Article: COMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU: AREA SUPPLIERS ARE RUSHING TO MEET THE REGION'S GROWING APPETITE FOR FILIPINO FOOD.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)

Byline: MICHELLE MIZAL-ARCHER Staff writer

Heart of palm strips sauteed with shrimp.

Crab meat simmered with coconut, stuffed in a crab shell and wrapped in banana leaves.

Mango and coconut tapioca.

All can be found on the menu of Via Mare, a gourmet restaurant chain in the Philippines. And starting in September, those same items will be available in the frozen food section of Hampton Roads grocery stores, ethnic food markets and military commissaries thanks to Virginia Beach entrepreneur Joan C. Mallen.

As owner of Oriental Pride Eggroll Factory, founded in 1989, and Philippine American Foods on Virginia Beach Boulevard, ...

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