A group of young entrepreneurs is eyeing the California market for Davao-sourced chocolates.
“The Americans they like our tableya so much they eat it raw, usually we make it into tsokolate, there, some of our customers they eat the tableya,” Rago said. Rico Blando the proprietor of Tableya Filipino is looking at expanding their chocolate sources to Marilog. Currently they are sourcing their tableya in Calinan.
“There is a one million metric ton scarcity in the market right now and the Philippines is not yet the biggest player of chocolate in the entire world,” Blando said.