Lucia Cunanan


Lucia "Aling Lucing" Lagman Cunanan was a Filipino restaurateur credited in some quarters as having invented or re-invented sisig, a Kapampangan dish now popular all over the Philippines and among Filipino diasporas worldwide.

Career

Born as Lucia Lagman in Tarlac, she settled in Pampanga after her marriage to Victorino Cunanan. She established Aling Lucing's, a restaurant in Angeles, Pampanga in 1974. Her restaurant featured what has been said as a reinvented variant of sisig which soon became nationally famous. The popularity of her sisig had helped establish Angeles as the "Sisig Capital of the Philippines", and Cunanan herself was dubbed as the "Sisig Queen"

Death

Lucia Cunanan was found bludgeoned to death in her Angeles home with 10 stab wounds on April 16, 2008. She was 80 years old. Two days after her murder, local police filed parricide charges against her 85-year-old husband, Victorino Cunanan. He was believed to have killed her after she refused to give him money for his mistress.