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I'm having this project of listing down the specialties of each and every town in the Philippines. I know it's a crazy idea, but would you help me? Purpose: To list down our unique livelihoods, gifts, strengths, wealth, and little sources of ethnic pride and identity. Each product, if packaged and promoted right nationwide and worldwide, could easily solve a lot of our economic, and ethnic pride, problems.
ILOCOS NORTE: - church tours, tobacco, garlic, basi, sukang Iluko, basi, dinakdakan, tupig, bibingka, patupat, linapet, bagnet, garlic longanisa, papaitan, poque-poque (grilled eggplant salad/omelet), dinardaraan or crispy dinuguan, sinanglaw, dinengdeng, dinakdakan, sinabsarabasab/insarabasab (Ilocano sisig), gammet/seaweed soup, beef sashimi, dinuguan Ilocano, boogie (?), ukilas, bagabagis, imbaliktad, lumo, warik-warik, jumping salad, fried fire ants (hantik? hantik eggs?), inabraw (?); dudol (maja blanca Ilocana); niniogan (traditional All Saints Day rice and coconut dish)
Adams;
Bacarra - Farmer's Festival, Bacarra Church and Bell Tower Ruins
Badoc - lighthouse tour
Bangui - cliff horseback riding; Bangui windmills, Kapurpurawan Beach rock formation tour
Banna (Espiritu)
Batac - Marcos mausoleum and Museum tour; historical figures tour (Artemio Ricarte, Gregorio Aglipay, et al.); Batac empanada, Batac miki,
Burgos - gamet/seaweeds
Carasi
Currimao - Tambora Festival, beach resorts; La Paz sand dunes
Dingras
Dumalneg
Laoag City (Capital) - Ilocos Norte Lantern Festival; Ragrag-o Festival, Pamulinawen Festival; Laoag longanisa; Laoag canton; St. William's Cathedral and Sinking Bell Tower, Malacanang Ti Amianan; Fort Ilocandia
Marcos
Nueva Era
Pagudpud - white sand beach resorts
Paoay - tour of earthquake-baroque church and tower; chichacorn; Guling Guling (a la Mardi Gras) Festival; inabel; Pinakbet Pizza Herencia; dudol/dodol (dessert made of ground rice flour cooked in sugarcane juice); impaltao (dessert made of ground rice flour topped with sugarcane juice)
Pasuquin - soft and hard biscocho
Piddig
Pinili
San Nicolas - Damili Festival, Sunflower Organization Festival, damili pottery, basi, burnay, La Preciosa moist carrot cake
Sarrat - binakol weaves
Solsona - Gameng (Treasure) Festival
Vintar - rice; garlic pickles and other garlic products; dinemdem - like dinengdeng of marunggay pods (malunggay)
ILOCOS SUR:
Alilem
Banayoyo
Bantay
Burgos
Cabugao
Candon City - calamay
Caoayan - baggong na ipon
Cervantes
Galimuyod
Gregorio Del Pilar (Concepcion)
Lidlidda
Magsingal
Nagbukel
Narvacan
Quirino (Angkaki)
Salcedo (Baugen)
San Emilio
San Esteban
San Ildefonso
San Juan (Lapog)
San Vicente
Santa
Santa Catalina
Santa Cruz
Santa Lucia
Santa Maria
Santiago
Santo Domingo
Sigay
Sinait
Sugpon
Suyo
Tagudin - bottled or canned calamansi juice and calamansi products
Vigan City (Capital) - terra cotta pots, Vigan bahay na bato archtecture, Vigan cuisine (Vigan empanada, pippian, dinardaraan (Ilocono version of pork blood stew), anakan, kalderetan kalding, grilled Ilocano longganisa, poqui-poqui, ar-arusip seaweed salad, utong and katuray salad, pnacit musico, grilled malaga, ipon, pinapaitan (goat bile?), sinanglaw, inkalti, inartem nga kamas, pinakbet, okay, ensaladang rabong, bagnet (with tomatoes, lasona, and bagoong), dinaldalem, dinengdeng, roast chicken with karimbuaya, bibingka Vigan, patupat, miki, dinoydoy (squash and ampalaya sauteed in onions and broth), Ilocano pipyan
LA UNION: - dried espada fish
Agoo
Aringay
Bacnotan - Arosip Eco Trail 4×4 rides and dirt bikes; River Farm Seafood Restaurant, the only floating restaurant in La Union; Centennial Tree - the country’s biggest tree with the most expansive branches located in Carcaman Elementary School
Bagulin
Balaoan - snorkeling/coral reef exploration
Bangar
Bauang
Burgos - Bolikewkew Rice Terraces
Caba
Luna - Our Lady of Namacpacan, St. Catherine Parish; Pebble Beach - brightly colored pebbles of all shapes and hues; Baluarte watchtower
Naguilian - cliff diving at Tuddingan Falls
Puo - camping in Tappuakan River
Rosario - S.O.U.L. Café
San Fernando City (Capital) - biking in Capitol Hill; La Union Botanical Garden; Pindangan Church ruins; Capitol Hill and Freedom Park/Heroes Hill; Thunderbird Resorts Poro Point; Ma-Cho Temple - 1975 Taoist temple named after the Chinese deity Ma-Cho, believed to be the counterpart of the Virgin of Caysasay in Taal, Batangas; La Union Botanical Garden and Science Centrum; Nuval’s jumping salad, a bowl of live shrimps you drizzle with calamansi; Halo-Halo de Iloko’s pinakbet, kamote tops in bagoong sauce, Ilocano express (bagnet in coconut milk and chili a la Bicol express), pork binagoongan, dinakdakan ("minced pork cheeks, ears and brains cooked like sisig with soy sauce dip"); Midway Grill’s pulpog, an Ilocano dish made of pig’s brain, bits of pork and chopped pepper
San Gabriel - Lon-Oy Springs
San Juan - Rimat Ti Amianan surfing festival; Billabong surf school, San Juan Surf Resort;
Santo Tomas
Santol - Balay Anito Falls
Sudipen
Tubao
(Reference: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/why-la-union-is-becoming-an-international-favorite-075145495.html)
PANGASINAN:
Agno
Aguilar
Alaminos City
Alcala
Anda
Asingan
Balungao
Bani
Basista
Bautista
Bayambang - freshwater fish; fermented fish (buro, mulantong); Indian mangoes; grilled white glutinous corn;obscure but interesting rootcrops of tuge, sago, and apuler/apulid; binuburan - sweet fermented rice dessert; pigar-pigar (soy-marinated beef strips stir-fried in onion); Malangsi Festival
Binalonan - unas dried fish
BinmaleyBolinao - Patar Beach, binungey (glutinous rice cooked in coconut and bamboo stem)
Bugallon
Burgos
Calasiao - glutinous putolets; bocayo; pilgrimage to Senor Divino Tesoro (Divine Treasure) Shrine; Sts. Peter and Paul Parish Church (UNESCO World Heritage Site) tour; Bella's Calasiao Puto (traditionally ground, in ube, pandan, strawberry and mango flavors): Panaderia Antonio Bakery and Restaurant (Plato Wraps, etc.)
Dagupan City - Bonuan bangus, Bangus Festival; Janas Bakeshop; Pedrito's Bakeshop; boneless bangus (as tinapa, daing and lumpia); Dawel River Cruise; Silverio's Restaurant; Eats by Ella butterfly and rosette pastries, pastillas de leche and pecan tarts; Rebeecca's Cassava Cake and Bake House (glutinous rice cakes, ensaimada, polvoron, mamon, hopia, Spanish bread, polvoron cookies, egg pies, cupcakes)
Dasol
Infanta
Labrador
Laoac - miniature bakya (wooden clogs); Laoac Dairy Farm's Sunfresh Whole Milk
Lingayen - bagoong, salt (why not make this into gourmet salt?), bocayo, tuyo, pinakbet; Je's Bagoong (ginisang alamang, boneless bagoong, bagoong dilis, bagoong padas, patis); Provincial Capitol Complex tour (including Capitol Building, Asna sculpture, Sison Auditorium, Bahay ni Urduja, and view of Lingayen Gulf; Pistay Dayat (Sea Festival)
Mabini
Malasiqui
Manaoag - mango pickles; Our Lady of Rosary Shrine pilgrimage
Mangaldan - Romana's peanut brittle
Mangatarem
Mapandan
Natividad
Pozorrubio
Rosales - tupig; Bistro Garitoni (Boodle Spread, One-Pound Burger, etc.)
San Carlos City - coconut midrib handicrafts
San Fabian
San Jacinto
San Manuel
San Nicolas
San Quintin
Santa Barbara
Santa Maria
Santo Tomas
Sison
Sual
Tayug
Umingan
Urbiztondo
Urdaneta City - Matutina's Restaurant (Buttered Alimango, Sinigang na Malaga/Samaral, Crispy Hipon, milkfish, catfish, and oyster dishes); Cusinero Garden and Restaurant (eclectic offerings)
Villasis - Minuyungan Butterfly Sanctuary
BATANES: - Arius berry products, church/architectural.cultural tour, Calayan rail bird sighting, Valugan Beach, Dakay House, falowa Ivatan boat, Rakuh a Payaman/Marlboro Country; payi (lobster), tatus (coconut crab), and dibang; fishes: arayu, dorado/doradu, mahi-mahi; lataven a amung (kinilaw), a perfect pair for beer; rootcrops: pinasu a wakay, dukay, gabi, and amay (mashed kamote and taro); vunes (dried gabi); uved (pork balls with flying fish and banana trunk); ‘dibang‘ or flying fish); Chadpidan Beach, Sabtang Beaches, and Nakabuang Beach; Fundacion de Pacita Abad; Loran Station, a former US facility during the war; Honesty Coffee Shop; vakul grass raingear; supas - Ivatan yellow rice; uvud "- Ivatan viand made of pith of banana from the part that is buried, scraped then mixed well with pork or fish wrapped in leaves, then steamed"; luñis - "Ivatan pork adobo served on leaves of the breadfruit tree (tipuho) called kabaya"
Basco - Naidi Hills, Basco lighthouse, Mt. Iraya trek
Itbayat
Ivana - vahay stone huts
Mahatao - vahay stone huts
Sabtang
Uyugan
Source: http://gregmelep.blogspot.com/2012/06/top-10-things-to-do-when-in-batanes.html
CAGAYAN: - Cagayan's garlicky longganisa
Abulug
Alcala - Teano carabao milk candy
Allacapan
Amulung
Aparri
Baggao
Ballesteros
Buguey
Calayan
Camalaniugan
Claveria
Enrile
Gattaran
Gonzaga
Iguig
Lal-Lo - tinubong (glutinous rice in bamboo stem)
Lasam
Pamplona
Penablanca
Piat
Rizal
Sanchez-Mira
Santa Ana
Santa Praxedes
Santa Teresita
Santo Nino (Faire)
Solana
Tuao
Tuguegarao City - pancit batil pattung, pancit cabagan
ISABELA: pancit cabagan; Isabela oriole sightings
Alicia
Angadanan
Aurora
Benito Soliven
Burgos
Cabagan - binallay ricecake
Cabatuan
Cauayan City
City Of Santiago - Pattaradday Festival
Cordon
Delfin Albano (Magsaysay)
Dinapigue
Divilican
Echague
Gamu
Ilagan
Jones
Luna
Maconacon
Mallig
Naguilan
Palanan
Quezon
Quirino
Ramon
Reina Mercedes
Roxas
San Agustin
San Guillermo
San Isidro
San Manuel
San Mariano
San Mateo
San Pablo - binallay ricecake
Santa Maria
Santo Tomas
Tumauini
NUEVA VIZCAYA: rarad - "rice cake wrapped in alaw leaves, steamed and then sweetened with latik (cooked coconut milk)";
Ambaguio
Aritao - onion, including shallot (lasona); upland fruits and vegetables like potatoes, celeries, cabbage, Chinese lettuce, carrots, sayote, baguio beans, broccoli
Bagabag - swine, poultry, cattle
Bambang - upland fruits and vegetables like potatoes, celeries, cabbage, Chinese lettuce, carrots, sayote, baguio beans, broccoli
Bayombong - dalanghita (orange)
Diadi
Dupax Del Norte
Dupax Del Sur
Kayapa
Quezon
Santa Fe
Solano - swine, poultry, cattle
Villaverde
Additional: Kasibu - underground river in caves with stalactites and stalagmites; gold and copper mining
QUIRINO:
Aglipay
Cabarroguis (Capital)
Diffun
Maddela
Nagtipunan
Saguday
BATAAN: - tinapang bangus, Bataan Matamis cigarettes, Mabuhay sarsaparilla softdrink, crabs, alimango
Abucay - grilled tahong (mussels)
Bagac
Balanga City - smoked bangus?, whitish non-salty tuyo, smoked tilapia
Dinalupihan
Hermosa - balut, quail eggs,
Limay - World War II history, cashew nuts, cahew and duhat wines,
Mariveles
Morong - exotic meats
Orani - fresh sea foods including tiger prawns, crabs and shrimps, including "suwahe" for jumping salad
Orion - tuyo, tinapa
Pilar
Samal - araro cookies, talaba,
BULACAN: - Lapid's chicarong baboy, pastillas de leche; ensaymada; sangkutsa, bringhe, mambisa lunch box, sinigang with usbong (young tamarind leaves), pinasingawan (steamed fish with alagao), burong ampalaya/ubod/raw mango, carabao milk pastillas with dayap, pastillas del carmel/tostado, leche flan del mar/with gulaman, Hyas ng Bulacan Museum tour, Shirley Halili-Cruz dancers, putong pulo, balagtasan, buntal hats, silk-weaving, embroidery, cigar cases, sillas de becujos or cane chairs; halabos na talangkang buhay, “best eaten with freshly cooked Milagrosa rice and calamansi-patis dip”; bibingka pinipig
Angat
Balagtas (Bigaa)
Baliuag - puni leaf-folding using buli leaves, pastillas wrapper art, capiz parol, bone inlay etched furniture, Baliwag lechon manok, Baliwag chicaron, pan de Baliwag, assorted sweets, buntal hat
Bocaue - firecrackers/pyrotechnics, litsong Bocaue
Bulacan - gurgurya - Mila Enriquez's cookie that takes its name from coral and uses kalumata leaves to impart a flavor of licorice to the sugar coating; hamon Bulakenya - Mila Enriquez's ham recipe
Bustos
Calumpit
Dona Remedios Trinidad
Guiguinto
Hagonoy
Malolos - singkaban bamboo craft, Malolos ensaimada, inipit, torta Bulakena, yema, hopia, tarts, brownies, meringue, biscocho, , Pambansang.com graphic shirts with pop-art prints, Citangs Eatery kakanin and merienda; Barasoain Church tour
Marilao - putong puti and kutsinta; Popular Puto ricecakes, TJN Pasalubong bottled sweets and boxed pastries; Arnel Papa jewelry; pancit Marilao
Meycauayan - cowhide tanning, leather, gold jewelry
Norzagaray
Obando - fertility ritual
Pandi - embroidery
Paombong - sukang Paombong
Plaridel
Polo - chicken kinulob: “Native chicken is slow-cooked in the traditional palayok with pork stomach, vegetables and aromatics. It comes with rich liver and calamansi sauce.”
Pulilan
San IldefonsoSan Jose Del Monte City
San Miguel - - pastillas de San Miguel
San Rafael
Santa Maria - Obet’s chicharon: "thick, crunchy, salty pork rind the size of a toddler’s fist, packed with what they call 'full back fat.'”
NUEVA ECIJA: - burong talangka?
