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Blend of flavors and culture with Chef Coco P Cruz on LVFRG Radio Show · PHLV Radio

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  anything Filipino and Las Vegas. This is the Las Vegas Filipino Resource Guide Radio
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  show on PHLV Radio. Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of the
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  Las Vegas Filipino Resource Guide here at PHLV Radio. I am your host,
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  Miss Sarah mool Paglino want thank you for tuning in. For those who don't
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  and listen to us directly on there. Okay, before we get to today's
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  guests. Next month is April, so it's the Filipino food movement, which
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  is a really exciting event for all of us because I'm sure we all love
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  food and food really connects people together. So to kick things off. We
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  have a very fun and surprise guest today as well as her fellow entourage.
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  Let me do a little bit of an introduction before we pan to her.
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  So, her name is Chef Coco pa Cruise. She is a celebrity executive
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  chef for over twenty years and the first female nationwide chef. She's the owner
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  and founder of Chef Coco Pea Cruise. Her cooking show Sorry, will be
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  televised nationwide starting next year of Spring twenty twenty five. She is the owner,
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  founder and executive chef and along her alongside her today we have her executive
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  director at the Cell Mendosa and her executive manager at the Christine Buena Vista.
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  Okay, hello, thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for
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  having us. Yes, I'm so excited to be here. You are,
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  Yeah, Chef Coco, you wanna give a little bit of an introduction to
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  yourself. Again, I want to say thank you very much for having me.
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  My name is Chef Coco Pie Cruz. And oh well, I'm so
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  blessed to be here on PHLV and again thank you for the beautiful host,
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  the partner that they have inside the studio. And I also want to say
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  thank you to my executive director and my executive manager Shelle of course and Christine.
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  So I'm so excited to be here. And as for me, I'm
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  based here, back here again in Las Vegas. I was based in California
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  for a few years, and now I'm back because, yeah, our cooking
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  show got picked up to become the first national cooking show here in America.
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  So I'm so excited. Wow, how exciting? So you were you weren't
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  in Vegas originally? So I did? I do live in Las Vegas.
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  I've been living in Vegas for twenty five years. Okay, okay, but
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  what happened was I moved to California. Yeah, because I had I purchased
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  my own cooking show in California. So I invested on myself to be on
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  k xl A for ten months. I had two seasons. Wow, and
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  oh girl, it's like a very awesome journey because I even sold my house
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  just to be on televison. Really yeah, but then who would have thought
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  my show got picked up to become the first national cooking show. So that's
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  you know, it's a it's a good it's a good investment. Yeah,
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  you took a chance on yourself and I did I've been doing that. Yes,
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  absolutely, well welcome, well, I mean you've been here, but
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  welcome back to you all right, yeah, thank you, thank you.
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  And then to your side we also have at Christine. Yes, you want
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  to give a little bit of an introduction and tell us a little bit about
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  yourself. Yes, hi everyone, I'm Christine Buonavista. Just met to Las
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  Vegas also just and I'm so thankful to be here today phil ILV radio.
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  It's my first time here and I'm so blessed to be next to chef and
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  yeah, thank you Christine at the cell. Yes, I'm Shell Mendoza.
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  I'm Chef Coco P. Cruz, executive director and we've been like together for
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  like about a year now so, but actually also moved from Maryland. So
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  I recently moved like a year and a half ago. I thought you've been
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  here for it's because we may be because of the Kavida Association of Yeah,
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  but I've only been here almost like two years so, but I was in
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  Maryland all along for twenty one years. Wow. But I love it here.
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  I feel like there are so many family and friends here, so that's
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  why I moved so you'll stay here for yes, because Christie, she's new
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  here Hawaii, she moved from Hawaii. How are you liking it? I
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  love it. It still feels like home. It's our ninth island, all
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  the food, all the people. My coworkers also are from Hawaii, so
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  oh my god, I hope you enjoy and stay here a long time too.
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  Born and raised, I haven't left. So I love when I meet,
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  you know, new people and they really love it here because yeah,
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  it just means like, hey, I picked a good hometown to be born.
