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Manila Arts & Trade
3 reviews for Manila Arts & Trade
If you want to fool your friends and relatives into thinking that you actually went to the philippines (but didnt)
OR
went to the philippines and forgot to get something for your other 4 aunties living in a single one-bedroom apartment in anaheim (i have done the latter) then this place will be your salvation.
This store has filipino trinket goodness written all over it. The same dark wooden random figurines you'd find all over the markets and SM "kultura" sections of the Philippines. They have the water buffalo, the mini kalesa figurines, the penis/booby barrel people, as well as paintings of water buffaloes and dancers to little jeepneys...the works.
It also has some other things you could find as useful, like the tagalog-english or cebuano-english translation guides and dictionaries. They also carry the little filipino flag sticky-car-window ornaments thats FOBs put on their cars to make themsleves look...more filipino?
Also has stuff my mom likes like filipino diningware and table decorations and such. Like the giant wooden fork and spoons and the ubiquitous painting of "the last supper" to go over the dining room table.
BASICALLY, everything you need to become a beacon of filipino-ness right in one store.
The people who run the store are also really nice, they dont (evily) follow you around the store to make sure you dont break anything. And they're always ready to jump up and help you and start up some conversation. There was this younger guy clerk in here who we could chat it up with and talk about the joys and laugh about being filipino.
So if you desperately need to look filipino, give a filipino present to someone, are just in the area, or like the reviewer before me, need to walk off some excess pounds gained at one of the restaurants in the plaza, you should browse through this store.
nice shop to go to for native products. what pisses me off is that they sell a lot, or should i say, mostly fake shirts. i googled them and asked for Francis M clothing. they said they have it so i went just to find out they're all fakes. it's just disappointing that instead of helping or promoting Filipino products, we ourselves are competing by selling fakes. by the way, the price isn't that much different from the official distributors i found online. i just thought that i'll be able to save a little bit of money if i go with Manila Arts & Trade. i ended up buying from the official distributor instead which cost almost the same.
i also found out that Fil-Mart from Eagle Rock and Cerritos are selling the same fake shirts.
Support Filipino Products! Don't be a copycat, buy the originals!
Stumbling out of the Dim Sum restaurant next door in the depths of a full blown har gau binge, the partner in crime and I took a moment to steady ourselves on one of the public benches outside the restaurant.
As we were sitting there, belching and flatulating to our hearts' content, we couldn't help but notice some Philippine handicrafts sitting on shelves behind a display window.
Hefting our considerable bulks off of the sadly protesting bench, we eventually managed to shuffle our bloated carcasses out of the blazing sun and into the cool air conditioned interior of Manila Arts and Trade.
It was not a good idea at all considering the fact that the aisles were so chock-full of assorted hand crafted wooden carvings, sculptures, paintings, native fashions and packaged foods, that I couldn't help but knock one thing after another onto the floor as my body teeter tottered from side to side like an overgrown weeble wobble.
I have honestly NEVER seen as large an assortment of Philippine arts and crafts as is available at this store. The next biggest source of Philippine goods that I have ever seen was standing there, waddling side to side and knocking things into the aisles.
We spotted a beautiful landscape painting of a farm at dawn that we just could not leave behind, but the most memorable item for my partner in crime were the genuine articles of Filipino perversion. Namely her first encounter with the infamous "Barrel Man" and the Penis Ash Tray.
To my chagrin, we walked off without the Barrel Meister, nor did we take the Penishtray, but we did walk away with the beautiful painting.
well... not so much walk as much as toddle....
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