Aliaga - Taong Putik festival
Bongabon
Cabanatuan City - carabao milk pastillas, longanisa
Cabiao
Caranglan
Cuyapo
Gabaldon (Bitulok & Sarabani)
Gapan City - tsinelas
General Mamerto Natividad
General Tinio (Payapa)
Guimba
Jaen
Laur
Licab
Llanera
Lupao
Muñoz City
Nampicuan
Palayan City
Pantabangan
Penaranda
Quezon
Rizal
San Antonio
San Isidro
San Jose City
San Leonardo
Santa Rosa
Santo Domingo
Talavera - carabao milk-based pastillas de leche
Talugtug
Zaragoza
PAMPANGA: dulce prenda, panara, masa podrida, murcon, plantanilla, camaru, tidtad babi (Pampango version of pork blood stew), biringhe, duman, etc.; "inihaw na hito, burong hipon and mustasa, which is eaten as a set by covering bits of the fish with the slightly salty burong hipon and wrapping it with the bitter mustard leaves, a great combination of salty and bitter"; sweets/desserts like food for the gods, cashew tart/boat, petit fours
Apalit
Arayat - beruya http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2009/08/a-philippines-outtake.html
Bacolor
Candaba - birdwatching, watermelon
Floridablanca
Guagua - Razon's cuisine (pancit luglug, chicken-pork mechado/asado, white halo-halo, etc.), especially the original Razon’s halo-halo (a shaved ice dessert)
Lubao
Mabalacat - Pampanga's Best tocino, tapa, Pampango longanisa, maja blanca, Pampanga parol/Christmas lanterns, yema, polvoron, San Nicolas cookies, sisig; Kamikaze East Airfield, Mabalacat Rock Carving Enterprise, Caragan Aeta Festival Mabalacat
Macabebe
Magalang - Abe's Farm
Masantol - bottled aligue ng talangka, burong talangka dipped in kalamansi
Mexico - Kapampangan Culinary Museum, Borromeo's family's collection of antique kitchenware; Lillian Borromeo's San Nicolas cookies (panecillos de San Nicolas)- originally 1600s Chinese cookies made of butter, sugar, coconut milk, pork lard, cornstarch, uraro/arrowroot flour, baking powder and dayap rind; Lillian Borromeo's dulce prenda cookies - originally 1600s Chinese cookies filled with minatamis na kondol or sweetened wintermelon
Minalin
Porac - 1930s-style ensaimadas from Homemade Treasures; Puning Hotsprings adventure
San Fernando City - Everybody’s Café tapang kalabaw, slow-cooked morcon with quezo de bola and chorizo, adobong kamaro or mole crickets, and kilayin, pork meat and liver braised in vinegar à la adobo
San Luis
San Simon
Santa Ana
Santa Rita - duman, Duman Festival; Alviz Farm Pampango lunch; Ocampo's turrones de casoy, flaky sansrival and pastillas; Mercado's barquillos, barquiron, or polvoron-filled barquillos, and patku, "local crepe filled with ground young coconut and wrapped in banana leaves"
Santo Tomas
Sasmoan (Sexmoan)
More (can't categorize which town): Cabigting’s white halo-halo; Mely’s al fresco grill serving sisig and chicken-tail barbecue
TARLAC: fried or grilled catfish/hito with balo-balo/fermented shrimp paste/buro and mustasa; Belenismo Festival; Coconut Grill?
Anao
Bamban - tour of Our Lady of Lourdes grotto; Japanese-era tunnels and caves
Camiling - tour of Carlos P. Romulo ancestral home and Carlos P. Romulo Memorial Library, tour of Leonor Rivera ancestral home
Capas - tour of Capas National Shrine, Capas Death March Monument at Camp O'Donnell, Azaya Garden Resort dining (pancit buko, bagnet salad, etc.); Mt. Pinatubo at Sta. Juliana
Concepcion - Ninoy Aquino Museum tour, Aquino ancestral house tour; Voice of America radio transmitting facility
Gerona - Isdaan Restaurant
La Paz - tour of Our Lady of Peace church
Mayantoc - kayaking and rafting at Nambalan Rapids
Paniqui - St. Rose de Lima Cathedral; - bagis kambing (dry version of papaitan), kinulob (pochero-like mixed-meat dish), pastel de pollo, Pampango pakbet (with squash), kaldereta (tamer version), fried catfish, stewed malunggay pods, papaet leaves, lumpiang buko, binuburan, crispy ukoy, mudfish with balaw-balaw, boboto (tamales), salad of tomatoes, onions, mangoes, hair-like seaweed and shrimp paste, candied singkamas, guinataang aguro (cone-shaped shells), sardines and chili sauce, kesong puti, Sida Sida Festival
Pura
Ramos
San Clemente - Tumangguyob Falls; Ubod Falls
San Jose - cycling and Olympic-size swimming at Tarlac Recreational Park, tour of Holy Cross Chapel and Monasterio de Tarlac at Mount of Resurrection, Lubigan Eco-Tourism Park; Bulsa River watersports
San Manuel
San Miguel - Plaza Luisita Center; Museo de Fuerzas Armadas
Santa Ignacia
Tarlac City - San Sebastian Cathedral tour, Wood Inspirations bamboo decors/souvenirs/home accents, Guby's chicaron; Lutong Bahay Buffet; Jelexie Bakeshop goodies; Ikabod Pagkaing Pinoy casual-dining restaurant; Kart City kart park; Maria Christina Park; Museo de Tarlac; Diwa ng Tarlak
Victoria
Reference: http://tarlacprovince.com/
ZAMBALES: - Mt. Pinatubo hiking/adventure; mud spa; beaches; Ramon Magsaysay historical tour; Anawangin beach camping, Capones Island beach
Botolan
Cabangan
Candelaria
Castillejos
Iba (Capital) - Dinamulag Festival; giant sweet mangoes
Masinloc
Olongapo City - The Coffeeshop Restaurant’s hard-shell jumbo tacos, Ralli’s Grill and Bar’s Ro’s Special (grilled chicken breast in white sauce topped with cheese), Wimpy’s comfort food, Mulawin pan de sal, Mansion Bakery and King’s Bakeshop breads, Olongapo City Museum, Ulo ng Gapo marker, Kalaklan Lighthouse, Marikit Park, Volunteers’ Shrine
Palauig
San Antonio - Pundaquit Music and Arts Festival, Casa San Miguel, Museum of Community Heritage
San Felipe
San Marcelino
San Narciso
Santa Cruz
Subic - Subic rainforest for monkey-, bird- and giant fruit bat-watching, Treetop Adventure (ziplines, canopy rides, Aeta jungle survival guide, etc.), Zoobic Zafari, White Rock Beach Resort, Subic Freeport multisports activities, Ocean View Beach Resort, Subic Bay Yacht Club sunset cruise, the Spanish Gate at The Arsenal naval station
BATANGAS: - kapeng barako; tawilis (a freshwater sardine) with a mountain of rice in Rose and Grace (?); caldereta Batangas (uses pickles in place of tomato sauce); tuba vinegar
Agoncillo
Alitagtag
Balayan - bagoong Balayan
Balete
Batangas City - suman yakap dipped in kalamay-hati, dinuguan a la batangas
Bauan
Calaca
Calatagan
Cuenca
Ibaan
Laurel
Lemery - balisong; Our Lady of Caysasay shrine tour; bagoong Lemery; walis tingting from kaong
Lian
Lipa City - lomi
Lobo
Mabini
Malvar
Mataas Na Kahoy
Nasugbu
Padre Garcia
San Jose
San Juan
San Luis
San Nicolas
San Pascual
Santa Teresita
Santo Tomas
Taal - bahay na bato tour, church tour, historic shrine tour
Talisay
Tanauan City
Taysan
Tingloy
Tuy
CAVITE: civet cat coffee (kape alamid); tahong; owner-type jeep; history tour; church architectural tour; kaong vinegar; pancit pusit ("sotanghon noodles made black with squid ink garnished with chicharon (pork crackling) and sliced kamias (bilimbi) on totop"); quesillo (kesong puti); Cavite tamales; bitchokoy, bibingkoy; Dizon Bakery kenkoy cookie, bacalao (dried salted cod); haleyang sampalok (tamarind jam); Asiong's restaurant/Sonny Lua's chicken pastel; fish sinigang sa miso ("the mustard leaves used was fermented (buro) instead of fresh"); Ellen and Boy Robinson’s tamales ("full of peanuts and egg on top of the steamed rice base"); fermented fish roe (fish eggs eaten with the Cavite fish sauce called patis labo partly because of its intense flavor and its dark coloring); biyuko variety mango ("which you can put whole into your mouth, scraping out the flesh with your teeth so that what remains is the flat seed"; different from the supsupin, which is as small but has a more rounded seed"); sweetened siniguelas (Spondias purpurea); dried sweetened tomatoes; Baby Pat’s Bread and Pastries ensaymada (e.g. ube, Nutella, speculoos); Beruete’s Bakery's crisp pan de sal [From: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/91787/sample-cavite-delicacies-from-tamales-to-pancit-pusit#sthash.46Y6guov.dpuf]
Alfonso - firewalking (thanksgiving tradition)
Amadeo - coffee varieties
Bacoor - Digman halo-halo
Carmona
Cavite City - owner-type jeeps; Fort San Felipe tour
Dasmarinas
Gen. Mariano Alvarez
General Emilio Aguinaldo
General Trias
Imus
Indang
Kawit - Aguinaldo Shrine tour, Josephine Restaurant (Mutya ng Cavite, asadong alimango, pancit seafood, etc.), Cafe Amadeo coffee
Magallanes
Maragondon - heritage church tour
Mendez (Mendez-Nunez)
Naic
Noveleta - anting-anting/amulet/agimat/bertud making
Rosario - Tejeros Convention Center tour
Silang - Ilog ni Maria Honeybee farm and honeybee products
Tagaytay City - senorita bananas, dwarf pineapple, Taal Vista Hotel volcano-viewing, espasol, horseback-riding, cutflowers, ampalaya achara
Tanza
Ternate
Trece Martires City (Capital)
LAGUNA: ensaladang pako (fresh fern leaves) with kesong puti (carabao cheese); tawilis (a freshwater sardine) with a mountain of rice in Rose and Grace
Alaminos
Bay
Binan - townhouses
Cabuyao - cassava cake
Calamba City - Rizal shrine tour, Pansol hotsprings, Mt. Makiling mountaineering and birwatching
Calauan
Cavinti - Lake Caliraya tour, lakeside resorts, Japanese Garden (memorial park) tour
Famy - mountain-climbing
Kalayaan - Exotik Restaurant tour, frog-head coin purses and frog-feet keychains
Liliw - abaca-fiber slippers and leather footwear, uraro, turones de kasuy, espasol, macapuno candy
Los Banos - original buko pie, including Letty's and Sheila's; UP Los Banos tour, espasol, uraro, pastillas, lambanog, cashew nougat, bibingkang itlog
Luisiana - pandan
Lumban - barong
Mabitac
Magdalena - St. Mary Magdalene church and Emilio Jacinto shrine tour
Majayjay - St. Gregory Parish Church, Emilio Jacinto memorial tour, tinutong laing, pako salad
Nagcarlan - shingaling; underground cemetery tour
Paete - taka (papier-mâché horse), wood carvings, bakya, ice-carving, food-carving, movie props making/film production design work products, minani
Pagsanjan - lanzones, rambutan, tikoy, kalamay, puto bumbong, shooting the rapids (Pagsanjan falls) tour; Bangkero Festival
Pakil - Virgin of Turumba church shrine tour; whittling quetana wood
Pangil
Pila - church and heritage houses tour
Rizal
San Pablo City - Colette's buko pie, El Mare special buko pie and chicken pie, seven lakes city tour, river shrimps in coconut milk, kilawing labanos, kulawo, sinukmani; food tour at Patis Tito Garden Café consisting of longganisa San Pablo with sautéed onions and tomatoes, chicken and pork adobo with buko meat, crispy dilis salad; black tilapia from Kalibato Lake; pesang dalag
San Pedro
Santa Cruz - kesong puti; Kesong Puti Festival
Santa Maria
Santa Rosa - Enchanted Kingdom fun rides; sinukmani and kilawing puso ng saging, guinataang yapyap, matse/mache (rice flour balls), Bok's flavored ice cream, atole (corn maja blanca)
Siniloan
Victoria - kinulob na itik
QUEZON: - copra?, lambanog; Baler, Aurora history tour and surfing
Agdangan
Alabat
Atimonan
Buenavista
Burdeos
Calauag
Candelaria
Catanauan
Dolores - moutaineering, religious-cultural tour; Kinabuhayan Cafe, sapinit or wild raspberry
General Luna
General Nakar
Guinayangan
Gumaca
Infanta
Jomalig
Lopez
Lucban - Lucban longanisa, pancit habhab, rice wafer; hardinera meat loaf
Lucena City - broas, apas,
Macalelon
Mauban
Mulanay
Padre Burgos
Pagbilao
Panukulan
Patnanungan
Perez
Pitogo
Plaridel
Polillo
Quezon
Real
Sampaloc
San Andres
San Antonio
San Francisco (Aurora)
San Narciso
Sariaya - - food tour at Villa Sariaya consisting of beef minanok (beef tinola using blanched mustard leaves instead of pepper leaves); lengua estofado; bulanglang na ubod with tomato liver sauce; pinais na alimasag (crab wrapped in a leaf called kamamba (found only in the foothills of Mt. Banahaw) then wrapped again in banana leaf and cooked in buko water); chicken pastel; pinagong, pan de Aleman and other pastries
Tagkawayan
Tayabas - Baler surfing; food tour at Memphis Garden Café at Graceland Estates and Country Club: Haing Quezon consisting of sinaing na tulingan in dried kalamyas; longganisang Lucban; bonete bread; pinagong bread; budin (cassava pudding made creamier with the use of Star margarine and coconut milk); kalamay; minalutong kanin (rice topped with sweet potato then wrapped in banana leaves); sinigang (with coconut water and tamarind) na hipon sa mura, hardinera at Doña Aurora; adobong baka sa gata at papaya; pansit na malunggay; lumpiang gulay na sariwa; kilawing bangus; Delino Chicken (a cross between tinola and sinigang, the chicken stuffed with spices, herbs, glutinous rice and sausage then submerged in hot broth; tagayan drinking ritual
Tiaong - food tour at Ugu Bigyan’s Pottery Garden consisting of kulawo (banana heart (or eggplant) with coconut milk dressing, with grated coconut cooked in charcoal, adding a unique smoky flavour, then topped with Ternate flower); pako salad (blanched fiddlehead ferns tossed with finely chopped red onions, then topped with a few slices of salted duck eggs, with mixed greens and fruits drizzled with kalamansi juice, fish sauce and sugar); nilupak made with coconut milk?