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  How did you all get connected, the three of you? Well,
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  I first started last year. I first met Shell. I went to her
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  and kind of like a grand opening or something like that. And then right
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  away, my my, my guarden angel was telling me, Coco, look
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  behind you look. Yeah, I did saw her the first time she walked
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  in. She was with a couple of people, and I right away I've
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  noticed her, like, you know, like, oh, there's something about
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  her, maybe because the way she wear her clothing or she like she has
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  that beautiful personality. And then it keeps telling me just look look. And
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  the next thing, you know, my bodyguard, Carlos, he told me,
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  if I want you to meet Shell and I looked like, oh my
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  gosh, just like that. It's like right away an Instagram, like that's
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  the person I wanted to meet. But we were like prying to be at
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  the bar. We were meeting with Mikayla because we were there for something.
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  Yeah, so we were there so me well like president like of the Comedian
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  Association before. So we went there to find a space for the Christmas and
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  oh yes, okay, so and we're like looking for a space. That's
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  why we met with Biquila to check out their bor And that's how I'm medical.
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  Yeah, like small Worland, that's how it started. Yeah, it's
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  like you manifested. Yeah, I will. Actually I was already looking for
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  a director executive director because when they told me that, chef, if you're
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  not going to look for your crew, I do have a solid crew for
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  my production. We've been together for over twenty years. Can they helped you
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  in California? Yeah, that's so that's my production. Of course, I'm
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  the producer of my whole show. But they told me to look already for
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  a president that's going to handle you then, and you need another executive director
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  to help, I mean a manager to help her. And then so I'm
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  looking and I'm looking and then yeah, I guess it's meant to be.
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  And then I have Yeah, I have a skincare adults, so I have
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  this Hellal certified skin produc So fee was great. And so my friend,
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  my friend invited her to my office and that's how I met her. And
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  right away I said, do you want to be friends? She's like,
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  she's six foot old lady, and I mean here, I am about five
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  feet and I said, oh my gosh, do you want to be my
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  friend? And then they looked up to her, you know, yes.
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  So that's how I all started from ever since then. And I didn't know
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  that they were going to be connected without me. They got connected. We're
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  not connected and met without so then it all just came together. Yeah,
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  yeah, oh you do know each other. Yeah, we're from there.
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  And just I said, oh my gosh, because I recruited her to comte
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  the associations, of course is a member, and oh my gosh, I
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  love that because I can tell from when I first met you, the energy
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  of everyone's you know, aura just fix like a puzzle piece. So you
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  called them out and yeah, father, God did it has to be because,
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  like what I said, I've been walking on my my own so I'm
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  a product myself. So being a product myself, there's a lot of journey
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  that you have to go through. So, like what I said in the
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  beginning, even before we had started that, I even said, I sold
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  my house just to be on television. So I'm very dedicated on my love
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  of passion, not because of cooking. It's just I know I'm gonna be
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  somebody. But you yeah, I said, Father, you know you're gonna
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  pick out another chef next to Marcus Stewart anyways, and she's one of my
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  favorite, so might as well, you know, have that kind of mentality.
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  So so, but I didn't know in my direction where where Father God
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  led me. He led me to to work with good people. He led
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  me to become a private chef. He led me. I was so happy
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  because even I didn't even know I was going to be a chef because my
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  first degree was INTERI Decorator, so I have that's where I graduated from.
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  And then and then one day as I was talking to my mom, I
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  said, Mom, all of us can cook. My mom is a cook.
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  She cooked, she cooks for Princess and Princesses of India for twenty years.
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  My grandma was an executive chef for heel Too in Beverly Hills for twenty
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  nine years. So I asked my mom. I said, Mom, that
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  anybody went to culinary. She says, no, Coco, we just learned
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  on our own. We cook good, just but when you cook, your
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  cook with love. And then I said, okay, well then well in
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  culinary they told me, ay, Coco, you wanted to be a cook,
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  right, I said, yeah, well if you if you want,
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  they're giving scholarship okay, human resource Okay, and I said, oh,
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  okay, then let me try it. And then they looked at my schedule
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  and they said, oh, I think you qull it I to become a
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  professional cach And I said, yeah, sure, why not? You know?
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  So I applied and then when I had When I had applied, they
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  told me, we will pay for your scholarship, but you have to be
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  like a a student. Yeah's good. If you don't, then you pay
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  for you. They said, well help you. You just have to make
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  sure. You just have to make sure. Well I didn't know I was
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  gonna. I was so blessed. I didn't know that I got I graduated.
