One Long Drive to Calabarzon --- My First Time @ Quezon

Located East of Metro Manila is the province of Quezon. This is also where Agusto"Ugu" Bigyan, a ceramic artist, put up his workshop and opened for visitors to admire.  

It was a really long drive to Quezon but was well worth it. His house exhibited a lot of his works that were nice to take pictures of and pose at.

 

This is actually one of the few pictures we have together in a photo and his kuya was very nice to have taken it.

As a kid, I've always been scared of big jars. Thanks to Ugu's work, I realized I still am! =)

We found a really heavy and delicate face mask and decided to take a few shots with it. It was put back the way it was ofcourse.. Hopefully all it's visitors would give the same treatment.

 For the finale', our lunch: (...served with the freshest ingredients)

1.) Ugu's specialty: Langka

 

2.) Giant clam soup

3.) Inihaw na Liempo (My Favorite!)

4.) Paco Salad

5.) Calamares

6.) Sweet and Sour Fish

Overall, the food wasn't spectacular. It was good but it didn't really blow me away. I cannot say the same for his workshop though, because I loved every corner, and every artifact in it! One last head's up. Ugu's workshop isn't really easy to find. Drive slow and keep your eyes open when you get to Tiaong to save time and gasoline.