Unisan
RIZAL:
Angono - folk art painting; Higantes Festival; petroglyphs tour; Balaw-Balaw Restaurant (minaluto, bougainvilla salad, crispy alagaw, burong balaw-balaw) and Perdigon Vocalan Art Cafe; Muralist and National Artist Carlos Botong Francisco Family Museum tour; Blanco Family Museum tour; higantes papier mache; Nemiranda Gallery locket paintings and Art Camp
Antipolo City - cashew nuts, suman and mangga, Virgin of Antipolo pilgrimage
Baras
Binangonan - petroglyphs tour; freshwater fish
Cainta - kakanin (native ricecakes)
Cardona
Jala-Jala - dairy products
Morong
Pililla
Rodriguez (Montalban)
San Mateo
Tanay - kanduli dishes
Taytay - carved wooden furniture; Parish in the Sky tour; Club Manila East Beachwaves pool tour; Bahay Kawayan restaurant; Baras Church; garments; Isla woodwork shop products
Teresa - marble works
ALBAY: - pili nut products, assorted vegetable dishes cooked in gata ng niyog and chilies (laing/tinuto, pinangat, etc.), kanding-ga; Bicol Express, pork stew in coconut milk; tinutungang dinuguan (Bicolano version of pork blood stew)
Bacacay
Camalig - pinangat, tinuto (laing); St. John the Baptist church tour; Nuyda ancestral house tour
Daraga - sinigang na buko; Our Lady of the Gate church tour; Cena Una Restaurant
Guinobatan
Jovellar
Legazpi City - Locsin's mazapan pili, First Colonial Hotel cuisine (buko chopsuey, sili ice cream, pili nut ice cream, malunggay ice cream, tinuto ice cream, etc.); St. Gregory the Great Cathedral tour; Magayon Festival; Albay Gulf Memorial to Allied landings; Biggs chicken
Libon
Ligao City
Malilipot
Malinao - Vera Falls tour
Manito
Oas - St. Lawrence the Martyr church tour
Pio Duran
Polangui
Rapu-Rapu
Santo Domingo (Libog) - Bonifacio-Rizal monument; Potenciano V. Gregorio (composer of folk song, "Sarung Banggi") mausoleum; St. Dominic of Guzman church tour; Sarung Banggi festival
Tabaco City - St. John the Baptist church tour
Tiwi - Nuestra Senora de Salvacion church tour
CAMARINES NORTE:
Basud
Capalonga
Daet - Formosa-variety pineapple; heritage tour: the Philippines’ first Rizal monument, memorial to 1898 martyrs, Lamitan Battle Memorial, Museo Bulawan and its Amorsolo corner
Jose Panganiban
Labo - church tour
Mercedes
Paracale - Church of Our Lady of Candelaria tour, Rufino Pabico ancestral house
San Lorenzo Ruiz (Imelda)
San Vicente
Santa Elena
Talisay
Vinzons
CAMARINES SUR:
Baao
Balatan
Bato
Buhi - pinangat - "taro packets flavored by talangka (river crab) and steamed on a bed of tanglad; cooked by the Agta/Itom"
Bula
Camaligan
Canaman
Del Gallego
Gainza
Goa
Iriga City
Lagonoy
Libmanan
Lupi
Magarao
Milaor
Minalabac
Nabua
Naga City - ChocoNaga - chocolate bar with pili nuts; Our lady of Penafrancia replica and other basilica souvenirs; J. Emmanuel Pastries; bottled Bicol express; coco jam with pili; Baycrafts fashion accesories; Pancho Piano stained glass art; laing; Museo Concillar Seminario de Nueva Caceres; Our Lady of Penafrancia Festival; Naga Metropolitan Cathedral, Penafrancia Shrine, and Basilica Minore; Almeda ancestral house; Roco memorabilia; Naga City Ecology Park; 1st Colonial Grill's sili ice cream
Ocampo
Pamplona
Pasacao
Pili
Presentacion (Parubcan)
Ragay
Sagnay
San Fernando
San Jose
Sipocot
Siruma
Tigaon
Tinambac
CATANDUANES: - dried bacalao
Bagamanoc
Baras
Bato
Caramoran
Gigmoto
Pandan
Panganiban
San Andres (Calolbon)
San Miguel
Viga
Virac - sinamay, pinukpok, tinalak, dagmay, and other abaca products – Virac, Catanduanes
MASBATE:
Aroroy
Baleno
Balud
Batuan
Cataingan
Cawayan
Claveria
Dimasalang
Esperanza
Mandaon
Masbate City (Capital)
Milagros
Mobo
Monreal
Palanas
Pio V. Corpuz (Limbuhan)
Placer
San Fernando
San Jacinto
San Pascual
Uson
SORSOGON: - dried pusit; cupapa (pitik-pitik) slipper lobster dish; kinagang (chopped river shrimp with garlic, herba buena and grated coconut wrapped in hagikhik leaf); tamitim (cassava cake topped with coconut cream and pili nuts); tuwad-tuwad snail dish; sikad-sikad snail dish; binut-ong (glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaf pouch paired off with santan or sweet coco jam); alimango (mud crab) and pawik (red frog crab or spanner crab) dishes
Barcelona - cupapa dish
Bulan
Bulusan - Bulusan Lake, Mt. Bulusan, Lake Aguingay, Hormahan and Sharp Peak mountain formations; cupapa dish
Casiguran
Castilla
Donsol - whale shark interaction
Gubat - surf beaches of Buenavista, Pinontingan, and Panganiban
Irosin
Juban
Magallanes
Matnog - Subic Beach Dakay and Subic Beach Dako beaches; cupapa dish
Pilar
Prieto Diaz - danggit
Santa Magdalena - cupapa dish
Sorsogon City
AKLAN:
Altavas
Balete
Banga
Batan
Burungan
Ibajay
Kalibo - Ati-Atihan Festival
Lezo
Libacao
Madalag
Makato
Malay - businesses around the beach of Boracay, from Boracay lamps to puka shell necklace
Malinao
Nabas
New Washington
Numancia
Tangalan
ANTIQUE: lumbay leaves cooked with urang (shrimp) by the Ati
Anini-Y
Barbaza
Belison
Bugasong
Caluya
Culasi
Hamtic
Laua-An
Libertad
Pandan
Patnongon
San Jose
San Remigio
Sebaste
Sibalom
Tibiao
Tobias Fornier (Dao)
Valderrama
CAPIZ:
Cuartero
Dao
Dumalag
Dumarao
Ivisan
Jamindan
Ma-Ayon
Mambusao
Panay
Panitan
Pilar
Pontevedra
President Roxas
Roxas City (Capital) - fresh diwal
Sapi-An
Sigma
Tapaz
GUIMARAS: -the world's sweetest mangoes; binakol na manok - "cooked by the Ati, but the original uses bayawak (monitor lizard)"
Buenavista
Jordan
Nueva Valencia
San Lorenzo
Sibunag
More from Iloilo:
Tabu-an Festival; laswa - "boiled vegetables made sweet by freshness of vegetables, which are simply boiled and seasoned minimally"; bagongon (black cone shellfish) cooked in yams and coconut milk - "heavy but flavorful"; native chicken cooked as adobo sa dilaw (turmeric); "alumpiran leaves for souring young native chicken (damuraga nga darag) in the dish pinaisan nga darag sa kuron"; langkawas (blue ginger); adobado nga biga-biga - "braised pig’s innards cut into bite-size pieces—perfect for feasts, and made orange with achuete oil"; ukoy nga talaba (oysters in batter); squid relleno; kilawin nga baboy - "fried pork seasoned with a vinegar mix"; pochero nga guya ng baka (beef face or maskara) with some pork knuckles cooked with tomato sauce in the Spanish style; panara - turnover, or empanada, with an outer shell made with rice flour, each filled with shrimp and mongo sprouts, shaped into a half-moon then placed on banana leaves from which each piece slides down to the hot oil; panara made of pancit efuven (egg noodle) with steamed shrimps (tinuom nga pasayan), uhong (mushroom) and patola (sponge gourd); fresh lumpia made with ubod (coconut pith) and lengua con setas con olivas (ox tongue with mushrooms and olives); nilagpang na pantat (hito, catfish) - "fish grilled then picked (the bones discarded), mixed with grilled onions and tomatoes, flavored with vinegar, sugar, soy sauce and chili, then added with hot water to make a curious but tasty soup"; escabeche of lison, sweet and sour dried fish; catmon tree "which produces beautiful white flowers and green apple-like fruits that are used to sour sinigang dishes"
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL:
Bacolod City - napoleones, butter scotch, piaya; Ati-Atihan Festival; Aida’s chicken inasal and apan-apan
Bago City
Binalbagan
Cadiz City
Calatrava
Candoni
Cauayan
Enrique B. Magalona (Saravia)
Escalante City
Himamaylan City
Hinigaran
Hinoba-An (Asia)
Ilog
Isabela
Kabankalan City
La Carlota City
La Castellana
Manapla
Moises Padilla (Magallon)
Murcia
Pontevedra
Pulupandan
Sagay City
Salvador Benedicto
San Carlos City
San Enrique
Silay City
Talisay City
Toboso
Valladolid
Victorias City
BOHOL: - broas, tarsier stuff toy, kalamay
Albuquerque
Alicia
Anda
Antequera
Baclayon
Balilihan
Batuan
Bien Unido
Bilar
Buenavista
Calape
Candijay
Carmen - Chocolate Hills tours; Philippine tarsier sighting
Catigbian
Clarin
Corella
Cortes
Dagohoy
Danao
Dauis
Dimiao
Duero
Garcia Hernandez
Guindulman
Inabangay
Jagna
Jetafe
Lila
Loay
Loboc - Loboc Children's choir
Loon
Mabini
Maribojoc
Panglao - beach-related products and services
Pilar
Pres. Carlos P. Garcia (Pitogo
Sagbayan (Borja)
San Isidro
San Miguel
Sevilla
Sierra Bullones
Sikatuna
Tagbilaran City - local delicacies: bam-i, Bohol suman, etc.
Talibon
Trinidad
Tubigon - peanut kisses
Ubay
Valencia
CEBU: Cebu lechon de leche: “It is so tasty we Cebuanos never have sauce.”; adobong Bisaya or sinangkutsang adobo
Alcantara
Alcoy
Alegria
Aloguinsa
Argao
Asturias
Badian
Balamban
Bantayan
Barili
Bogo
Boljoon
Borbon
Carcar
Carmen
Catmon
Cebu City - otap, rosquillos, holjadres, masareal, danggit (dried sole/flounder), dried mangoes, tablea, lechon Cebu, sutukil eateries, rice steamed in puso (triangular pockets of woven coconut leaf mat), binignit (soupy dessert of taro, sweet potato and saba banana); utan vegetable soup dish; Mactan stone (limestone), guitars, bandurrias, ukeleles, Magellan-Lapu Lapu history tour
Compostela
Consolacion
Cordova - Entoy's Bakasihan's eel dishes (tinuwa or larang)
Daanbantayan
Dalaguete
Danao City
Dumanjug
Ginatilan
Lapu-Lapu City
Liloan - otap, rosquillos
Madridejos
Malabuyoc
Mandaue City
Medellin
Minglanilla
Moalboal - snokeling and scuba diving schools
Naga
Oslob - whale shark interaction
Pilar
Pinamungahan
Popo
Ronda
Samboan
San Fernando
San Francisco
San Remigio
Santa Fe
Santander
Sibonga
Sogod
Tabogon
Tabuelan
Talisay City
Tuburan
Tudela
NEGROS ORIENTAL: Dumaguete Express - Hayahay restaurant's version of Bicol Express topped with lechon kawali; Negros Oriental version of halang-halang, chicken tinola with pepper and coconut milk
Amlan (Ayuquitan)
Ayugon
Bacong
Basay
Bayawan City (Tulong)
Bindoy (Payabon)
Dauin
Dumaguete City - curacha or “sea roach,” a specialty of a restaurant called Lab-as, best cooked in the restaurant’s homemade hot sauce; budbud kabog (suman often flavored with chocolate and made of millet)
Guihulngan
Jimalalud
La Libertad
Mabinay
Manjuyod
Pamplona
San Jose
Santa Catalina
Siaton
Sibulan
Tayasan
Valencia (Luzurrizga) - Casaroro Falls tour
Vallehermoso
Zamboanguita
SIQUIJOR:
Enrique Villanueva
Larena
Lazi
Maria
San Juan
Siquijor
BILIRAN:
Almeria
Biliran
Cabucgayan
Caibiran
Culaba
Kawayan
Maripipi
Naval
EASTERN SAMAR: - ecotourism, San Juanico Bridge
Arteche
Balangiga - history tour of the missing churchbells
Balangkayan
Borongan (Capital) - Monbon Island fish sanctuary; Suribao River cruise; waterfalls; delicacy tour (piking (cassava), podpod (disc-shaped smoked fish), salukara (animal fat-flavored pancake), tuba (coconut toddy); fresh seafood; tarukog shellfish dishes (sisig, dinabong), kilawing ulnitan (sea cucumber) dish, raw arakaak seafood
Can-Avid
Dolores
General Macarthur
Giporlos
Guiuan - history tour (Ferdinand Magellan's landing, Homonhon Is., First Mass, US Army WWII takeoff site); Calicoan Surf Camp; 400-year-old stone Catholic Church and chapel
Hernani
Jipapad
Lawaan - Amanhuray and Amandaraga falls
Llorente
Maslog
Maydolong
Mercedes
Oras
Quinapondan
Salcedo
San Julian - snorkeling
San Policarpo
Sulat - undertow-free and uncrowded beaches
Taft - forest birds-watching
LEYTE: binignit (soupy dessert of taro, sweet potato, saba banana, jackfruit, etc.); binagol (taro root in milk); moron (ground glutinous rice with chocolate)
Abuyog
Alangalang
Albuera
Babatngon
Barugo - "roscas, Waray butter cookie; de caña, saltier version of roscas; torta, almost like butter cake wrapped in red Japanese paper with decorative cutouts at the edges; humba, chunks of pork darkened by soy sauce, the fat sliced in squares and wiggling because it has been cooked till past tender, flavored by black beans and peanuts; chuletas, pork ribs cooked in a marinating sauce of soy sauce and calamansi juice then coated with flour, dipped in egg and fried; lomo guisado, the tender part of beef sliced thinly then cooked by sautéing in ginger and garlic then added with water to make soup, sometimes made even more flavorful by the addition of beef blood; hinatukang manok, chicken cooked with coconut milk also made richer with chicken blood; pakdol, boiled carabao feet much like the Batangas bulalo and the Ilonggo kansi, a tuba drinker’s favorite, consisting of very tender skin and ligaments which come out very gelatinous and apparently restorative; two kinds of kinilaw or ceviche-tanguigue, or Spanish mackerel cubes and twakang or big anchovies bathed in coconut milk; escabeche of fish, the Waray version more sour than the sweet sour sauce generally known and yellowish because of the dilaw or turmeric; tinola, the lightly sour sinigang of the region that always enhances the freshness of the fish; bahalina, coconut wine (?)" - Mickey Fenix, Inquirer:
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20100513-269611/Humba-chuletas-hinatukang-manok--pakdol-make-way-for-Waray)
Bato - longaniza Leyte
Baybay
Burauen
Calubian
Capoocan
Carigara
Dagami - "a mixture of talyan (a type of root crop similar to gabi), coconut milk and sugar placed in coconut shells or "bagol" and steamed inside"; chocolate moron - "suman made of ground rice cooked in coconut milk flavored with cocoa"; sagmani - "another suman made of cassava, gabi or sweet potatoes cooked with coconut cream, sugar and sometimes coconut meat" - all quotes from Ivan Henares
Dulag
Hilongos
Hindang
Inopacan
Isabel
Jaro
Javier (Bugho)
Julita
Kananga
La Paz
Leyte
Macarthur
Mahaplag
Matag-Ob
Matalom
Mayorga
Merida
Ormoc City - fresh seafood with lato 9seaweed); sahang, imbao, nukos, bihod, sisi, tuyom, mamsa; Queen-variety pineapple; round chorizo; Tres Marias suman (kabog or millet + moron or ground glutinous rice with chocolate + regular rice) http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20100520-270986/Sahang-imbao-nukos-bihod-sisi-tuyom-mamsa-Ormocs-best-seafoods
Palo
Palompon
Pastrana
San Isidro
San Miguel
Santa Fe
Tabango
Tabontabon
Tacloban City - pakdol - carabao meat bulalo; Sangyaw Festival; Sto. Festival; Sto. Nino Shrine and Leyte Capitol tour
Tanauan
Tolosa
Tunga
Villaba
NORTHERN SAMAR:
Allen
Biri
Bobon
Capul
Catarman
Catubig
Gamay
Laoang
Lapinig
Las Navas
Lavezares
Lope De Vega
Mapanas
Mondragon
Palapag
Pambujan
Rosario
San Antonio
San Isidro
San Jose
San Roque
San Vicente
Silvino Lobos
Victoria
SOUTHERN LEYTE:
Anahawan
Bontoc
Hinunangan
Hinundayan
Libagon
Liloan - "fresh talaba (oysters) and kinilaw na sunlutan (sea cucumber) sold at the Liloan Municipal Plaza"
Limasawa
Maasin City
Macrohon
Malitbog
Padre Burgos
Pintuyan
Saint Bernard
San Francisco
San Juan (Cabalian)
San Ricardo
Silago
Sogod
Tomas Oppus
WESTERN SAMAR:
Almagro
Basey
Calbayog City
Calbiga - Lulugayan Falls tour
Catbalogan
Daram
Gandara
Hinabangan
Jiabong
Marabut
Matuguinao
Motiong
Pagsanghan
Paranas (Wright)
Pinabacdao
San Jorge
San Jose De Buan
San Sebastian
Santa Margarita
Santa Rita
Santo Nino
Tagapul-An
Talalora
Tarangan
Villareal
Zumarraga
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE: pamapa itum (Tausug spice mix), satti (spicy satay-like barbecue which is part of a breakfast meal), curacha (red frog crab), imbao (mangrove white clams cooked with butter and garlic), Zamboanga White (creamy lychee drink), butong (buko or young coconut pie), Zamboanga cocido (boiled beef with flavor from bacon, chorizo or ham bone with saba and camote), pork sinigang with camanse (breadfruit), chicken and pork estopao (like afritada), dinugaan (a version with pork belly slices and innards cooked as adobo first before adding the pork blood), salmuera (talakitok or jack sliced then salted and kept for three days then cooked in coconut milk with camanse), adobo with shredded dried fish, juani (a big Indian mango variety), Zamboanga tamal (tamales that has noodles within)
Bacungan
Baliguian
Dapitan City - Rizal tour: Handuraw Festival, Casa Redonda, Casa Cuadrada, Love Rock, Rizaliana Museum; Dakak Park Beach Resort; Gloria de Dapitan; Kinabayo Festival
Dipolog City (Capital)
Godod
Gutalac
Jose Dalman (Ponot)
Kalawit
Katipunan
La Libertad
Labason
Liloy
Manukan
Mutia
Pinan (New Pinan)
Polanco
Pres. Manuel A. Roxas
Rizal
Salug
Sergio Osmena Sr.