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  I was a plus. There's only two of us, so mgm Araje
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  Culinary paid for my whole scholarship. That's what I'm saying, Like, when
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  it's meant to be for you, it's meant but there's a lot there for
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  you. Yeah, there's a lot of hard work. Education is not easy.
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  That's the thing that people forget because they just see, you know,
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  the surface as they don't know what you're doing. Yes, it's not Yeah,
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  So that that's kind of what my follow up question was, this wasn't
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  your original career plan? So that so was it your mom that inspired you
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  to follow it? Or number one is my mom? Okay, but more
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  like, because one time I had to post something on Facebook and this was
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  twelve years ago, and there was there was a girl her husband was executive
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  chef also, and I keep posting, you know how good we can cook?
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  So she commented, Yeah, she commented, Hey, Coco, you
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  keep posting food in Facebook. Did any of you guys went to culinary?
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  That kind of hit me. I said, oh, you know, like
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  for for for for I'm like, why not? Yeah, you know I'm
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  better Anyway, It's like a sign. Yeah, and that was twelve years
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  ago. And I said, oh, none, So I called my mom
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  and then Mom goes. I said, Mom, did, why are you
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  such a great cook? Yeah? And then I said did you? Did
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  you even go to any school or even great grandma or great roma? She
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  says, I only finished sixth grade? You know. So that made me
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  like, hmm, you know why not? Right? But the difference me
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  is when when I really cook, like uh, like it's like a science
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  to me, Like, you know, I can come up with recipe that
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  was never made before. Yeah, Like I made five cookbooks like it's oh,
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  it's literally like a science. When I sit there, I can make
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  like fifty recipes, can just put stuff together. Yeah. So I know,
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  I said, oh, I have a chance, you know, but
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  I have to manifest. I have to ask for the guy. This is
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  what I really want to do because I don't want to leave my career.
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  I'm an interior decorator. Yeah. I work for a se too. Yeah
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  yeah so and then plus I make a lot of money. But don't get
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  me wrong, I made more money as a cocktail waitress. I was a
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  cocktail waitress. Yeah, but not inside the see you know, I was
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  a cocktail waitress at the pool for eight years. And you can you imagine
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  working at the pool. You know, it's twenty degrees. But I'm a
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  hustler. I said, I will pay for this, honestly have imagined that,
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  you know, you know, yeah, take care of my mom,
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  my dad, my formerly. I have a big family. And I said,
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  okay. But then that that's that led me to something like great,
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  like oh, that's why I was in and Colin and that's why I was
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  a cocktailatress because I'm going to get to the culinary. And then I didn't
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  know I was gonna graduate a plus where they paid for all you get.
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  So it's just all yeah. And then next thing, you know, I
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  said, you know what I think. I think I have a chance.
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  I want to create my own YouTube channels. Yeah, I opened up my
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  own YouTube channel. I bought two cameras, I bought five lights, five
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  lightings. I bought two microphones. So I taped myself eighteen hours every week
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  and I did it. I edited every three days. Yeah, well by
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  my everything, myself, they think, well they already know, they called
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  me everything. I was young, but I guess I'm so like from the
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  very beginning. Anyways, when I was six years old, I was already
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  starting making camera from the news. Okayer, So my parents think I'm an
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  I'm a you know, there's something wrong, but you know, dreams don't
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  come to but you're just gonna have to do it yourself. And then so
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  I said, okay, I'm gonna start doing my YouTube channel. I did
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  my own YouTube channel. It became very successful. But there's a lot of
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  not sleeping, not you know, I have to gamble my last money.
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  I have to. Sometimes I don't eat because I have to do all,
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  you know, because you don't sleep. Girl. It's like, yeah,
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  but but look, I'm gonna check out your YouTube. Google her. You'll
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  find it. Okay, Yeah, what about you both? Do you have
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  a passion in cooking too, or I do service on the side. Yes,
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  yes, that's how we get. But I'm more like a baker,
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  okay, like desserts and desserts and cakes and bread. I'm more on that
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  side. Okay, Okay, what about your Yeah, I have to taste
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  all the food. That's such a good job to have. And I love
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  to do social media stuff. I'm not solely building building the social media And
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  she's really if you have a background in that or no. No, I
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  just like I've been you know, on Facebook, Instagram for many years.
