Email to Masigasig Magazine

Last December 2008, i sent an email to Masigasig magazine of Globe Business and hoping to be chosen as their letter of the month. The content of my email was about our family business which is the “tableya”. Here is my email using my bohol.asia account:

from Dalareich Polot
to sme@globetel.com.ph
date Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:30 PM
subject Home-based business products
mailed-by bohol.asia

details 11/18/08

Hi Masigasig!

I know about your magazine here in auza.net office here in Bohol and i read your last November issue. My Family has a home-based tablea manufacturing business here in Bohol. We supplied tableas or chocolates in supermarkets only here in Bohol. Can you help us distribute our products there in Cebu or Manila? We’ve got many orders there in Manila such as chocolate companies but we have some problems in the courier. We would like to ask for suggestions and advices for the progress of our business. since we are new in the business world. This business is already registered by DTI and BFAD. We are hoping for your reply! Thank You! More Power and God Bless!

Best Regards,

Dalareich P. Polot
+639203605799
Email: dalareich@bohol.asia
Website: http://www.boholbiz.com/dalareich_tableya
DALAREICH TABLEYA
Booy District, Tagbilaran City, Bohol

Last June, 2009, somebody was calling me in the phone inquiring about our products, she is from manila. I asked her where did she got my contact number and she said that she read about our business in the masigasig magazine of globe. I was shocked when she told me that coz im not expecting that my email last december was already published. That’s why i went to globe office after that call to get one of the june issue magazine, and that is really true, my email was published in the the LETTER OF THE MONTH corner of magasig magazine. A week after that, the staff of the masigasig magazine called me, she confirmed that my letter was published. She asked me my complete address and my complete name so that they can send me the package price. I’m really excited to receive that price! hehehe Later in July, when i went home, my mother told me that the package just arrived and that it what i’m waiting for…heheh yehey! I excitedly opened the package of the LBC and i saw the back-up - bag for a laptop, unfortunately i have no laptop to put..hehehhe but that’s okey. I also received a kit containing USB Hub, a very cute mouse, headphone and other gadgets and also globe sim.

Masigasig magazine brings a big impact in the progress of our tablea products, until now we’ve got may inquiries, emails and calls. We also got many additional orders all over the Philippines.

This is a Blessing from the Almighty..we are very thankful for this!

http://www.sme.globe.com.ph/GlobeCSME/images/uploaded/Masigasig_JUNE09_FINAL3_as_printed.pdf

we have already 7 workers!

new product name!

Island Sky Pure Tablea out in the market already...

Cacao

Cacao (Theobroma cacao), or the cocoa plant, is a small (4–8 m or 15–26 ft tall) evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to the deep tropical region of the Americas. There are two prominent competing hypotheses about the origins of the original wild Theobroma cacao tree. One group of proponents believe wild examples were originally distributed from southeastern Mexico to the Amazon basin, with domestication taking place both in the Lacandon area of Mesoamerica and in lowland South America. Recent studies of Theobroma cacao genetics seem to show that the plant originated in the Amazon and was distributed by humans throughout Central America and Mesoamerica. Its seeds are used to make cocoa and chocolate.
The tree is today found growing wild in the low foothills of the Andes at elevations of around 200–400 m (650-1300 ft) in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins. It requires a humid climate with regular rainfall and good soil. It is an understory tree, growing best with some overhead shade. The leaves are alternate, entire, unlobed, 10–40 cm (4-16 in) long and 5–20 cm (2-8 in) broad.

Cacao flowers
The flowers are produced in clusters directly on the trunk and older branches; they are small, 1–2 cm (1/2-1 in) diameter, with pink calyx. While many of the world's flowers are pollinated by bees (Hymenoptera) or butterflies/moths (Lepidoptera), cacao flowers are pollinated by tiny flies, midges in the order Diptera. The fruit, called a cacao pod, is ovoid, 15–30 cm (6-12 in) long and 8–10 cm (3-4 in) wide, ripening yellow to orange, and weighs about 500 g (1 lb) when ripe. The pod contains 20 to 60 seeds, usually called "beans", embedded in a white pulp. Each seed contains a significant amount of fat (40–50% as cocoa butter). Their most noted active constituent is theobromine, a compound similar to caffeine.
The scientific name Theobroma means "food of the gods". The word cacao itself derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec language) word cacahuatl, learned at the time of the conquest when it was first encountered by the Spanish. Similar words for the plant and its by-products are attested in a number of other indigenous Mesoamerican languages.

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Tablea o Tableya

Tableya or Tablea is an unsweetened chocolate rounds made from cacao or cocoa beans. It is an ingredient in the Filipino delicacies especially for Boholano’s sikwate and champorado.

‘Sikwate’ is a hot chocolate drink paired with puto maya, pandesal and others while ‘champorado’ is sweetened rice oatmeal cooked with tableya.

We are one of the tableya makers here in Bohol for 15 years. We are one of the suppliers of Tableya in supermarkets and Malls here in Tagbilaran City, Bohol.

We get our cacao beans from Davao, pure tableya is made only from cacao beans. You can also determine if that tableya is really Pure when you hold it tightly or expose it to the heat of the sun, it will really melt and look likes a real chocolate. When you look it you can really say that it is a real sweet chocolate because of its shape and color but when you taste it is not..

How to make a Pure Tableya?

1.The cacao beans are roasted over wooden fire.
2.After, the beans go on a grinding machine and ground at least two to three times for a smooth liquid consistency.
3.The resulting substance was set aside to cool before they were molded into rounds shapes.
4.Let it dry and pack it with cellophane or with a good packaging.

How to cook sekwati?

1.For ‘Sekwati’: For every cup of boiling water, add three pieces of round tableya.
2.Boil it for two to three minutes. Stir.
3.Remove it from the stove.
4.Add sugar
5.If you desire, you can add milk to make it creamier. Serve hot.

How to cook champorado?

1.Boil 3 to 4 cups of water with cooked rice for 2-3 minutes.
2.When it is already boiling, add 4-5 tablets of Tableya. Stir until the tableya melts.
3.Remove it from the stove.
4.Add sugar
5.If you desire, you can add milk to make it creamier. Serve hot.



We’ve got many orders already of our tableas inside and outside our country. They paid for the shipment and deposit their payment through our bank account. Many of those are from Manila.

The production is daily; we can produce a lot of packs of tableas every week for 100kilos of cacao beans weekly.

The name of our product is Dalareich Tableya, made from 100% pure cacao. You can buy this here in Tagbilaran Supermarkets: Plaza Marcela, Alturas Supermarket and Island City Mall and other small stores here. This is only a homemade product from Booy, Tagbilaran City. It is registered by Department of Trade and Industry(DTI) and approved by Bureau of Food and Drugs(BFAD).

If you want to inquire and ask questions about the prices and for more orders; just leave a comment here or email me: dalux_04@yahoo.com, dalareich@gmail.com. Or contact this numbers: 0927-2141456(globe), 0920-3605799 (smart).

Today's Gospel(Saturday)

Mark 9: 2 - 13
2	And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them,
3	and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
4	And there appeared to them Eli'jah with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus.
5	And Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Eli'jah."
6	For he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid.
7	And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him."
8	And suddenly looking around they no longer saw any one with them but Jesus only.
9	And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead.
10	So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.
11	And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that first Eli'jah must come?"
12	And he said to them, "Eli'jah does come first to restore all things; and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
13	But I tell you that Eli'jah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him."

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