Siayan
Sibuco
Sibutad
Sindangan
Siocon
Sirawai
Tampilisan
???- lokot-lokot - "batter made from ground rice, water and sugar; cooked using wooden spatula; the batter is poured into a coconut shell with several holes, then the shell is swayed over hot oil, producing noodle-like streams that are shaped with the spatulas; a celebratory food"
ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR:
Aurora
Bayog
Dimataling
Dinas
Dumingag
Guipos
Josefina
Kumalarang
Labangan
Lakewood
Lapuyan
Mahayag
Margosatubig
Midsalip
Molave
Pagadian City (Capital)
Pitogo
Ramon Magsaysay (Liargo)
San Miguel
San Pablo
Sominot (Don Mariano Marcos)
Tabina
Tambulig
Tigbao
Tukuran
Vincenzo A. Sagun
Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY:
Alicia
Buug
Diplahan
Imelda
Ipil
Kabasalan
Mabuhay
Malangas
Naga
Olutanga
Payao
Roseller Lim
Siay
Talusan
Titay
Tungawan
BUKIDNON: - pine tree-strewn peaks; pineapple plantations; cornfields; Roadhouse Cafe sizzling puchero; Del Monte pineapple; the world's sweetest pineapples (“Estrella,” “Aloha,” Honey Pines brands); Nasuli Spring picnic and swimming spot; D’Stable Eco Resort (Quadra) - ranch, horse rides, nipa huts; mountain-climbing at Two Trees Mountain of Bukidnon Provincial Tree Park; Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park (an ASEAN Heritage Park); Kaamulan Nature Park pine trees and native-inspired highland cottages; Bukidnon Provincial Capitol
Damulog
Dangcagan
Don Carlos
Impasug-Ong
Kadingilan
Kalilangan
Kibawe
Kitaotao
Lantapan
Libona
Malaybalay City (Capital) - Monastery of Carmelite Nuns; Jesuit Retreat House; hinabol - woven abaca fabric used for making house decors, fashion accessories, purses, blinds, flowers, placemats and bags (Nida’s Handicrafts, Malaybalay Choice Handicrafts, Zeta Trading and Valdez Handicrafts); Monastery of the Transfiguration pyramid-shaped church designed by the National Artist for Architecture Leandro Locsin; Monk’s Blend Premium Coffee, Monk’s Peanut Butter, roasted peanut, peanut brittle and tablea; Ereccion del Pueblo (creation of the town) golden monument at Rizal Park depicting the 1877 agreement between the Spanish colonizers and the local leaders; Roxas Monument in honor of the late president Manuel Roxas; World War II Prisoners of War Memorial Shrine; Dalwangan Centennial Marker
Malitbog
Manolo Fortich - Del Monte's burger patties; Del Monte Golf Course Clubhouse steak and pineapple plantation
Maramag
Pangantucan
Quezon
San Fernando
Sumilao
Talakag
Ref: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/why-not-try-the-breathtaking-bukidnon-.html
CAMIGUIN: - reportedly the sweetest carabao mangoes in the world, lanzones, 'pastillas' (flavored custard cakes); Lanzones Festival; Vjandep's pastel factory and bakeshop
Catarman
Guinsiliban
Mahinog
Mambajao
Sagay
LANAO DEL NORTE:
Bacolod
Baloi
Baroy
Iligan City (44 Bgys) - sukang pinakurat; Cheding's toasted peanuts; Tinago Falls tour
Kapatagan
Kauswagan
Kolambugan
Lala
Linamon
Magsaysay
Maigo
Matungao
Munai
Nunungan
Pantao Ragat
Pantar
Poona Piagapo
Salvador
Sapad
Sultan Naga Dimaporo (Karomata
Tagoloan
Tangcal
Tubod (Capital)
MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL:
Aloran
Baliangao
Bonifacio
Calamba
Clarin
Concepcion
Don Victoriano Chiongbian (Don
Jimenez
Lopez Jaena
Oroquieta City (Capital)
Ozamis City
Panaon
Plaridel
Sapang Dalaga
Sinacaban
Tangub City
Tudela
MISAMIS ORIENTAL:
Alubijid
Balingasag
Balingoan
Binuangan
Cagayan De Oro City (Capital) - Vjandep's pastel factory and bakeshop, pineapple, bananas, panga ng tuna, sinuglaw, Roadhouse Cafe sizzling puchero, Del Monte burgers, Alaskan pollock, Tabing Dagat, La Vetta, Limketkai Mall, Dahilayan Adventure Park zipline; motorelas; St. Augustine Metropolitan Cathedral; mangosteen, lanzoes, marang, Liceo de Cagayan University; Gardens of Malasag ecotourism village, Talaanding, Subanen, Manobo, nd Higaonon tribal museum; Cagayan de Oro River rapids; whitewater rafting; hanging bridge; Kagay-anon restaurant's ostrich salpicao and sour sinuglaw, a mixture of sinugba (grilled pork) and tuna kinilaw
Claveria
El Salvador - Divine Mercy Shrine
Gingoog City
Gitagum
Initao
Jasaan
Kinoguitan
Lagonglong
Laguindingan
Libertad
Lugait
Magsaysay (Linugos)
Manticao
Medina
Naawan
Opol
Salay
Sugbongcogon
Tagoloan
Talisayan
Villanueva
COMPOSTELLA VALLEY: lurot - "chicken with tanglad (lemongrass) cooked in bamboo by the Mansaka"
Compostela
Laak (San Vicente)
Mabini (Dona Alicia)
Maco
Maragusan (San Mariano)
Mawab
Monkayo
Montevista
Nabunturan
New Bataan
Pantukan
DAVAO DEL NORTE:
Asuncion (Saug)
Braulio E. Dujali
Carmen
Kapalong
New Corella
Panabo City
Samal Island Garden City - capiz shells; Boodle Fight meal and Crocodile Sisig at Maxima Aqua Fun Resort
Santo Tomas
Tagum City (Capital)
Talaingod
DAVAO DEL SUR: kadiya - "flower buds used to perfume a beef dish called sapi of the B’laan; paired with lupi, a suman (rice cake), both containing a handful of chopped chili"
Bansalan - inabal weaves
Davao City - durian, mangosteen, marang, Davao pomelo, dalanghita, and associated products; durian pie; beef stewed in chocolate sauce, Maranao chicken curry, Mandaya rice; sampaloc, durian, mangosteen cakes; sinamak (spicy vinegar dip); ginamos (Visayan bagoong); law-uy vegetable soup; bilang-bilang salad; LGB (lacatan, guyabano, pineapple) cooler; durian coffe; San Pedro Cathedral tour, Eden Nature Park, Philippine Eagle Center, Museo Dabawenyo, Dabawenyo Tsino Hall, Bantawan exhibition and workshop space, Araw ng Dabaw Festival, Kadayawan Festival, Vista Restaurant, Fishing Village pinaputok na tilapia and hito, etc., Crocodile Park's Sweet Spot durian ice cream made of crocodile eggs, Mount Apo Civet Coffee, durian coffee, Crocodile Riverwalk Grill's crocodile dishes, Tribu, K'Kamindanawan cultural village, Oboza Heritage House tour, Tiny Kitchen's Spanish recipes, Cellar de Boca's wine and tapas kitchen, Green Coffee's Cheesy Banana Loaf and Green Tea with Fine Salt and Cheese, durian sweets, mangosteen sweets, galletas, tocino, Malagos Cheese Store, Malagos Garden waling-waling and other cutflowers, Alfonso Boy Guinoo's handmade trinkets, fashion accessories, souvenir shirts, and native (Mansaka, Ata Manobo, T'Boli, B'laan, Mandaya) outfits, Harana Restaurant, tuna dishes - bagaybay (milt), bihod (roe), ubol-ubol (tendon), Davao Wildwater Rafting
Digos City (Capital)
Don Marcelino
Hagonoy
Jose Abad Santos (Trinidad)
Kiblawan
Magsaysay
Malalag
Malita
Matanao
Padada
Santa Cruz
Santa Maria
Sarangani
Sulop
DAVAO ORIENTAL:
Baganga
Banaybanay
Boston
Caraga
Cateel
Lupon
Manay
San Isidro
Tarragona
NORTH COTABATO:
Alamada - Asik-Asik Falls tour
Aleosan
Antipas
Arakan
Banisilan
Carmen
Kabacan
Kidapawan City (Capital)
Libungan
Magpet
Makilala
Matalam
Midsayap
M'lang
Pigkawayan
Pikit
President Roxas
Tulunan
SARANGANI: - Manny Pacquiao sighting
Alabel (Capital)
Glan
Kiamba
Maasim
Maitum
Malapatan
Malungon
SOUTH COTABATO:
Banga
General Santos City (Dadiangas) - fresh tuna and salmon, tuna skin chicharon
Koronadal City (Capital)
Lake Sebu - Seven Waterfalls tour, Seven Falls zipline, Lake Sebu boating, T'boli Museum tour, T'boli handicrafts, habal-habal (motorcycle taxi) ride, assorted tilapia dishes (from daing to fuyong, kilawin, to tocino), t'nalak handicrafts/beadwork/embroidery/brassware/wood carvings, COWHED souvenir shop, Estares Lake Resort, Punta Isla Resort
Norala
Polomolok
Santo Nino
Surallah
Tampakan
Tantangan
T'boli
Tupi
SULTAN KUDARAT: - ginakit boats
Bagumbayan
Columbio
Esperanza
Isulan
Kalamansig
Lambayong (Mariano Marcos)
Lebak
Lutayan
Palimbang
President Quirino
Sen. Ninoy Aquino
Tacurong City
AGUSAN DEL NORTE:
Buenavista
Butuan City (Capital) - tuna and malusugue kinilaw: http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2008/02/sea-to-mouth.html
Cabadbaran City - abaca; artificial fish sanctuary
Carmen
Jabonga
Kitcharao
Las Nieves
Magallanes
Nasipit
Remedios T. Romualdez
Santiago
Tubay
AGUSAN DEL SUR:
Bayugan City - falcata tree farms, waterfalls, Bayug Festival
Bunawan
Esperanza
La Paz
Loreto
Prosperidad (Capital)
Rosario
San Francisco
San Luis
Santa Josefa
Sibagat
Talacogon
Trento
Veruela
SURIGAO DEL NORTE: - Siargao Is. surfing; Bucas Grande lagoons
Alegria
Bacuag
Basilisa (Rizal)
Burgos
Cagdianao
Claver
Dapa
Del Carmen
Dinagat
General Luna
Gigaquit
Libjo (Albor)
Loreto
Mainit
Malimono
Pilar
Placer
San Benito
San Francisco (Anao-Aon)
San Isidro
San Jose
Santa Monica
Sison
Socorro
Surigao City (Capital) - sayongsong (glutinous rice blended with coco milk, sugar and milk and wrapped in cone-shaped banana leaf); Pebble Beach
Tagana-An
Tubajon
Tubod
SURIGAO DEL SUR: Bretania Islands tour, Laswitan
Barobo- seaweed, rock oysters (tikod-amo)
Bayabas - aquamarine products
Bislig City - coco-based products; Tinuy-an Falls tour; birdwatching for rare Mindanao species
Cagwait - tourism
Cantilan - aquamarine products
Carmen - banana
Carrascal - abaca
Cortes - seaweed
Hinatuan - aquamarine products; Enchanted River tour
Lanuza - agsam-based products
Lianga - seaweed
Lingig - handicrafts
Madrid - peanut products
Marihatag - abaca
San Agustin - handicrafts
San Miguel - abaca
Tagbina - coffee
Tago - crabs, cassava pudding
Tandag City (Capital) - abaca; Twin Linungao Island rock formation
BASILAN: kaliya manuk - "chicken cooked by Yakan ladies for rituals, thickened by ground rice colored yellow using dilaw or dulaw (turmeric)"; tiyula itum - "a Tausug beef soup using dilaw plus two other kinds of ginger (the ordinary luyang Tagalog and the langkawas (blue ginger), pounded together with tanglad using mortar and pestle to make sure that the flavors from the different ingredients melded perfectly; the itum (black color) came from blackened coconut meat pounded to powder form; the centerpiece of a celebration, and if at a wedding, indicates there is a dowry"
Lamitan CIty - rubber; coffee; Lamihan Festival (Tumahik Yakan war dance, agong, kulintangan, gabbang, kuliang); Yakan tapestry; Bulingan Falls tour; Palm Beach, Ma-arena, Malo-ong Canal beaches; Calun Shrine; City Museum
Lantawan
Maluso
Sumisip
Tipo-Tipo
Tuburan
LANAO DEL SUR: - baor treasure chest making in Tugaya
Binidayan
Bubong
Calanogas
Lumbatan
Lumbayanague
Madalum
Marantao
Marogong
Pagayawan (Tatarikan)
Piagapo
Poona Bayabao (Gata)
Tamparan
Tubaran
MAGUINDANAO: jaa - "batter made from ground rice, water and sugar; cooked by the Palawani using wooden spatula; looks like elongated rice crispies"
Ampatuan
Barira
Buldon
Buluan
Datu Abdullah Sanki
Datu Odin Sinsuat
Datu Paglas
Datu Piang
Datu Saudi Ampatuan
Datu Unsay
Gen. S. K. Pendatun
Guindulungan
Kabuntalan
Mamasapano
Matanog
Pagagawan
Pagalungan
Paglat
Parang
Shariff Aguak
South Upi
Sultan Kudarat
Sultan Mastura
Sultan Sa Barongis
Talayan
Talitay
Upi
SULU: kurma, "a chicken, pork or beef curry dish with peanut butter whose 'sauce is so delicious, you have to soak it up with rice or bread.'”