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  So hopefully, yeah, I get to do something that's actually being in an
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  entertainment business. That's my real goal. But I'm in the medical field and
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  financial services. But you know, I'm actually just living my dream. Now
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  you kind of get to do you have your your normal everyday life, and
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  then you have your like side, yes, my side us your passions,
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  right, your hobbies and stuff like that. That's awesome. And then with
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  dishes. I know you sent some pictures. Well we'll probably pull them up
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  in a little bit. What are some of your favorite dishes to make?
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  So I do call it fusion, and I cook exotic. So if you
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  ask me what the most I love is fried chicken, Okay, it's gonna
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  be so much, Okay, but I cook everything, Okay. What I
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  do is, I'm so good at marrying different kinds of nationality, culture,
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  culture, and then my food to marriage, to marry, just be married.
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  So that's what I'm very good at fusion. But when it comes exotic,
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  I do cook exotic vegetables, exotic meat, exotic fruits. So I
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  really love that like for example, like okay, I'm gonna give you one.
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  Okay, so like water snakes, right of course you're yeah, so
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  what I did to a water snake, I made it as a meatball,
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  but I put my macarel with it, so I married Macarell. Yeah,
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  if you find you fun and yeah, some people, you know, if
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  you look at it, it's it's the show is very genuine. You can
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  already tell you're gonna have fun because you know, I what I cook is
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  what you have inside your puntry. But of course you have to be in
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  America a little bit. Yeah, you know. But the food is really
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  literally is different from how it could. But it's super simple to make if
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  you want to. But if you talk about my career wise, I create
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  exotic food. You know, the the money wise, they can get really
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  really high, like you, super high. So but I do cook for
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  celebrities. I do cook for people, and some of them I can't say
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  it, Okay, I do contracts, so since I'm a private and yeah,
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  yeah, and people buy my recipes as well. So if if you
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  have a restaurant, or you want to open a restaurant, or if whatever
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  you want trying to share, you can share. Yeah, I can share,
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  like for example, Eddie Griffin, So okay, I can say that
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  because Edie Griffin and I didn't have the end, so I did. So
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  I can't say his project because it's the secret secret, but I did.
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  I did cook for him vegetarian and vegan recipes. Yeah. Yeah. Are
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  there any celebrities you're allowed to know? Most in my face book they tell
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  me like, why don't you post people? And but I can't really I
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  wish I can't, but you know, because of the you know you can't
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  post this? You can? Yeah, then of course as a privacy.
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  But mostly I cook for a lot in the consulate, for people in the
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  con I have a lot of yeah, clients that are celebrity, but they
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  don't just want to is it like you you have to cook it in their
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  homes? Yeah, okay, so to go there. Yeah. So let's
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  say you have a private party or anniversary or you only have fifty guests,
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  you know, so I yeah, like thinking of I also I also do
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  prep meals, so if you want to be healthy, I have three hundred
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  recipes for vegan, vegetarian, pascatarian, and key to dyet. And this
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  one is based on three hundred spices and herbs, and it's very helistic because
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  we only use a Himalaine salt, so it's very good for it for your
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  skin, for you know, like for example, I have clients that lost
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  twenty nine pounds in eight from the little pie. Yeah, we do have
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  cabs on the male plank. But good good healthy cood health. I mean,
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  all carbs are good. It's just you know, of course we're Filipino,
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  right, but plus you you're American guy. I love pasta. We
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  were talking about. Yeah, she's American girl is like part of our now
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  because we live here. But there are so when I do pasta, I
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  do sweet potato, so I make that as a pasta is very good.
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  I do pasta from carrots. I do pasta from a squash, so it's
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  a very it's a very engineered meal prep. I probably have to so my
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  mom has some health issues too, and it's so hard to you know,
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  find time to do it yourself. Even when you go out to eat,
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  you can't really enjoy what they make. This is it's very good. Like
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  what I said, the sauce is actually literally based on three hundred spices and
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  herbs and the sauce are fruits and vegetables. So even my pasta, like
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  I mean, I have my executives. I haven't managed there won't lie I
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  made you and you know it's not it's not the good posta. But I
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  tell you know, the sauce is super, super good. It is based
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  on butter, and it has eighteen spices and of and she pought it's so
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  good for you too, and it has a lot of pepper, so you
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  know, I mean healthy wise. Yeah, that was my I think we
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  can go back to that question. What's your favorite dishes that she's made so
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  far? So for me, she cooked she she married the pork and the
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  steak, the ribs she made semi yeah, we have that Chanel, I
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  have that clip. But it was so good. She added the spices lemon
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  grass and put lemon grass in there. The gobby the girl, Oh yeah,
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  so that was super good. I'm gonna have to what's your YouTube channel?
