Dateline: 04 August 2018, SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City
Rains are not the best for liwaliw around the metropolis, but I did get to catch this year's World Food Expo at the SMX Convention Center, with less than three hours remaining before it formally closes, and while 50 percent of me was rain-drenched. It wasn't a comfortable walk-around the trade fair floor - my steps squeaky in rain-soaked shoes, some booths already packing up their wares, others being mobbed by visitors for all-must-go markdowns, and still others the vendors hardly care anymore (probably burned out from all the last-day frenzy).
So decided on a few buys, mainly those that I usually get from. Briefly contemplated if I'd join the mob at the MEGA Sardines booth, where packs of canned fish sold came with a free melamine plate decorated with the profile of the brand endorser Piolo "Papa P" Pascual. I didn't, too crowded, hah!
Still, I left WOFEX 2018 with a smile. Discovered that Dilmah, from Sri Lanka, one of the world's best tea brands, and my personal favorite has an official distributor now in the country.
[This post is antedated: 20180924]
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