DARING DELIVERIES

As the difficulties imposed by the pandemic impact businesses big or small, HAPPY ONGPAUCO-TIU continues to serve what she does best—gastronomy served from the heart

- PIPO GONZALES

It comes as no surprise that the food sector would be one of the hardest-hit industries by the new age lifestyle imposed by the novel coronavirus. Dine-in activities have come to a full halt, with many businesses laying off people and an alarming increase in food wastage especially in the first few months of the quarantine. Happy Ongpauco-Tiu, who for decades has grown her culinary empire and expanded it to several avenues, has her thoughts deep on her family and wishing how the setting could have been more ideal. Her family and their health, after all, will always remain the top priority for her. “Honestly, I wish we could have gone to our place at the beach and stayed there for the entire lockdown. Not only is it safer as [there are] less COVID [cases] in the provinces, but the kids would have enjoyed being out in the sun and not cooped up at home,” she muses.