Are we already doing this overseas with our embassies?

Philippine embassies located world wide are not sari-sari store where you can display broom stick(walis ting ting), coconut husk(lampaso), corn husk,barong tagalog, and patadyong. Their sole purpose is for political use and not promoting Philippines products.

That's pretty much the whole point of embassies. Every embassy will have a trade attaché.

soooooo bakya. sooooooo baduy.

I admire your being creative at times. Really!. Who could ever thought of making the Philippine Embassy whose main diplomatic mission, like any other embassy, is to protect its nationals while residing or working on the host country. Making it a cheap showroom to promote Philippine products like the 'bahag' 'sunggka' 'bagoong alamang' will make it a laughing-stock rather than a revered representation of the republic, and that my friend, is an idea, that only can be conceived from a brain of Deliverance. Hooray!

Yes, they can sell the ever famous and delicious lechon in our KSA embassy.

I have recently visited our embassy at Riyadh, and saw no such displays. Of course, it is entirely possible the displays could be in the upper levels, or elsewhere, where I felt, is out of bounds for us contract workers. We are restricted to a very small corner in the embassy, those of us Filipinos who are renewing passports or have some other documentation problem. To go and try to mingle in areas that are not meant for us humble OFWs are frowned upon by the embassy staff. It is as if we could be treated as psycho cases, playing "role deviants". I have this traumatic experience. I went out the boxed space, into the greater lobby, and asked for consular officers. The staff immediately ganged up on me, threatened me that "if this were the Philippines, I would be handed over to the NBI", and treated like a criminal. But your idea is nice. It was also the idea of Dr.Jose Rizal. To make the country known to the world. A noble idea, that one. I just wish that the Embassy would show this nobility by first showing affection for their countrymen, by making us welcome, instead of being treated like "the enemy".

It would be a better idea to suggest opening shops or kiosks in airports, or in shopping malls across the world? Maybe your idea comes from thinking that shops in the embassy would not have to pay rent or something? but if a shop in an embassy takes up space that is needed by the embassy, then the embassy may need to rent some more office space someplace else, so there is no saving of rent? There are lots of asian markets in the USA, that typically have just a couple filipino products, and are mostly ethnic chinese foods. There are lots of Thai food restaurants, a few Korean, lots of Chinese and Japanese restaurants, almost no filipino restaurants to be found. A filipino themed kiosk chain could be very popular and successful, especially if it featured coconut, mango, and banana shakes or smoothies (main export produce of Philippines).

i won't repeat what's already been said, Dick Butt and Spotter got it right. it's already being done through our attachés.

Hey, I would suggest if you don't know the number of embassies in the world at this moment. Why don't you stop eating your hamburger or chips. use your "LOPTOP" as you call it and do some simple searching on one of the various search engines. Since your such an expert on everything I'm surprised you don't know the exact number. Instead of asking us novices online. why don't you use your time more productively and make a phone call to your nearest government office or an email to the embassy and asked them. I know the answer to that. Because you know they wouldn't waste their time insulting someone just for the sake of answering a question. By the way when you insult a westerner. Make sure you can say it properly and not butcher our native language. We don't go to The Philippines and rubbish your native language or country. We respect and idolise people who like to help one another.