Jolo (Capital)
Kalingalan Caluang
Lugus
Luuk
Maimbung
Old Panamao
Pandami
Panglima Estino (New Panamao)
Pangutaran
Parang
Pata
Patikul
Siasi
Talipao
Tapul
Tongkil
TAWI-TAWI:
Bongao - business district that is "home to a Muslim mosque, a Chinese Temple and varied churches for Catholics, Protestants, Baptist, Iglesia ni Cristo, and Seven Day Adventist"; guso (seaweed), tyula itum (spicy beef soup), syanglag (roasted grated cassava), an alternative to rice; "satti made of roasted beef, chicken or liver dipped in heavy sweet and spicy sauce"; Chinese Pier large fishing boats; Tawi-Tawi Provincial Capitol (in Islamic architectural style); mountain climbing at Bud Bongao, a sacred mountain for the Muslims, feeding of macaques, and "a panoramic view of Sanga-Sanga Island and the turquoise sea"; Silisad Beach, "with interesting rock and coral formations"; "houses on stilts mostly occupied by the former seafaring Bajaus"; Bajau Village's colorful Bajau mats called tepo, "intricately hand-woven by Bajau women out of pandan leaves"
Reference: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/blogs/pinay-solo-backpacker/breaking-bongao-tawi-tawi-024218240.html
Sapa-Sapa
Simunul
Sitangkai
South Ubian
Tandubas
Turtle Islands
ABRA: - laing - "cooked by the Tinggian using the gabi (yam) stalks rather than the leaves as done in Bicol"
Baay-Licuan (Licuan)
Bangued
Boliney
Bucay
Bucloc
Daguioman
Danglas
Dolores
La Paz
Lacub
Lagangilang
Lagayan
Langiden
Luba
Malibcong
Manabo
Penarubia
Pidigan
Pilar
Sallapadan
San Isidro
San Juan
San Quintin
Tayum
Tineg
Tubo
APAYAO: sinandila - "Apayao-Isnag Cordillera version or rice cake, which is steamed but wrapped in banana leaves"
Calanasan (Bayag)
Conner
Flora
Kabugao
Luna
Pudtol
Santa Marcela
BENGUET: - Igorot baskets, Igorot weaves (ikat); inandila (ground rice dessert)
Atok
Baguio City - Tantamco's ube halaya, Good Shepherd's bottled goodies (ube jam, strawberry preserves, lengua de gato, peanut brittle, etc.), sayote and other chop suey vegetables, fresh flowers (everlasting, statis, etc.), fresh strawberries and other fresh fruits, sundot kulangot, Baguio barrel man and other wood scuptures; Mikasan lengua de gato and choco flakes, DL silvers, Easter School weaving products, Naduma T-shirts, ukay-ukay/wagwagan finds; butter cookies
Bakun
Bokod
Buguias
Itogon
Kabayan - mummy sightseeing
Kapangan - kiniing (a smoked version of the salt-cured meat etag)
Kibungan
La Trinidad - strawberry, potatoes, other 'Baguio vegetables', flower farming, pinikpikan (bloodied chicken ritual dish)
Mankayan - bignay (black currant?) wine
Sablan
Tubao
Tublay
IFUGAO: - Ifugao native rice
Aguinaldo
Alfonso Lista (Potia)
Asipulo
Banaue - rice terraces sightseeing; Ifugao sculpture; diket turon (a sweet dessert of saba banana, camote and glutinous rice)
Hingyon
Hungduan
Kiangan
Lagawe
Lamut
Mayoyao
Tinoc
KALINGA: inandila - "Gaddang rice cake made of malagkit (sticky rice) wrapped in alaw leaves, steamed and then sweetened with latik (cooked coconut milk)"
Balbalan
Pasil
Pinukpuk
Rizal (Liwan)
Tabuk (Capital) - motit (civet cat) coffee
Tanudan
Tinglayan
MOUNTAIN PROVINCE: etag (salt-cured meat); pinikpikan (chicken or duck bled to death via slow beating)
Barlig
Bauko
Besao
Bontoc - pinikpikan - "chicken soup by the Balangao-Bontok Applai; the chicken is beaten lightly (“killing me softly”); after the feathers were burnt and removed, the entrails were read by the elders to determine if the chicken could be used in the canao ritual; to the dish was added the inasin or etag, air-dried salted pork, all boiled to make a bracing ritual food"
Natonin
Paracelis
Sabangan
Sadanga
Sagada - Sumaguing Cave spelunking tour, hanging coffin tour, Sagada weaves, Eduardo Masferre photos, Bomod-ok Falls tour, Lake Danom tour, rice terraces walk; Bana's Arabica coffee house; Lemon Pie House lemon pie using Sagada lemons; Christina Aben's Sagada Museum; pinikpikan chicken dish; etag, smoked and air-dried pork; Sagada orange; wild blueberry; blueberry pie
Tadian
NCR: street foods like Adidas or Nike Air Jordan (chicken feet), tukneneng, kwek-kwek, battery, chicken helmet, chicken helmet with neck, chicken heart and liver, IUD or isaw, fish balls, kikiam, palitaw, balut, Boy Bawang cornick, taho, fried one-day old chick; skewered grilled chicken gizzard, chicken spleen, and tenga or pork ears
City Of Mandaluyong
City Of Manila - San Miguel Beer, soup No. 5 of Binondo
City Of Marikina - shoes
City Of Pasig
Kalookan City
Las Pinas City
Makati City - Amber's pancit Malabon and pichi-pichi
Malabon City - pancit Malabon
Muntinlupa City
Navotas
Paranaque City
Pasay City
Pateros - balut, salted eggs
Quezon City - La Loma's pares, chicharong bituka, chicharong bulaklak, Lydia's lechon
San Juan
Taguig - inutak (glutinous rice cake specialty, which looks like brain)
Valenzuela City
MARINDUQUE: Arrowroot cookies; Moriones festival; Morion masks
Boac
Buenavista
Gasan
Mogpog
Santa Cruz
Torrijos
OCCIDENTAL MINDORO: - tamaraw-watching
Abra de Ilog
Calintaan
Looc
Lubang
Magsaysay
Mamburao
Paluan - carabao milk pastillas
Rizal
Sablan
San Jose
Santa Cruz
ORIENTAL MINDORO:
Baco
Bansud
Bongabong
Bulalacao (San Pedro)
Calapan City
Gloria
Mansalay
Naujan
Pinamalayan
Pola
Puerto Galera
Roxas
San Teodoro
Socorro
Victoria
PALAWAN: amik - "Tagbanwa good luck doughnut cooked using two wooden spatulas called gagari to spin batter made from ground rice mixed with water; the pointed part at the opposite end of the gagari, the dulay matula, is used to punch a hole in the middle so the amik is cooked through"
Aborlan
Agutaya
Araceli
Balabac
Bataraza
Brooke's Point
Busuanga
Cagayancillo
Coron
Culion
Cuyo
Dumaran
El Nido (Bacuit)
Kalayaan
Linapacan
Magsaysay
Narra
Puerto Princesa City - fresh lobster
Quezon
Rizal (Marcos)
Roxas
San Vicente
Sofronio Espanola
Taytay
ROMBLON: - marble and marble products (grave markers?)
Alcantara
Banton
Cajidiocan
Calatrava
Concepcion
Corcuera
Ferrol
Looc
Magdiwang
Odiongan
Romblon
San Agustin
San Andres
San Fernando
San Jose
Santa Fe
Santa Maria (Imelda)
Thanks to pia.gov.ph for the list. Also to Ivan Henares's blog. Also to this blog: http://blogs.gmanews.tv/joan-bulauitan/archives/14-Whats-the-best-pasalubong.html#comments
Other references:
"After the storm, Ilocos Norte holds festivities" by Rene Guatlo, PDI, 11.08.2009
"Surf's Up! Time to go" by Tina Arceo Dumlao PDI SIM 11.08.2009
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20091119-237073/Flavors-of-Iloilo--and-where-to-find-them Flavors of Iloilo -and where to find them
By Jaymee T. Gamil
Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20091119-237076/Satti-curacha-imbao-salmuera-butong-pie-Zamboangas-specialties
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090408-198604
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20100204-251154/Sinukmani-kilawing-puso-ng-saging-guinataang-yapyap-matse-Sta-Rosa
To be sorted:
tiratira
Chocnut
Boy Bawang cornick
Sugo dried peanuts
spicy dried pusit
spicy dilis
spicy tuyo in olive oil
siniguelas
jicima
atis
guava
kamatsili
inihaw na manok
'isaw, adidas, IUD, betamax'
bulalo
peanut crackling (?)and peanut-based snack - the one I saw in Colette's
Reference: http://tarlacprovince.com/
ZAMBALES: - Mt. Pinatubo hiking/adventure; mud spa; beaches; Ramon Magsaysay historical tour; Anawangin beach camping, Capones Island beach
Botolan
Cabangan
Candelaria
Castillejos
Iba (Capital) - Dinamulag Festival; giant sweet mangoes
Masinloc
Olongapo City - The Coffeeshop Restaurant’s hard-shell jumbo tacos, Ralli’s Grill and Bar’s Ro’s Special (grilled chicken breast in white sauce topped with cheese), Wimpy’s comfort food, Mulawin pan de sal, Mansion Bakery and King’s Bakeshop breads, Olongapo City Museum, Ulo ng Gapo marker, Kalaklan Lighthouse, Marikit Park, Volunteers’ Shrine
Palauig
San Antonio - Pundaquit Music and Arts Festival, Casa San Miguel, Museum of Community Heritage
San Felipe
San Marcelino
San Narciso
Santa Cruz
Subic - Subic rainforest for monkey-, bird- and giant fruit bat-watching, Treetop Adventure (ziplines, canopy rides, Aeta jungle survival guide, etc.), Zoobic Zafari, White Rock Beach Resort, Subic Freeport multisports activities, Ocean View Beach Resort, Subic Bay Yacht Club sunset cruise, the Spanish Gate at The Arsenal naval station
BATANGAS: - kapeng barako; tawilis (a freshwater sardine) with a mountain of rice in Rose and Grace (?); caldereta Batangas (uses pickles in place of tomato sauce); tuba vinegar
Agoncillo
Alitagtag
Balayan - bagoong Balayan
Balete
Batangas City - suman yakap dipped in kalamay-hati, dinuguan a la batangas
Bauan
Calaca
Calatagan
Cuenca
Ibaan
Laurel
Lemery - balisong; Our Lady of Caysasay shrine tour; bagoong Lemery; walis tingting from kaong
Lian
Lipa City - lomi
Lobo
Mabini
Malvar
Mataas Na Kahoy
Nasugbu
Padre Garcia
San Jose
San Juan
San Luis
San Nicolas
San Pascual
Santa Teresita
Santo Tomas
Taal - bahay na bato tour, church tour, historic shrine tour
Talisay
Tanauan City
Taysan
Tingloy
Tuy
CAVITE: civet cat coffee (kape alamid); tahong; owner-type jeep; history tour; church architectural tour; kaong vinegar; pancit pusit ("sotanghon noodles made black with squid ink garnished with chicharon (pork crackling) and sliced kamias (bilimbi) on totop"); quesillo (kesong puti); Cavite tamales; bitchokoy, bibingkoy; Dizon Bakery kenkoy cookie, bacalao (dried salted cod); haleyang sampalok (tamarind jam); Asiong's restaurant/Sonny Lua's chicken pastel; fish sinigang sa miso ("the mustard leaves used was fermented (buro) instead of fresh"); Ellen and Boy Robinson’s tamales ("full of peanuts and egg on top of the steamed rice base"); fermented fish roe (fish eggs eaten with the Cavite fish sauce called patis labo partly because of its intense flavor and its dark coloring); biyuko variety mango ("which you can put whole into your mouth, scraping out the flesh with your teeth so that what remains is the flat seed"; different from the supsupin, which is as small but has a more rounded seed"); sweetened siniguelas (Spondias purpurea); dried sweetened tomatoes; Baby Pat’s Bread and Pastries ensaymada (e.g. ube, Nutella, speculoos); Beruete’s Bakery's crisp pan de sal [From: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/91787/sample-cavite-delicacies-from-tamales-to-pancit-pusit#sthash.46Y6guov.dpuf]
Alfonso - firewalking (thanksgiving tradition)
Amadeo - coffee varieties
Bacoor - Digman halo-halo
Carmona
Cavite City - owner-type jeeps; Fort San Felipe tour
Dasmarinas
Gen. Mariano Alvarez
General Emilio Aguinaldo
General Trias
Imus
Indang
Kawit - Aguinaldo Shrine tour, Josephine Restaurant (Mutya ng Cavite, asadong alimango, pancit seafood, etc.), Cafe Amadeo coffee
Magallanes
Maragondon - heritage church tour
Mendez (Mendez-Nunez)
Naic
Noveleta - anting-anting/amulet/agimat/bertud making
Rosario - Tejeros Convention Center tour
Silang - Ilog ni Maria Honeybee farm and honeybee products
Tagaytay City - senorita bananas, dwarf pineapple, Taal Vista Hotel volcano-viewing, espasol, horseback-riding, cutflowers, ampalaya achara
Tanza
Ternate
Trece Martires City (Capital)
LAGUNA: ensaladang pako (fresh fern leaves) with kesong puti (carabao cheese); tawilis (a freshwater sardine) with a mountain of rice in Rose and Grace
Alaminos
Bay
Binan - townhouses
Cabuyao - cassava cake
Calamba City - Rizal shrine tour, Pansol hotsprings, Mt. Makiling mountaineering and birwatching
Calauan
Cavinti - Lake Caliraya tour, lakeside resorts, Japanese Garden (memorial park) tour
Famy - mountain-climbing
Kalayaan - Exotik Restaurant tour, frog-head coin purses and frog-feet keychains
Liliw - abaca-fiber slippers and leather footwear, uraro, turones de kasuy, espasol, macapuno candy
Los Banos - original buko pie, including Letty's and Sheila's; UP Los Banos tour, espasol, uraro, pastillas, lambanog, cashew nougat, bibingkang itlog
Luisiana - pandan
Lumban - barong
Mabitac
Magdalena - St. Mary Magdalene church and Emilio Jacinto shrine tour
Majayjay - St. Gregory Parish Church, Emilio Jacinto memorial tour, tinutong laing, pako salad
Nagcarlan - shingaling; underground cemetery tour
Paete - taka (papier-mâché horse), wood carvings, bakya, ice-carving, food-carving, movie props making/film production design work products, minani
Pagsanjan - lanzones, rambutan, tikoy, kalamay, puto bumbong, shooting the rapids (Pagsanjan falls) tour; Bangkero Festival
Pakil - Virgin of Turumba church shrine tour; whittling quetana wood
Pangil
Pila - church and heritage houses tour
Rizal
San Pablo City - Colette's buko pie, El Mare special buko pie and chicken pie, seven lakes city tour, river shrimps in coconut milk, kilawing labanos, kulawo, sinukmani; food tour at Patis Tito Garden Café consisting of longganisa San Pablo with sautéed onions and tomatoes, chicken and pork adobo with buko meat, crispy dilis salad; black tilapia from Kalibato Lake; pesang dalag
San Pedro
Santa Cruz - kesong puti; Kesong Puti Festival
Santa Maria
Santa Rosa - Enchanted Kingdom fun rides; sinukmani and kilawing puso ng saging, guinataang yapyap, matse/mache (rice flour balls), Bok's flavored ice cream, atole (corn maja blanca)
Siniloan
Victoria - kinulob na itik
QUEZON: - copra?, lambanog; Baler, Aurora history tour and surfing
Agdangan
Alabat
Atimonan
Buenavista
Burdeos
Calauag
Candelaria
Catanauan
Dolores - moutaineering, religious-cultural tour; Kinabuhayan Cafe, sapinit or wild raspberry
General Luna
General Nakar
Guinayangan
Gumaca
Infanta
Jomalig
Lopez
Lucban - Lucban longanisa, pancit habhab, rice wafer; hardinera meat loaf
Lucena City - broas, apas,
Macalelon
Mauban
Mulanay
Padre Burgos
Pagbilao
Panukulan
Patnanungan
Perez
Pitogo
Plaridel
Polillo
Quezon
Real
Sampaloc
San Andres
San Antonio
San Francisco (Aurora)
San Narciso
Sariaya - - food tour at Villa Sariaya consisting of beef minanok (beef tinola using blanched mustard leaves instead of pepper leaves); lengua estofado; bulanglang na ubod with tomato liver sauce; pinais na alimasag (crab wrapped in a leaf called kamamba (found only in the foothills of Mt. Banahaw) then wrapped again in banana leaf and cooked in buko water); chicken pastel; pinagong, pan de Aleman and other pastries
Tagkawayan
Tayabas - Baler surfing; food tour at Memphis Garden Café at Graceland Estates and Country Club: Haing Quezon consisting of sinaing na tulingan in dried kalamyas; longganisang Lucban; bonete bread; pinagong bread; budin (cassava pudding made creamier with the use of Star margarine and coconut milk); kalamay; minalutong kanin (rice topped with sweet potato then wrapped in banana leaves); sinigang (with coconut water and tamarind) na hipon sa mura, hardinera at Doña Aurora; adobong baka sa gata at papaya; pansit na malunggay; lumpiang gulay na sariwa; kilawing bangus; Delino Chicken (a cross between tinola and sinigang, the chicken stuffed with spices, herbs, glutinous rice and sausage then submerged in hot broth; tagayan drinking ritual
Tiaong - food tour at Ugu Bigyan’s Pottery Garden consisting of kulawo (banana heart (or eggplant) with coconut milk dressing, with grated coconut cooked in charcoal, adding a unique smoky flavour, then topped with Ternate flower); pako salad (blanched fiddlehead ferns tossed with finely chopped red onions, then topped with a few slices of salted duck eggs, with mixed greens and fruits drizzled with kalamansi juice, fish sauce and sugar); nilupak made with coconut milk?
