Virgie's Homemade Products

Virgie Chua started baking cakes and pastries for family and friends in 1974.  Her homemade banana cakes and pastillas de mangga were her customers' favorites.  She opened a small outlet beside their rented house and that started it all.  

Virgie's has become a one-stop-pasalubong center since you can find here a wide assortment of Bacolod delicacies and sweets.

napoleones

Now a very popular pastry is the napoleones.  Yuppies coming from Manila go crazy over it.  It has a flaky crust with a creamy custard cream with light sugar icing as topping.  The box contains 12 pcs of napoleones.

pastillas de mangga

A bestseller is the, the pastillas de mangga is a half moon shaped tart with mango jam filling.  it is also called the mango tart.  It has a flaky crust and very chewy.  Sometimes you can get it hot, since it is baked fresh everyday.

Dainty tarts with cheese filling topped with meringue.

Food for the Gods & Butter Scotch

Very much like a Butterscotch, the Food for the Gods contain candied Iranian dates to give it a different taste and texture.

Butterscotch is a scrumptious butter bar topped with native oven-roasted cashews.

Both are primarily made from brown sugar, butter and flour.

Assorted polvoron

Polvoron is one of Virgie's classics.  These creamy sweets are made from flour, powdered milk and sugar.  The new flavors are Cookies 'n Cream, Casoy and Pinipig.

Boat tarts

Popularly called boat tarts because of its boat shaped crust, this is a rich and creamy buttery caramel laced with meringue icing on top to give that tender fluffy bite. 

Now you know where to go for your pasalubong shopping.  And it's all in one roof! 

Virgie's Homemade Products                                                               Tel. No. 034-4341588
No. 59 San Sebastian St.,                                                                                  034-4341700
Bacolod City                                                                                http://virgieshomemade.com/

Opens 8am to 630pm daily
except on Sundays, closes at 6pm

Welcome to Bacolod City!

Bacolod City, the City of Smiles!


What comes to mind when you say 'Bacolod'?

Masskara Festival!

Bacolod Chicken Inasal............. Napoleones ............ Piaya ....... Sugar....and more!

Bacolod is known as a food haven for food lovers because it has a wide array of food choices from dishes to delicacies to pastries and anything sweet.

This site will feature must-eat food items when visiting Bacolod.  This will serve as a guide to visitors and tourists on where to try them.  This site will show you where to buy those delectable delicacies and pasalubong concocted in our province of Negros Occidental.

This will also feature Negrense cuisine formulated and prepared  by locals using local ingredients which our visitors may try at some restaurants.

Your culinary cravings will surely be satisfied when you come to Bacolod.  If not, keep on coming!

Chef Myrna Segismundo has declared in an interview at TV Patrol Bacolod during the Sabor Bisaya 2013 that Bacolod is the Pastry Capital of the country!

Here's a tip when planning to go to Bacolod:  Watch your weight a week before going to Bacolod.  You will surely gain a few pounds when indulging to your gustatory delights.

Disclaimer:  The author is not responsible for any discomfort or physical changes due to excess consumption of Bacolod yummy treats.