans Bank hold seminar for SMEs Story by MARK FRANCISCO
THE Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) held last Saturday Empowering the SME – Personal Financial Planning for SMEs at Rosario Pavilion, Limketkai Center in Cagayan de Oro City. Jesi Bondoc was the speaker in the half-day seminar. Bondoc is the director of My Wealth MD and Partners, Inc., an investment consultancy firm. He is a registered financial planner and certified investment solicitor. He has more than ten
years experience in the financial services industry. Bondoc writes in MoneySense Magazine and Business Mirror on topics covering personal finance and investments. He has conducted multiple personal finance and investment seminars to various companies and associations in the Philippines. He also appears regularly as a financial expert on ANC’s show On the Money. Topics covered
include setting up financial goals, overcoming obstacles to financial sercurity, steps in creating effective financial goals, measuring your personal financial health, steps in preparing your personal cash flow statement, effective budgting and debt management, building your personal financial safety nets, how to compute for emergency fund, reasons why life and health insurances are Seminar/PAGE 11
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