Unisan
RIZAL:
Angono - folk art painting; Higantes Festival; petroglyphs tour; Balaw-Balaw Restaurant (minaluto, bougainvilla salad, crispy alagaw, burong balaw-balaw) and Perdigon Vocalan Art Cafe; Muralist and National Artist Carlos Botong Francisco Family Museum tour; Blanco Family Museum tour; higantes papier mache; Nemiranda Gallery locket paintings and Art Camp
Antipolo City - cashew nuts, suman and mangga, Virgin of Antipolo pilgrimage
Baras
Binangonan - petroglyphs tour; freshwater fish
Cainta - kakanin (native ricecakes)
Cardona
Jala-Jala - dairy products
Morong
Pililla
Rodriguez (Montalban)
San Mateo
Tanay - kanduli dishes
Taytay - carved wooden furniture; Parish in the Sky tour; Club Manila East Beachwaves pool tour; Bahay Kawayan restaurant; Baras Church; garments; Isla woodwork shop products
Teresa - marble works
ALBAY: - pili nut products, assorted vegetable dishes cooked in gata ng niyog and chilies (laing/tinuto, pinangat, etc.), kanding-ga; Bicol Express, pork stew in coconut milk; tinutungang dinuguan (Bicolano version of pork blood stew)
Bacacay
Camalig - pinangat, tinuto (laing); St. John the Baptist church tour; Nuyda ancestral house tour
Daraga - sinigang na buko; Our Lady of the Gate church tour; Cena Una Restaurant
Guinobatan
Jovellar
Legazpi City - Locsin's mazapan pili, First Colonial Hotel cuisine (buko chopsuey, sili ice cream, pili nut ice cream, malunggay ice cream, tinuto ice cream, etc.); St. Gregory the Great Cathedral tour; Magayon Festival; Albay Gulf Memorial to Allied landings; Biggs chicken
Libon
Ligao City
Malilipot
Malinao - Vera Falls tour
Manito
Oas - St. Lawrence the Martyr church tour
Pio Duran
Polangui
Rapu-Rapu
Santo Domingo (Libog) - Bonifacio-Rizal monument; Potenciano V. Gregorio (composer of folk song, "Sarung Banggi") mausoleum; St. Dominic of Guzman church tour; Sarung Banggi festival
Tabaco City - St. John the Baptist church tour
Tiwi - Nuestra Senora de Salvacion church tour
CAMARINES NORTE:
Basud
Capalonga
Daet - Formosa-variety pineapple; heritage tour: the Philippines’ first Rizal monument, memorial to 1898 martyrs, Lamitan Battle Memorial, Museo Bulawan and its Amorsolo corner
Jose Panganiban
Labo - church tour
Mercedes
Paracale - Church of Our Lady of Candelaria tour, Rufino Pabico ancestral house
San Lorenzo Ruiz (Imelda)
San Vicente
Santa Elena
Talisay
Vinzons
CAMARINES SUR:
Baao
Balatan
Bato
Buhi - pinangat - "taro packets flavored by talangka (river crab) and steamed on a bed of tanglad; cooked by the Agta/Itom"
Bula
Camaligan
Canaman
Del Gallego
Gainza
Goa
Iriga City
Lagonoy
Libmanan
Lupi
Magarao
Milaor
Minalabac
Nabua
Naga City - ChocoNaga - chocolate bar with pili nuts; Our lady of Penafrancia replica and other basilica souvenirs; J. Emmanuel Pastries; bottled Bicol express; coco jam with pili; Baycrafts fashion accesories; Pancho Piano stained glass art; laing; Museo Concillar Seminario de Nueva Caceres; Our Lady of Penafrancia Festival; Naga Metropolitan Cathedral, Penafrancia Shrine, and Basilica Minore; Almeda ancestral house; Roco memorabilia; Naga City Ecology Park; 1st Colonial Grill's sili ice cream
Ocampo
Pamplona
Pasacao
Pili
Presentacion (Parubcan)
Ragay
Sagnay
San Fernando
San Jose
Sipocot
Siruma
Tigaon
Tinambac
CATANDUANES: - dried bacalao
Bagamanoc
Baras
Bato
Caramoran
Gigmoto
Pandan
Panganiban
San Andres (Calolbon)
San Miguel
Viga
Virac - sinamay, pinukpok, tinalak, dagmay, and other abaca products – Virac, Catanduanes
MASBATE:
Aroroy
Baleno
Balud
Batuan
Cataingan
Cawayan
Claveria
Dimasalang
Esperanza
Mandaon
Masbate City (Capital)
Milagros
Mobo
Monreal
Palanas
Pio V. Corpuz (Limbuhan)
Placer
San Fernando
San Jacinto
San Pascual
Uson
SORSOGON: - dried pusit; cupapa (pitik-pitik) slipper lobster dish; kinagang (chopped river shrimp with garlic, herba buena and grated coconut wrapped in hagikhik leaf); tamitim (cassava cake topped with coconut cream and pili nuts); tuwad-tuwad snail dish; sikad-sikad snail dish; binut-ong (glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaf pouch paired off with santan or sweet coco jam); alimango (mud crab) and pawik (red frog crab or spanner crab) dishes
Barcelona - cupapa dish
Bulan
Bulusan - Bulusan Lake, Mt. Bulusan, Lake Aguingay, Hormahan and Sharp Peak mountain formations; cupapa dish
Casiguran
Castilla
Donsol - whale shark interaction
Gubat - surf beaches of Buenavista, Pinontingan, and Panganiban
Irosin
Juban
Magallanes
Matnog - Subic Beach Dakay and Subic Beach Dako beaches; cupapa dish
Pilar
Prieto Diaz - danggit
Santa Magdalena - cupapa dish
Sorsogon City
AKLAN:
Altavas
Balete
Banga
Batan
Burungan
Ibajay
Kalibo - Ati-Atihan Festival
Lezo
Libacao
Madalag
Makato
Malay - businesses around the beach of Boracay, from Boracay lamps to puka shell necklace
Malinao
Nabas
New Washington
Numancia
Tangalan
ANTIQUE: lumbay leaves cooked with urang (shrimp) by the Ati
Anini-Y
Barbaza
Belison
Bugasong
Caluya
Culasi
Hamtic
Laua-An
Libertad
Pandan
Patnongon
San Jose
San Remigio
Sebaste
Sibalom
Tibiao
Tobias Fornier (Dao)
Valderrama
CAPIZ:
Cuartero
Dao
Dumalag
Dumarao
Ivisan
Jamindan
Ma-Ayon
Mambusao
Panay
Panitan
Pilar
Pontevedra
President Roxas
Roxas City (Capital) - fresh diwal
Sapi-An
Sigma
Tapaz
GUIMARAS: -the world's sweetest mangoes; binakol na manok - "cooked by the Ati, but the original uses bayawak (monitor lizard)"
Buenavista
Jordan
Nueva Valencia
San Lorenzo
Sibunag
ILOILO: - napoleones, piyaya, batchoy, puto manapla, sinamak (Ilonggo vinegar), pancit efuven, baye-baye, batuan-soured linaga, Mang Inasal chicken inasal; paraw; Dinagyang Festival; Calle Real heritage architecture; barquillos, cylindrical wafers; biscocho, sugared toasted bread; banadas, sugar cookies glazed with icing; galletas, thin milk biscuits; Panaderia de Molo, Biscocho Haus biscocho, piaya, barquillos, toasted mamon; Tinapayan; Deco's authentic la paz batchoy; Mama’s Kitchen for homemade cookies with local flavors, like pinipig crunchies and mango chewies; generations-old piña, jusi and hablon (or sinamay) weaving; Avanceña family’s tsokolate: Homegrown cocoa beans, ground and mixed with Alpine milk, slow-cooked in a cast-iron tsokolatera, stirred with a guava batidor and served with ibus and sweet mangoes; Freska, the creamy, mocha-colored butterscotch gelato served in coconut husk with barquillo as scoop; grilled diwal (angel-wing shellfish); kinilaw na tanuige (vinegar-marinated mackerel); chicken binakol (chicken broth with sweet coconut); Breakthrough's aligue (crab fat) rice, sizzling crabmeat, grilled managat (mangrove jack or Visayan snapper); Casa Ilongga crispy crablets, kadios-baboy-langka/KBL, pancit molo; guinamos (Ilonggo dry bagoong) and dried fish, fish bones and squid, which you can apparently fry and eat like crackers; Panaderia de Molo galletas, sugar toast, butterscotch, pinasugbo; tinu-om chicken: steamed inside banana leaf packets; Tabu-an Festival cooking competition; freshly roasted coffee served in tin cans, YSL: Ybos Saint Laurent, fried caramelized suman with jackfruit and mangoes; Central Market Tabu-an lunch of Pinoy salad, inihaw na baboy, dried salted fish, estofado nga pato sa tuba (duck slow-cooked in coconut sap vinegar), tinu-om, paksiong bangus (vinegar-stewed bangus), steamed crabs, and upland brown rice topped with kalkag (dried krill) and guinamos; kinihad, lubid-lubid, kwakoy, bañadas; laswa vegetable hodgepodge soup (like bulanglang and dinengdeng)
Ajuy
Alimodian
Anilao
Badiangan
Balasan
Banate
Barotac Nuevo
Barotac Viejo
Batad
Bingawan
Cabatuan
Calinog
Carles
Concepcion
Dingle
Duenas
Dumangas
Estancia
Guimbal - Guimbal Church tour
Igbaras
Iloilo City - Paraw Regatta; Tatoy's Manukan; Trappist Monastery; neogothic Molo Church featuring women saints, Jaro Church featuring male saints; Lizares Mansion tour, Nelly Garden tour, Montinola Mansion tour; hacienda and neoclassical and art deco mansions tour; J.M. Basa St. tour of Spanish and American colonial period structures, Camiña Balay nga Bato tour in Arevalo District featuring Lola Rufina Curio Shop and its tablea, tsokolate, panara (mongo shoots-stuffed empanada dipped in garlic vinegar), and cuchinta
Janiuay
Lambunao
Leganes
Lemery
Leon
Maasin
Miagao - UNESCO-inscribed church of unique Aztec, baroque, and Filipino botanical influences
Mina
New Lucena
Oton - hand woven hablon
Passi City
Pavia
Pototan
San Dionisio
San Enrique
San Joaquin
San Miguel
San Rafael
Santa Barbara - Kawilhayan Festival (commemorating revolt against Spaniards), tour of the town church and the oldest golf course in the country
Sara
Tigbauan - Tigbauan Church tour
Tubungan
Zarraga
More from Iloilo:
Tabu-an Festival; laswa - "boiled vegetables made sweet by freshness of vegetables, which are simply boiled and seasoned minimally"; bagongon (black cone shellfish) cooked in yams and coconut milk - "heavy but flavorful"; native chicken cooked as adobo sa dilaw (turmeric); "alumpiran leaves for souring young native chicken (damuraga nga darag) in the dish pinaisan nga darag sa kuron"; langkawas (blue ginger); adobado nga biga-biga - "braised pig’s innards cut into bite-size pieces—perfect for feasts, and made orange with achuete oil"; ukoy nga talaba (oysters in batter); squid relleno; kilawin nga baboy - "fried pork seasoned with a vinegar mix"; pochero nga guya ng baka (beef face or maskara) with some pork knuckles cooked with tomato sauce in the Spanish style; panara - turnover, or empanada, with an outer shell made with rice flour, each filled with shrimp and mongo sprouts, shaped into a half-moon then placed on banana leaves from which each piece slides down to the hot oil; panara made of pancit efuven (egg noodle) with steamed shrimps (tinuom nga pasayan), uhong (mushroom) and patola (sponge gourd); fresh lumpia made with ubod (coconut pith) and lengua con setas con olivas (ox tongue with mushrooms and olives); nilagpang na pantat (hito, catfish) - "fish grilled then picked (the bones discarded), mixed with grilled onions and tomatoes, flavored with vinegar, sugar, soy sauce and chili, then added with hot water to make a curious but tasty soup"; escabeche of lison, sweet and sour dried fish; catmon tree "which produces beautiful white flowers and green apple-like fruits that are used to sour sinigang dishes"
Bacolod City - napoleones, butter scotch, piaya; Ati-Atihan Festival; Aida’s chicken inasal and apan-apan
Bago City
Binalbagan
Cadiz City
Calatrava
Candoni
Cauayan
Enrique B. Magalona (Saravia)
Escalante City
Himamaylan City
Hinigaran
Hinoba-An (Asia)
Ilog
Isabela
Kabankalan City
La Carlota City
La Castellana
Manapla
Moises Padilla (Magallon)
Murcia
Pontevedra
Pulupandan
Sagay City
Salvador Benedicto
San Carlos City
San Enrique
Silay City
Talisay City
Toboso
Valladolid
Victorias City
BOHOL: - broas, tarsier stuff toy, kalamay
Albuquerque
Alicia
Anda
Antequera
Baclayon
Balilihan
Batuan
Bien Unido
Bilar
Buenavista
Calape
Candijay
Carmen - Chocolate Hills tours; Philippine tarsier sighting
Catigbian
Clarin
Corella
Cortes
Dagohoy
Danao
Dauis
Dimiao
Duero
Garcia Hernandez
Guindulman
Inabangay
Jagna
Jetafe
Lila
Loay
Loboc - Loboc Children's choir
Loon
Mabini
Maribojoc
Panglao - beach-related products and services
Pilar
Pres. Carlos P. Garcia (Pitogo
Sagbayan (Borja)
San Isidro
San Miguel
Sevilla
Sierra Bullones
Sikatuna
Tagbilaran City - local delicacies: bam-i, Bohol suman, etc.