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  What about you? Oh, you're not going to believe this. I'm
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  not really a fan of gold. It's very she may try it. So
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  Actually she cooked for the famous athletes for pool billiards. So they were here
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  a few weeks ago and last Vega since she cooked for that, she didn't.
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  Okay, so she cooked a pata team and card camba before. I've
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  never tried or goat like before. So but this one, Oh my gosh,
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  it tastes like clam and beef in between. It tastes good. You
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  can't tell it's good because I can't tell. I've had dishes. But the
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  first time I tried goat, I could tell it. Yeah. I was
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  like, oh, this is not a I gotta try exotic. Yeah,
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  she she was even the week before that because I know I'm going to cook
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  for there was There were at least more than twenty celebrities from the pool because
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  they're competing for photo billionaires. Yeah, and Carlo Carlo Peato and he's one
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  of the special guests over there. He ate the car director twice and yeah,
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  him and his wife. But like what I said, you know,
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  I was surprised because my my director show, uh literally doesn't it goes Yeah.
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  Yeah, try, Oh my god, it's so good. Yeah,
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  oh my god, that's good. Thank you, Thank you both of you.
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  Wow, I'm excited to try. Probably as soon as I get home,
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  we'll try it and text year, Yeah, you have a fresh post.
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  They're waiting for you. I did want to ask you. Are you
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  allowed to talk a little bit about your show too? Yes, okay,
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  please tell us about it so on the television show, yeah, okay,
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  So yeah, I'm excited. Oh my gosh, it comes out next year,
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  right, so the commercial will come out next year. So what happened
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  was when my show got this covered. It's supposed to be only one stage,
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  okay, so that was the plan for But then they said, oh,
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  I think she has a chance to become national because they're looking for a
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  fusion exotic chef. But now the only difference of being a chef, which
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  is very very sad, ninety seven percent are male chef to be on television.
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  And to me, you know, I'm not against that. I actually
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  love it. But you know, seven to five percent are only females.
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  So this was never been done before where they had the first female chef.
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  But they think I have a chance, yeah, you know, to become
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  national. So I said, so when they told when they told me Chef
• 25:36
  your show got picked up, and I said, oh my gosh, you
• 25:38
  are they going to air it? Ouh? You know, of course I
• 25:41
  can't pronounce I can't say yeah, just for her social media. Yeah.
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  Actually a lot of people already, I would say five percent kind of know
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  about it because like like what I said, this was never been done before.
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  If it did, it was you know, a long time ago,
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  a long time ago. Yeah. But for me, I'm just happy,
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  you know, for for a first Filipino female chef, for all the or
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  for all the female chef out there. So like when I tell people,
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  hey, I'm almost fifty, you know, if my dreams can come through
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  it, you can make your dreams come through all age. Yeah, and
• 26:18
  Yesla and father guys will give you a good crew. Anyways, So anyways,
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  the plan was only just one state, and then they said, I
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  think she has a chance because there's already a food network, a discovery channel.
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  They want to put me there because I cook exotic and I'm a hunter.
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  So in my country, I used to be very poor, and there's
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  a couple of times we become homeless, and so how we eat what we
• 26:45
  have to hunt our food and that's what makes it great, right, so
• 26:48
  I said, especially when it rains, like there's eight of us, like
• 26:52
  attack, you know, like you were telling us an attack or hunt snakes,
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  you know, But mostly I love to hunt frogs, nails, potato,
• 27:07
  everything that's underneath. I'm just because it's easy to dig. Okay.
• 27:11
  So so when they saw the resume, but my executive manager already saw,
• 27:17
  she says, there's something about this girl because she's very loved. Everywhere we
• 27:21
  bring her, she's loved. But then the show was very you know,
• 27:25
  like, okay, give us one episode. So I gave them an episode
• 27:29
  where I kissed the frog. Yeah, so I gave them one of the
• 27:38
  episode and they said they have I think I have they have a shot.
• 27:41
  And so they gave it to the main main president and they said, oh
• 27:47
  my gosh, tell her, I think she has a shot to become national.
