In 1980’s, Miss Remedios Cruz, daughter of Nanay is the person behind the taste of the famous Nanay’s Pancit Malabon. It started only as an experiment and became a family business. They sold their special Pancit Malabon in their house along Governor Pascual Avenue. It has been famous to everyone, even the foreigners, because of its unique taste. However, the family business needs to move to another location because they cannot have their business every time the high tide occurs in Malabon. The family decided to transfer the said trade to a safer place so that people can easily visit it. The restaurant is located now at 37 Governor Pascual Avenue, corner Santo Rosario Village, Malabon City, since 1984 up to the present.

Their raw ingredients in making Pancit Malabon are eggs, shrimps (pilled and cut into halves), petchay (cut into strips), celery (chopped), tinapa (made into small pieces), garlic, vetsin, pepper, chicharon, ulo ng baboy (chopped), fresh squeezed calamansi, and sauce made up of cornstarch and cassava. The said ingredients are personally made by Nanay’s Pancit Malabon for a sweet and fresh taste. Miss Bernandita Ignacio, the manager and grand daughter of Nanay, accepts all the possible comments and feedbacks of the customers to improve their products. Nanay’s Pancit Malabon sells the products at a very low price and maybe that’s another reason why it became well-known to everyone. The business became the source of income for the family.

Nanay’s Pancit Malabon has been featured in magazines and newspapers around the archipelago. It has also been attributed by one of the leading broadcasting company in the Philippines, ABS-CBN. Government officials and prominent artists like Mrs. Gelli De Belen-Rivera, Miss Janice De Belen, House Speaker Jose de Venecia and his wife, Manay Gina De Venecia, Bb. Pilipinas-Universe ’93 Charlene Gonzales-Muhlach, Hostess-Actress Amy Perez, President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo, Former First Lady Imelda Marcos and many more have visited the said restaurant. The key why Nanay’s Pancit Malabon stayed the industry for a long span of years of about 20 years is that they treat their competitors as brothers and sisters. They never compete against them because they all know that they have their own originality and distinctive tastes. The manager and owner Miss Bernandita Ignacio, learned to love their family business because after she finished her college degree, she inherited the business to her family and never dreamed of replacing it to another job or neither to go abroad.

They were encouraged by the committee to join the first ever Pancit Malabon Festival and comprise a booth. Fortunately the store manager, Miss Bernandita Ignacio, was eager to join the said occasion expecting that there will be a lot of people who’ll purchase their products. They were also invited to contribute and prepare to the largest Pancit Malabon uniting with other competitors. They told us that it was so much fun that they have different chefs who participated during the fest. Significantly, the business’ name NANAY’S PANCIT MALABON derived from the original meaning of “Nanay” because the owner told us that every time we are starving for foods, we always call our mothers to fulfill the emptiness we feel right in our tummy “Love your craft and you’ll enjoy the rest,” thought by the people behind the success of Nanay’s Pancit Malabon