Talibon
Trinidad
Tubigon - peanut kisses
Ubay
Valencia
CEBU: Cebu lechon de leche: “It is so tasty we Cebuanos never have sauce.”; adobong Bisaya or sinangkutsang adobo
Alcoy
Alegria
Aloguinsa
Argao
Asturias
Badian
Balamban
Bantayan
Barili
Bogo
Boljoon
Borbon
Carcar
Carmen
Catmon
Cebu City - otap, rosquillos, holjadres, masareal, danggit (dried sole/flounder), dried mangoes, tablea, lechon Cebu, sutukil eateries, rice steamed in puso (triangular pockets of woven coconut leaf mat), binignit (soupy dessert of taro, sweet potato and saba banana); utan vegetable soup dish; Mactan stone (limestone), guitars, bandurrias, ukeleles, Magellan-Lapu Lapu history tour
Compostela
Consolacion
Cordova - Entoy's Bakasihan's eel dishes (tinuwa or larang)
Daanbantayan
Dalaguete
Danao City
Dumanjug
Ginatilan
Lapu-Lapu City
Liloan - otap, rosquillos
Madridejos
Malabuyoc
Mandaue City
Medellin
Minglanilla
Moalboal - snokeling and scuba diving schools
Naga
Oslob - whale shark interaction
Pilar
Pinamungahan
Popo
Ronda
Samboan
San Fernando
San Francisco
San Remigio
Santa Fe
Santander
Sibonga
Sogod
Tabogon
Tabuelan
Talisay City
Tuburan
Tudela
NEGROS ORIENTAL: Dumaguete Express - Hayahay restaurant's version of Bicol Express topped with lechon kawali; Negros Oriental version of halang-halang, chicken tinola with pepper and coconut milk
Amlan (Ayuquitan)
Ayugon
Bacong
Basay
Bayawan City (Tulong)
Bindoy (Payabon)
Dauin
Dumaguete City - curacha or “sea roach,” a specialty of a restaurant called Lab-as, best cooked in the restaurant’s homemade hot sauce; budbud kabog (suman often flavored with chocolate and made of millet)
Guihulngan
Jimalalud
La Libertad
Mabinay
Manjuyod
Pamplona
San Jose
Santa Catalina
Siaton
Sibulan
Tayasan
Valencia (Luzurrizga) - Casaroro Falls tour
Vallehermoso
Zamboanguita
SIQUIJOR:
Enrique Villanueva
Larena
Lazi
Maria
San Juan
Siquijor
BILIRAN:
Almeria
Biliran
Cabucgayan
Caibiran
Culaba
Kawayan
Maripipi
Naval
EASTERN SAMAR: - ecotourism, San Juanico Bridge
Arteche
Balangiga - history tour of the missing churchbells
Balangkayan
Borongan (Capital) - Monbon Island fish sanctuary; Suribao River cruise; waterfalls; delicacy tour (piking (cassava), podpod (disc-shaped smoked fish), salukara (animal fat-flavored pancake), tuba (coconut toddy); fresh seafood; tarukog shellfish dishes (sisig, dinabong), kilawing ulnitan (sea cucumber) dish, raw arakaak seafood
Can-Avid
Dolores
General Macarthur
Giporlos
Guiuan - history tour (Ferdinand Magellan's landing, Homonhon Is., First Mass, US Army WWII takeoff site); Calicoan Surf Camp; 400-year-old stone Catholic Church and chapel
Hernani
Jipapad
Lawaan - Amanhuray and Amandaraga falls
Llorente
Maslog
Maydolong
Mercedes
Oras
Quinapondan
Salcedo
San Julian - snorkeling
San Policarpo
Sulat - undertow-free and uncrowded beaches
Taft - forest birds-watching
LEYTE: binignit (soupy dessert of taro, sweet potato, saba banana, jackfruit, etc.); binagol (taro root in milk); moron (ground glutinous rice with chocolate)
Abuyog
Alangalang
Albuera
Babatngon
Barugo - "roscas, Waray butter cookie; de caña, saltier version of roscas; torta, almost like butter cake wrapped in red Japanese paper with decorative cutouts at the edges; humba, chunks of pork darkened by soy sauce, the fat sliced in squares and wiggling because it has been cooked till past tender, flavored by black beans and peanuts; chuletas, pork ribs cooked in a marinating sauce of soy sauce and calamansi juice then coated with flour, dipped in egg and fried; lomo guisado, the tender part of beef sliced thinly then cooked by sautéing in ginger and garlic then added with water to make soup, sometimes made even more flavorful by the addition of beef blood; hinatukang manok, chicken cooked with coconut milk also made richer with chicken blood; pakdol, boiled carabao feet much like the Batangas bulalo and the Ilonggo kansi, a tuba drinker’s favorite, consisting of very tender skin and ligaments which come out very gelatinous and apparently restorative; two kinds of kinilaw or ceviche-tanguigue, or Spanish mackerel cubes and twakang or big anchovies bathed in coconut milk; escabeche of fish, the Waray version more sour than the sweet sour sauce generally known and yellowish because of the dilaw or turmeric; tinola, the lightly sour sinigang of the region that always enhances the freshness of the fish; bahalina, coconut wine (?)" - Mickey Fenix, Inquirer:
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20100513-269611/Humba-chuletas-hinatukang-manok--pakdol-make-way-for-Waray)
Bato - longaniza Leyte
Baybay
Burauen
Calubian
Capoocan
Carigara
Dagami - "a mixture of talyan (a type of root crop similar to gabi), coconut milk and sugar placed in coconut shells or "bagol" and steamed inside"; chocolate moron - "suman made of ground rice cooked in coconut milk flavored with cocoa"; sagmani - "another suman made of cassava, gabi or sweet potatoes cooked with coconut cream, sugar and sometimes coconut meat" - all quotes from Ivan Henares
Dulag
Hilongos
Hindang
Inopacan
Isabel
Jaro
Javier (Bugho)
Julita
Kananga
La Paz
Leyte
Macarthur
Mahaplag
Matag-Ob
Matalom
Mayorga
Merida
Ormoc City - fresh seafood with lato 9seaweed); sahang, imbao, nukos, bihod, sisi, tuyom, mamsa; Queen-variety pineapple; round chorizo; Tres Marias suman (kabog or millet + moron or ground glutinous rice with chocolate + regular rice) http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20100520-270986/Sahang-imbao-nukos-bihod-sisi-tuyom-mamsa-Ormocs-best-seafoods
Palo
Palompon
Pastrana
San Isidro
San Miguel
Santa Fe
Tabango
Tabontabon
Tacloban City - pakdol - carabao meat bulalo; Sangyaw Festival; Sto. Festival; Sto. Nino Shrine and Leyte Capitol tour
Tanauan
Tolosa
Tunga
Villaba
NORTHERN SAMAR:
Allen
Biri
Bobon
Capul
Catarman
Catubig
Gamay
Laoang
Lapinig
Las Navas
Lavezares
Lope De Vega
Mapanas
Mondragon
Palapag
Pambujan
Rosario
San Antonio
San Isidro
San Jose
San Roque
San Vicente
Silvino Lobos
Victoria
SOUTHERN LEYTE:
Anahawan
Bontoc
Hinunangan
Hinundayan
Libagon
Liloan - "fresh talaba (oysters) and kinilaw na sunlutan (sea cucumber) sold at the Liloan Municipal Plaza"
Limasawa
Maasin City
Macrohon
Malitbog
Padre Burgos
Pintuyan
Saint Bernard
San Francisco
San Juan (Cabalian)
San Ricardo
Silago
Sogod
Tomas Oppus
WESTERN SAMAR:
Almagro
Basey
Calbayog City
Calbiga - Lulugayan Falls tour
Catbalogan
Daram
Gandara
Hinabangan
Jiabong
Marabut
Matuguinao
Motiong
Pagsanghan
Paranas (Wright)
Pinabacdao
San Jorge
San Jose De Buan
San Sebastian
Santa Margarita
Santa Rita
Santo Nino
Tagapul-An
Talalora
Tarangan
Villareal
Zumarraga
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE: pamapa itum (Tausug spice mix), satti (spicy satay-like barbecue which is part of a breakfast meal), curacha (red frog crab), imbao (mangrove white clams cooked with butter and garlic), Zamboanga White (creamy lychee drink), butong (buko or young coconut pie), Zamboanga cocido (boiled beef with flavor from bacon, chorizo or ham bone with saba and camote), pork sinigang with camanse (breadfruit), chicken and pork estopao (like afritada), dinugaan (a version with pork belly slices and innards cooked as adobo first before adding the pork blood), salmuera (talakitok or jack sliced then salted and kept for three days then cooked in coconut milk with camanse), adobo with shredded dried fish, juani (a big Indian mango variety), Zamboanga tamal (tamales that has noodles within)
Bacungan
Baliguian
Dapitan City - Rizal tour: Handuraw Festival, Casa Redonda, Casa Cuadrada, Love Rock, Rizaliana Museum; Dakak Park Beach Resort; Gloria de Dapitan; Kinabayo Festival
Dipolog City (Capital)
Godod
Gutalac
Jose Dalman (Ponot)
Kalawit
Katipunan
La Libertad
Labason
Liloy
Manukan
Mutia
Pinan (New Pinan)
Polanco
Pres. Manuel A. Roxas
Rizal
Salug
Sergio Osmena Sr.
Siayan
Sibuco
Sibutad
Sindangan
Siocon
Sirawai
Tampilisan
???- lokot-lokot - "batter made from ground rice, water and sugar; cooked using wooden spatula; the batter is poured into a coconut shell with several holes, then the shell is swayed over hot oil, producing noodle-like streams that are shaped with the spatulas; a celebratory food"
ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR:
Aurora
Bayog
Dimataling
Dinas
Dumingag
Guipos
Josefina
Kumalarang
Labangan
Lakewood
Lapuyan
Mahayag
Margosatubig
Midsalip
Molave
Pagadian City (Capital)
Pitogo
Ramon Magsaysay (Liargo)
San Miguel
San Pablo
Sominot (Don Mariano Marcos)
Tabina
Tambulig
Tigbao
Tukuran
Vincenzo A. Sagun
Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY:
Alicia
Buug
Diplahan
Imelda
Ipil
Kabasalan
Mabuhay
Malangas
Naga
Olutanga
Payao
Roseller Lim
Siay
Talusan
Titay
Tungawan
BUKIDNON: - pine tree-strewn peaks; pineapple plantations; cornfields; Roadhouse Cafe sizzling puchero; Del Monte pineapple; the world's sweetest pineapples (“Estrella,” “Aloha,” Honey Pines brands); Nasuli Spring picnic and swimming spot; D’Stable Eco Resort (Quadra) - ranch, horse rides, nipa huts; mountain-climbing at Two Trees Mountain of Bukidnon Provincial Tree Park; Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park (an ASEAN Heritage Park); Kaamulan Nature Park pine trees and native-inspired highland cottages; Bukidnon Provincial Capitol
Baungon
CabanglasanDamulog
Dangcagan
Don Carlos
Impasug-Ong
Kadingilan
Kalilangan
Kibawe
Kitaotao
Lantapan
Libona
Malaybalay City (Capital) - Monastery of Carmelite Nuns; Jesuit Retreat House; hinabol - woven abaca fabric used for making house decors, fashion accessories, purses, blinds, flowers, placemats and bags (Nida’s Handicrafts, Malaybalay Choice Handicrafts, Zeta Trading and Valdez Handicrafts); Monastery of the Transfiguration pyramid-shaped church designed by the National Artist for Architecture Leandro Locsin; Monk’s Blend Premium Coffee, Monk’s Peanut Butter, roasted peanut, peanut brittle and tablea; Ereccion del Pueblo (creation of the town) golden monument at Rizal Park depicting the 1877 agreement between the Spanish colonizers and the local leaders; Roxas Monument in honor of the late president Manuel Roxas; World War II Prisoners of War Memorial Shrine; Dalwangan Centennial Marker
Malitbog
Manolo Fortich - Del Monte's burger patties; Del Monte Golf Course Clubhouse steak and pineapple plantation
Maramag
Pangantucan
Quezon
San Fernando
Sumilao
Talakag
Ref: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/why-not-try-the-breathtaking-bukidnon-.html
CAMIGUIN: - reportedly the sweetest carabao mangoes in the world, lanzones, 'pastillas' (flavored custard cakes); Lanzones Festival; Vjandep's pastel factory and bakeshop
Catarman
Guinsiliban
Mahinog
Mambajao
Sagay
LANAO DEL NORTE:
Bacolod
Baloi
Baroy
Iligan City (44 Bgys) - sukang pinakurat; Cheding's toasted peanuts; Tinago Falls tour
Kapatagan
Kauswagan
Kolambugan
Lala
Linamon
Magsaysay
Maigo
Matungao
Munai
Nunungan
Pantao Ragat
Pantar
Poona Piagapo
Salvador
Sapad
Sultan Naga Dimaporo (Karomata
Tagoloan
Tangcal
Tubod (Capital)
MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL:
Aloran
Baliangao
Bonifacio
Calamba
Clarin
Concepcion
Don Victoriano Chiongbian (Don
Jimenez
Lopez Jaena
Oroquieta City (Capital)
Ozamis City
Panaon
Plaridel
Sapang Dalaga
Sinacaban
Tangub City
Tudela
MISAMIS ORIENTAL:
Alubijid
Balingasag
Balingoan
Binuangan
Cagayan De Oro City (Capital) - Vjandep's pastel factory and bakeshop, pineapple, bananas, panga ng tuna, sinuglaw, Roadhouse Cafe sizzling puchero, Del Monte burgers, Alaskan pollock, Tabing Dagat, La Vetta, Limketkai Mall, Dahilayan Adventure Park zipline; motorelas; St. Augustine Metropolitan Cathedral; mangosteen, lanzoes, marang, Liceo de Cagayan University; Gardens of Malasag ecotourism village, Talaanding, Subanen, Manobo, nd Higaonon tribal museum; Cagayan de Oro River rapids; whitewater rafting; hanging bridge; Kagay-anon restaurant's ostrich salpicao and sour sinuglaw, a mixture of sinugba (grilled pork) and tuna kinilaw
Claveria
El Salvador - Divine Mercy Shrine
Gingoog City
Gitagum
Initao
Jasaan
Kinoguitan
Lagonglong
Laguindingan
Libertad
Lugait
Magsaysay (Linugos)
Manticao
Medina
Naawan
Opol
Salay
Sugbongcogon
Tagoloan
Talisayan
Villanueva
COMPOSTELLA VALLEY: lurot - "chicken with tanglad (lemongrass) cooked in bamboo by the Mansaka"
Compostela
Laak (San Vicente)
Mabini (Dona Alicia)
Maco
Maragusan (San Mariano)
Mawab
Monkayo
Montevista
Nabunturan
New Bataan
Pantukan
DAVAO DEL NORTE:
Asuncion (Saug)
Braulio E. Dujali
Carmen
Kapalong
New Corella
Panabo City
Samal Island Garden City - capiz shells; Boodle Fight meal and Crocodile Sisig at Maxima Aqua Fun Resort
Santo Tomas
Tagum City (Capital)
Talaingod
DAVAO DEL SUR: kadiya - "flower buds used to perfume a beef dish called sapi of the B’laan; paired with lupi, a suman (rice cake), both containing a handful of chopped chili"
Bansalan - inabal weaves
