Show Your Pinoy Pride by Owning These Filipino-Inspired Accessories

How do you show your Filipino pride? For some, it’s through supporting local brands. For others, it’s in speaking Filipino or choosing to build a life here despite opportunities abroad. But here’s another fun way to express it — by collecting miniature accessories inspired by the best of Filipino culture! (UPDATED)

Thanks to a local arts and crafts shop called , you can find unique items like mini sari-sari stores, food-inspired phone cases, and other tiny works of art that celebrate our local identity. (UPDATED)

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Miniature accessories you can get at

Owned by miniature artist Rhica Obien, has been specialising in Filipino-inspired mini accessories since 2014. The collection includes tiny replicas of local stores, market stalls, and everyday items like phone cases and keychains that creatively showcase the flavours of Filipino life.

Among those that have really been getting so much interest on ’s social media pages are phone cases sculpted and painted to look like Filipino street food and snacks. There are taho and nilaga-designed phone cases, to name a few. To add, there are cases with puto bumbong, kare-kare, and Filipino-style barbecue designs.

Aside from these, takes pride in halo-halo and pandesal keychains. The artist even shared her personal attachment to the pandesal design. “Pinapalaman ko sa mayonnaise na may itlog or peanut butter, and sometimes I dip it in sweet coffee,” she said in one post. “It’s my fave combo no matter how weird it may sound.”

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You can also see her intricately created mini sari-sari stores. For this, the artist also drew inspiration from a childhood memory. “When I was in elementary school, ako lagi pinagbabantay ni mama sa tindahan. Mamamalengke siya tuwing hapon at pag-uwi inya sasabihin niya sa akin, ‘sige kuha ka na ng gusto mong kainin’. Yun ‘yong pinaka-reward ko sa pag bantay.”

Even the products usually sold at these versions of the Filipino-style store have been reimagined by . For example, she also made branded shampoo sachets, soaps, powdered drinks, canned goods, junk food, and soft drinks.

The list of miniature accessories and ornaments goes on. The artist has also made reconceptualisations of a cake store, a flower shop, dining utensils, gadgets, viands, street food, coffee beverages, and even complete fast-food meals. She even made miniature BTS meal earrings!

Where to buy ’ miniature accessories

Interested in owning these charming Filipino miniatures? You can shop select pieces on Shopee or message the artist directly through her official social media pages for custom orders.

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