• 27:51
  And they gave it to the president and then they said, okay,
• 27:56
  let's put her to them, to the distributor. And when they so,
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  of course, the distributor is the one who's going to decide, you're right,
• 28:03
  that's still America. You know, like the same as Oprah Winfrey.
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  You know, everyone that became national, Michael Jordans, those are the people
• 28:11
  that became national, right, I mean, you could be a star,
• 28:15
  but to become national is a great opportunity to have. There And when they
• 28:21
  said, okay, what they saw it. They said, oh my gosh.
• 28:25
  The distributor almost cried because they said, she just kissed a death.
• 28:30
  They were not. Nobody's expecting that, nobody but my story though, it's
• 28:34
  the story that behind it really brought everything. Yeah. So and then they
• 28:40
  said, congratulationship Cocope Cruise. You will be the first, you know.
• 28:44
  So yeah, I like literally meet my mom and my dad, Like we
• 28:48
  broke down. You didn't even know what to say. But you know,
• 28:51
  they told they told us, just get ready. It's a lot of work.
• 28:53
  It is a lot of work. It is a lot of work.
• 28:56
  I mean, and I'm very happy because it became me and you're in the
• 29:02
  process of taping it. So we already did the pilot. Yeah so the
• 29:07
  yeah, so now we're gonna we're just gonna have to finish the set the
• 29:12
  final pilot. So the payload to the one that we're going to finish,
• 29:17
  that's the one that's gonna be out next year. Okay, it's only going
• 29:19
  to be a commercial coming soon the first you know, Philip, you know,
• 29:22
  stay tuned for the commercial. Yeah, we're gonna be all over.
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  It'll just all over every network, every network, Okay, it's uh,
• 29:32
  it's you'll be shack who I or it's gonna be actually yeah, I mean
• 29:36
  I want to say it, but yeah, we're gonna get a little surprise.
• 29:38
  And for everyone listening, please remember the name Cocoa Pek and we also
• 29:45
  like post some of her upcoming pop up live teking show if you follow her
• 29:51
  on Facebook under like Chef Cocoa Pea Cruise okay, and if you follow her,
• 29:56
  we post all her upcoming coming events and what an event? Yeah,
• 29:59
  that's my follow up question. Are you guys able to tell us about any
• 30:03
  events coming up maybe next month or that towards the sea end of this year
• 30:07
  or whatever. Yes, we have one coming up on April twenty seven.
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  It's going to be at C three Seafood Okay, Spring Mountain Okay, so
• 30:15
  there are two, so make sure it's the one in Spring Mountain. So
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  if you need to reserve tickets, please contact me Chilman Doza or find me
• 30:25
  on Facebook Chilman Doza or contact me at two four zero six hundred five two
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  three three. There we go. And that's is there a name for that
• 30:33
  or it's just going to be at They just have to make sure it's at
• 30:36
  C three. It's at SEED three, but they need to purchase the tickets
• 30:38
  ahead of time because we're almost sold. There are like three different segments,
• 30:42
  so we have a show at twelve pm, the next one is at three
• 30:47
  pm, and the next one is at six pm. But the six pm
• 30:49
  is almost sold okay, so we have very few tickets left, so please
• 30:55
  contact us and if you have any questions, please let us know. Yes,
• 30:59
  please, everybody. I hope to see you all there because we need
• 31:03
  to taste some of chef cochins tonight. I'm really excited. Any last words
• 31:08
  before we wrap this up. We're just thankful that we are here. Thank
• 31:15
  you for your family. You guys have me and my crew here. Thank
• 31:19
  you very much. We're honored. Thanks for this is amazing. Uh,
• 31:23
  this is so easy to talk to you guys. I love it so again.
• 31:30
  If you all want to attend Chef Coco's event, it's going to be
• 31:34
  April twenty seventh at C three, reach out to atticel Ati, Christine or
• 31:38
  Chef Coca herself. Please get your tickets before they sell out. I know
• 31:42
  it's already the end of March, so it's probably gonna sell out. Within
• 31:47
  the next week, so I hope. So again, thank you for tuning
• 31:53
  in to another episode. We will see you next Thursday at six pm.
• 31:59
  Again this ceremon your host signing off and my beautiful at this here Shain coo
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  coo, Anti Christine and anti Cell. Thank you. We'll see you next
• 32:07
  week. Thank you boy h