Maricar foregoes career as doctor?

MANILA, Philippines - So what does a classy model with degrees of Biology in Ateneo, and Medicine in UST do nowadays? She bakes choco-liquor cakes.

Maricar Reyes-Poon (photo) is now busy with her new passion — baking her unique choco-liquor cakes, counting among fans Kris Aquino.

“I think most people expected Maricar to end up as a full-time doctor. But she ended up as a versatile character-actress. Similarly, most people also expected me to end up as a chef in our family restaurant. But I ended up in music,” Maricar’s husband Richard Poon says.

Maricar admits, “Ever since our choco-liquor cakes were featured on TV, the orders came pouring in. They say our cakes taste very different from the rest because of the liquor component.”

As Maricar defies expectations of her being a doctor, Richard also continues to go against popular music trends by launching his seventh studio album The Crooner Sings Burt Bacharach.

The new album has 12 most popular Bacharach hits known to the Filipino audience: What The World Needs Now (Is Love Sweet Love), I Say A Little Prayer, Close To You, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, Always Something There to Remind Me and Walk on By, among others.

Richard shares, “My favorite Bacharach original is Arthur’s Theme (If you get caught between the moon and New York City…).”

It seems Team Poon is going against the flow of popular expectations — Richard setting aside his chef history to go “Sinatra”-crooning, and wife Maricar also setting aside her doctor duties to go baking her choco-liquor cakes. 

So far, success has been giving them both good company, even in the road less traveled.

(You can order Maricar’s choco-liquor cakes at 0917-8648282.)