{"id":78873,"date":"2016-07-21T03:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=78873"},"modified":"2016-07-21T03:12:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:12:49","slug":"vip-guests-treated-native-merienda-buffet-sona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/21\/vip-guests-treated-native-merienda-buffet-sona\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP guests to be treated to a native merienda buffet after SONA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Merienda buffet menu at President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u2014In keeping with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s vow of a simple lifestyle for government officials under his administration, a Filipino merienda buffet will be offered to about 800 guests after the President\u2019s first State of the Nation Address (SONA).<\/p>\n

According to the list sent by the Office of Executive Director Edith Cardenas, chairperson of the Committee on Reception and Protocol, the merienda buffet will start at 5 p.m. on July 25 at the Batasang Pambansa.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the dress code for Pres. Duterte’s upcoming SONA has been changed to \u201csimple business attire,\u201d a departure from the traditional grand red carpet fashion show by members of Congress and their spouses, in order to shift focus from grandiose appearance to substantive governance.<\/p>\n

On the menu are:<\/p>\n

Native chips: Salted duck egg dressing (on cocktail tables)<\/p>\n

Monggo soup, smoked fish with alugbati (grissini bread)<\/p>\n

Fresh lumpia ubod in pouch<\/p>\n

Empanaditas (chicken and spicy tuna)<\/p>\n

Sotong goreng<\/p>\n

Crispy triangles of flaked chicken adobo and mushrooms\/fried lumpiang ubod<\/p>\n

Pandesal with kesong puti and beef steak<\/p>\n

Penne with taba ng talangka sauce<\/p>\n

Balut pate in profiteroles<\/p>\n

Chicken skin crackling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u2014In keeping with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s vow of a simple lifestyle for government officials under his administration, a Filipino …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,16,95],"tags":[11670,6054,167,11671,11669,4851],"class_list":["post-78873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-buffet","tag-duterte","tag-food-2","tag-menu","tag-merienda-buffet","tag-sona","mauthors-cielito-m-reganit","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}