STOP PRESS, Now Under New Management

We are agents for Iremit - the safer and cheaper way to quickly send money back home to your loved ones.

Meet Imelda

Meet Imelda, known to her Taiwan and British friends as ’Tess’.

Imelda was born in Camarines Sur, Bicol and has one son currently studying in university in Naga City. In conjunction with her sister she ran a small restaurant in Bicol before going to Taiwan and being trained in electronic assembly.

After several years working as an OCW in Taiwan she returned to the Philippines only to be robbed of her hard-earned savings, rings, jewellery, cell phones etc by an armed gang who raided her home one dark night and held the family at gunpoint.

After losing everything she had worked for she showed true Philippine determination not to be beaten and again returned to Taiwan to start again.

There she met her future husband Antony Coe an Englishman and as her Chinese co-workers couldn’t pronounce ‘Imelda’ she used her cousins name Maritess, which the Chinese pronounced as Maritin and this was then shortened by her husband to be, to ‘Tess’ as his pet name for her to go with his family name of Coe. It was a couple of years before she realised he had named her after a UK supermarket!

During this second stay in Taiwan and by now married to Tony, Tess worked at a Chinese Buddhist restaurant every morning from 5 am to lunchtime to improve her Asian cooking skills and then simultaneously started a small refurbished computer business aimed at supplying her fellow OCW workers with cheap computers to send home to the Philippines, with husband Tony supplying technical support and converting the computers to operate with English language. The residents of Taichung soon got used to seeing Tess or Tony (or sometimes both together), on a small scooter fully loaded with up to 3 full sized desktop computers being delivered to the Philippine girls dormitory.

It wasn’t long before Tess’s love of cooking in general and more specifically the lack of authentic hot Philippine food led to the family home becoming a none-stop kitchen at weekends, supplying a small stall manned by husband Tony and catering to the taste-buds of the hundreds of Filipinos working in the many Taiwanese factories locally with genuine home cooked Filipino recipes.

Tony’s primary job has finally led to the family being relocated in Stockport and Tess (or Imelda if you prefer), is taking over adelessuperstore, previously run by Ann on Wellington road.

We wish Ann and her family all our best wishes in her new direction in life.

It is hoped to retain the best of what was previously offered by Ann in the shop whilst we want to also introduce some new and innovative new services and products from the Philippines and the S.E. Asia area in general.

We hope that you will pay us a visit and we look forward to not only supplying your favourite Philippine and Western Pacific Regional foodstuffs and ingredients but to welcome you as new friends.
Tess and Tony.

 

WE HAVE SOME GREAT IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE.
We are hoping to be able to offer cheap air-line tickets. We want to specialise in cheap flights from/to the UK and the Philippines or SE Asia and are talking to a major travel agent about opening a branch at our premises. Watch this space for further developments!
Coming soon! A coffee club.
Are you, like us, sometimes disappointed by the taste of your cup of coffee?
We are going to do something about it and you can join us if you like.
First a few facts about coffee.
Coffee only grows between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and guess where the Philippines are? Yes, - Philippine coffee is one of the best-kept secrets.
The first coffee shops in the UK were opened in 1650 and by 1740 coffee plants had been introduced into the Philippines at Batangas by Spanish Franciscan monks. A few years later and coffee beans from the Philippines were fetching 5 times the price of other Asian coffee beans. Making a cup of coffee with boiling water detracts from the coffees taste and smell. 85 deg C is the optimum temperature for making coffee so after the kettle has boiled wait a few minutes before poring it on your coffee. For something different a pinch of sea-salt added to a cup of coffee (don’t overdo it) can help bring out the coffee taste.
The effective ‘shelf life’ of green coffee beans is 2 years, of roasted coffee beans, 2 months, and ground coffee 2 weeks. Add to this fact that the roasting of the beans affects the bitterness of the coffee and its no wonder that every cup of coffee you make tastes different and sometimes disappoints.
So the plan is – we will install a coffee roaster and carefully roast small quantities of premium grade Philippine beans according to our coffee club members’ individual taste. Their preferred roasting profile will then be carefully recorded so that it can be repeated. An inexpensive coffee grinder from Argos or similar is then all that is needed to give you that real fresh flavour to make sure that the coffee you are drinking is exactly to your taste in smell and flavour each and every time.
If your interested in getting a regular supply of ‘proper’ coffee and would like to join us drop Imelda an email.

Open: Mon to Fri 8:45am to 7:45pm Saturday 9:00am to 7:45pm Sunday 10am to 7pm