1.5 Filipino immigrant from Iloilo and Bacolod City to Los Angeles. We have Chef Ria Dolly Barobas coming to you live here in Hawai’i. Chef Ria has family lineage of our Sakadas. For those who may unfamiliar of what and who are Sakadas, Sakadas were migrant workers in and from the Philippines specially for this segment, Sakadas who moved from Philippines to Hawai’i between the years of 1906-1946 to work as labor contract workers on the plantation fields. Ria’s grandfather who went back to the Philippines after the plantation petition his family to immigrate to Los Angeles, California which at that time, Ria was 6 years old.

For this podcast narrative and episode, we will talk about her Sakada lineage, emotional hardships, and what is like to run a Filipino owned business led by a Filipina chef.