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Making Pandesals at 5:30am

Post author By superadmin
Post date March 25, 2026
Categories In Food Entrepreneur, Personal
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It’s 5:30 in the morning. The café is still quiet, the street outside barely awake. I’m in the small bakery corner of Taguan, shaping dough into small rounds, lining them up carefully so they’re ready for the morning bake. The smell of yeast hangs in the air. There’s something calming about this part of the […]

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