(8) the famous Filipino desert halo-halo was introduced around the 1920s by Japanese confectioners in Binondo, the oldest Chinatown in the world. it was was based off of the popular Japanese shaved ice treat, “Kakigori.”

(9) the first Prime Minister of Spain with “Indian blood” is Marcelo Azzcaraga, the son of a Penisulares that owned a book shop in Escolta, Manila, and a Mestiza mother from Albay. Marcelo himself is a graduate of UST, the oldest university in Asia.