Davao City - durian, mangosteen, marang, Davao pomelo, dalanghita, and associated products; durian pie; beef stewed in chocolate sauce, Maranao chicken curry, Mandaya rice; sampaloc, durian, mangosteen cakes; sinamak (spicy vinegar dip); ginamos (Visayan bagoong); law-uy vegetable soup; bilang-bilang salad; LGB (lacatan, guyabano, pineapple) cooler; durian coffe; San Pedro Cathedral tour, Eden Nature Park, Philippine Eagle Center, Museo Dabawenyo, Dabawenyo Tsino Hall, Bantawan exhibition and workshop space, Araw ng Dabaw Festival, Kadayawan Festival, Vista Restaurant, Fishing Village pinaputok na tilapia and hito, etc., Crocodile Park's Sweet Spot durian ice cream made of crocodile eggs, Mount Apo Civet Coffee, durian coffee, Crocodile Riverwalk Grill's crocodile dishes, Tribu, K'Kamindanawan cultural village, Oboza Heritage House tour, Tiny Kitchen's Spanish recipes, Cellar de Boca's wine and tapas kitchen, Green Coffee's Cheesy Banana Loaf and Green Tea with Fine Salt and Cheese, durian sweets, mangosteen sweets, galletas, tocino, Malagos Cheese Store, Malagos Garden waling-waling and other cutflowers, Alfonso Boy Guinoo's handmade trinkets, fashion accessories, souvenir shirts, and native (Mansaka, Ata Manobo, T'Boli, B'laan, Mandaya) outfits, Harana Restaurant, tuna dishes - bagaybay (milt), bihod (roe), ubol-ubol (tendon), Davao Wildwater Rafting
Digos City (Capital)
Don Marcelino
Hagonoy
Jose Abad Santos (Trinidad)
Kiblawan
Magsaysay
Malalag
Malita
Matanao
Padada
Santa Cruz
Santa Maria
Sarangani
Sulop
DAVAO ORIENTAL:
Baganga
Banaybanay
Boston
Caraga
Cateel
Lupon
Manay
San Isidro
Tarragona
NORTH COTABATO:
Alamada - Asik-Asik Falls tour
Aleosan
Antipas
Arakan
Banisilan
Carmen
Kabacan
Kidapawan City (Capital)
Libungan
Magpet
Makilala
Matalam
Midsayap
M'lang
Pigkawayan
Pikit
President Roxas
Tulunan
SARANGANI: - Manny Pacquiao sighting
Alabel (Capital)
Glan
Kiamba
Maasim
Maitum
Malapatan
Malungon
SOUTH COTABATO:
Banga
General Santos City (Dadiangas) - fresh tuna and salmon, tuna skin chicharon
Koronadal City (Capital)
Lake Sebu - Seven Waterfalls tour, Seven Falls zipline, Lake Sebu boating, T'boli Museum tour, T'boli handicrafts, habal-habal (motorcycle taxi) ride, assorted tilapia dishes (from daing to fuyong, kilawin, to tocino), t'nalak handicrafts/beadwork/embroidery/brassware/wood carvings, COWHED souvenir shop, Estares Lake Resort, Punta Isla Resort
Norala
Polomolok
Santo Nino
Surallah
Tampakan
Tantangan
T'boli
Tupi
SULTAN KUDARAT: - ginakit boats
Bagumbayan
Columbio
Esperanza
Isulan
Kalamansig
Lambayong (Mariano Marcos)
Lebak
Lutayan
Palimbang
President Quirino
Sen. Ninoy Aquino
Tacurong City
AGUSAN DEL NORTE:
Buenavista
Butuan City (Capital) - tuna and malusugue kinilaw: http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2008/02/sea-to-mouth.html
Cabadbaran City - abaca; artificial fish sanctuary
Carmen
Jabonga
Kitcharao
Las Nieves
Magallanes
Nasipit
Remedios T. Romualdez
Santiago
Tubay
AGUSAN DEL SUR:
Bayugan City - falcata tree farms, waterfalls, Bayug Festival
Bunawan
Esperanza
La Paz
Loreto
Prosperidad (Capital)
Rosario
San Francisco
San Luis
Santa Josefa
Sibagat
Talacogon
Trento
Veruela
SURIGAO DEL NORTE: - Siargao Is. surfing; Bucas Grande lagoons
Alegria
Bacuag
Basilisa (Rizal)
Burgos
Cagdianao
Claver
Dapa
Del Carmen
Dinagat
General Luna
Gigaquit
Libjo (Albor)
Loreto
Mainit
Malimono
Pilar
Placer
San Benito
San Francisco (Anao-Aon)
San Isidro
San Jose
Santa Monica
Sison
Socorro
Surigao City (Capital) - sayongsong (glutinous rice blended with coco milk, sugar and milk and wrapped in cone-shaped banana leaf); Pebble Beach
Tagana-An
Tubajon
Tubod
SURIGAO DEL SUR: Bretania Islands tour, Laswitan
Barobo- seaweed, rock oysters (tikod-amo)
Bayabas - aquamarine products
Bislig City - coco-based products; Tinuy-an Falls tour; birdwatching for rare Mindanao species
Cagwait - tourism
Cantilan - aquamarine products
Carmen - banana
Carrascal - abaca
Cortes - seaweed
Hinatuan - aquamarine products; Enchanted River tour
Lanuza - agsam-based products
Lianga - seaweed
Lingig - handicrafts
Madrid - peanut products
Marihatag - abaca
San Agustin - handicrafts
San Miguel - abaca
Tagbina - coffee
Tago - crabs, cassava pudding
Tandag City (Capital) - abaca; Twin Linungao Island rock formation
BASILAN: kaliya manuk - "chicken cooked by Yakan ladies for rituals, thickened by ground rice colored yellow using dilaw or dulaw (turmeric)"; tiyula itum - "a Tausug beef soup using dilaw plus two other kinds of ginger (the ordinary luyang Tagalog and the langkawas (blue ginger), pounded together with tanglad using mortar and pestle to make sure that the flavors from the different ingredients melded perfectly; the itum (black color) came from blackened coconut meat pounded to powder form; the centerpiece of a celebration, and if at a wedding, indicates there is a dowry"
Lamitan CIty - rubber; coffee; Lamihan Festival (Tumahik Yakan war dance, agong, kulintangan, gabbang, kuliang); Yakan tapestry; Bulingan Falls tour; Palm Beach, Ma-arena, Malo-ong Canal beaches; Calun Shrine; City Museum
Lantawan
Maluso
Sumisip
Tipo-Tipo
Tuburan
LANAO DEL SUR: - baor treasure chest making in Tugaya
Binidayan
Bubong
Calanogas
Lumbatan
Lumbayanague
Madalum
Marantao
Marogong
Pagayawan (Tatarikan)
Piagapo
Poona Bayabao (Gata)
Tamparan
Tubaran
MAGUINDANAO: jaa - "batter made from ground rice, water and sugar; cooked by the Palawani using wooden spatula; looks like elongated rice crispies"
Ampatuan
Barira
Buldon
Buluan
Datu Abdullah Sanki
Datu Odin Sinsuat
Datu Paglas
Datu Piang
Datu Saudi Ampatuan
Datu Unsay
Gen. S. K. Pendatun
Guindulungan
Kabuntalan
Mamasapano
Matanog
Pagagawan
Pagalungan
Paglat
Parang
Shariff Aguak
South Upi
Sultan Kudarat
Sultan Mastura
Sultan Sa Barongis
Talayan
Talitay
Upi
SULU: kurma, "a chicken, pork or beef curry dish with peanut butter whose 'sauce is so delicious, you have to soak it up with rice or bread.'”
Hadji Panglima Tahil (Marungga)
IndananJolo (Capital)
Kalingalan Caluang
Lugus
Luuk
Maimbung
Old Panamao
Pandami
Panglima Estino (New Panamao)
Pangutaran
Parang
Pata
Patikul
Siasi
Talipao
Tapul
Tongkil
TAWI-TAWI:
Bongao - business district that is "home to a Muslim mosque, a Chinese Temple and varied churches for Catholics, Protestants, Baptist, Iglesia ni Cristo, and Seven Day Adventist"; guso (seaweed), tyula itum (spicy beef soup), syanglag (roasted grated cassava), an alternative to rice; "satti made of roasted beef, chicken or liver dipped in heavy sweet and spicy sauce"; Chinese Pier large fishing boats; Tawi-Tawi Provincial Capitol (in Islamic architectural style); mountain climbing at Bud Bongao, a sacred mountain for the Muslims, feeding of macaques, and "a panoramic view of Sanga-Sanga Island and the turquoise sea"; Silisad Beach, "with interesting rock and coral formations"; "houses on stilts mostly occupied by the former seafaring Bajaus"; Bajau Village's colorful Bajau mats called tepo, "intricately hand-woven by Bajau women out of pandan leaves"
Reference: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/blogs/pinay-solo-backpacker/breaking-bongao-tawi-tawi-024218240.html
Languyan
Mapun (Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi)
Panglima Sugala (Balimbing)Sapa-Sapa
Simunul
Sitangkai
South Ubian
Tandubas
Turtle Islands
ABRA: - laing - "cooked by the Tinggian using the gabi (yam) stalks rather than the leaves as done in Bicol"
Baay-Licuan (Licuan)
Bangued
Boliney
Bucay
Bucloc
Daguioman
Danglas
Dolores
La Paz
Lacub
Lagangilang
Lagayan
Langiden
Luba
Malibcong
Manabo
Penarubia
Pidigan
Pilar
Sallapadan
San Isidro
San Juan
San Quintin
Tayum
Tineg
Tubo
APAYAO: sinandila - "Apayao-Isnag Cordillera version or rice cake, which is steamed but wrapped in banana leaves"
Calanasan (Bayag)
Conner
Flora
Kabugao
Luna
Pudtol
Santa Marcela
BENGUET: - Igorot baskets, Igorot weaves (ikat); inandila (ground rice dessert)
Atok
Baguio City - Tantamco's ube halaya, Good Shepherd's bottled goodies (ube jam, strawberry preserves, lengua de gato, peanut brittle, etc.), sayote and other chop suey vegetables, fresh flowers (everlasting, statis, etc.), fresh strawberries and other fresh fruits, sundot kulangot, Baguio barrel man and other wood scuptures; Mikasan lengua de gato and choco flakes, DL silvers, Easter School weaving products, Naduma T-shirts, ukay-ukay/wagwagan finds; butter cookies
Bakun
Bokod
Buguias
Itogon
Kabayan - mummy sightseeing
Kapangan - kiniing (a smoked version of the salt-cured meat etag)
Kibungan
La Trinidad - strawberry, potatoes, other 'Baguio vegetables', flower farming, pinikpikan (bloodied chicken ritual dish)
Mankayan - bignay (black currant?) wine
Sablan
Tubao
Tublay
IFUGAO: - Ifugao native rice
Aguinaldo
Alfonso Lista (Potia)
Asipulo
Banaue - rice terraces sightseeing; Ifugao sculpture; diket turon (a sweet dessert of saba banana, camote and glutinous rice)
Hingyon
Hungduan
Kiangan
Lagawe
Lamut
Mayoyao
Tinoc
KALINGA: inandila - "Gaddang rice cake made of malagkit (sticky rice) wrapped in alaw leaves, steamed and then sweetened with latik (cooked coconut milk)"
Balbalan
Pasil
Pinukpuk
Rizal (Liwan)
Tabuk (Capital) - motit (civet cat) coffee
Tanudan
Tinglayan
MOUNTAIN PROVINCE: etag (salt-cured meat); pinikpikan (chicken or duck bled to death via slow beating)
Barlig
Bauko
Besao
Bontoc - pinikpikan - "chicken soup by the Balangao-Bontok Applai; the chicken is beaten lightly (“killing me softly”); after the feathers were burnt and removed, the entrails were read by the elders to determine if the chicken could be used in the canao ritual; to the dish was added the inasin or etag, air-dried salted pork, all boiled to make a bracing ritual food"
Natonin
Paracelis
Sabangan
Sadanga
Sagada - Sumaguing Cave spelunking tour, hanging coffin tour, Sagada weaves, Eduardo Masferre photos, Bomod-ok Falls tour, Lake Danom tour, rice terraces walk; Bana's Arabica coffee house; Lemon Pie House lemon pie using Sagada lemons; Christina Aben's Sagada Museum; pinikpikan chicken dish; etag, smoked and air-dried pork; Sagada orange; wild blueberry; blueberry pie
Tadian
NCR: street foods like Adidas or Nike Air Jordan (chicken feet), tukneneng, kwek-kwek, battery, chicken helmet, chicken helmet with neck, chicken heart and liver, IUD or isaw, fish balls, kikiam, palitaw, balut, Boy Bawang cornick, taho, fried one-day old chick; skewered grilled chicken gizzard, chicken spleen, and tenga or pork ears
City Of Mandaluyong
City Of Manila - San Miguel Beer, soup No. 5 of Binondo
City Of Marikina - shoes
City Of Pasig
Kalookan City
Las Pinas City
Makati City - Amber's pancit Malabon and pichi-pichi
Malabon City - pancit Malabon
Muntinlupa City
Navotas
Paranaque City
Pasay City
Pateros - balut, salted eggs
Quezon City - La Loma's pares, chicharong bituka, chicharong bulaklak, Lydia's lechon
San Juan
Taguig - inutak (glutinous rice cake specialty, which looks like brain)
Valenzuela City
MARINDUQUE: Arrowroot cookies; Moriones festival; Morion masks
Boac
Buenavista
Gasan
Mogpog
Santa Cruz
Torrijos
OCCIDENTAL MINDORO: - tamaraw-watching
Abra de Ilog
Calintaan
Looc
Lubang
Magsaysay
Mamburao
Paluan - carabao milk pastillas
Rizal
Sablan
San Jose
Santa Cruz
ORIENTAL MINDORO:
Baco
Bansud
Bongabong
Bulalacao (San Pedro)
Calapan City
Gloria
Mansalay
Naujan
Pinamalayan
Pola
Puerto Galera
Roxas
San Teodoro
Socorro
Victoria
PALAWAN: amik - "Tagbanwa good luck doughnut cooked using two wooden spatulas called gagari to spin batter made from ground rice mixed with water; the pointed part at the opposite end of the gagari, the dulay matula, is used to punch a hole in the middle so the amik is cooked through"
Aborlan
Agutaya
Araceli
Balabac
Bataraza
Brooke's Point
Busuanga
Cagayancillo
Coron
Culion
Cuyo
Dumaran
El Nido (Bacuit)
Kalayaan
Linapacan
Magsaysay
Narra
Puerto Princesa City - fresh lobster
Quezon
Rizal (Marcos)
Roxas
San Vicente
Sofronio Espanola
Taytay
ROMBLON: - marble and marble products (grave markers?)
Alcantara
Banton
Cajidiocan
Calatrava
Concepcion
Corcuera
Ferrol
Looc
Magdiwang
Odiongan
Romblon
San Agustin
San Andres
San Fernando
San Jose
Santa Fe
Santa Maria (Imelda)
Thanks to pia.gov.ph for the list. Also to Ivan Henares's blog. Also to this blog: http://blogs.gmanews.tv/joan-bulauitan/archives/14-Whats-the-best-pasalubong.html#comments
Other references:
"After the storm, Ilocos Norte holds festivities" by Rene Guatlo, PDI, 11.08.2009
"Surf's Up! Time to go" by Tina Arceo Dumlao PDI SIM 11.08.2009
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20091119-237073/Flavors-of-Iloilo--and-where-to-find-them Flavors of Iloilo -and where to find them
By Jaymee T. Gamil
Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20091119-237076/Satti-curacha-imbao-salmuera-butong-pie-Zamboangas-specialties
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090408-198604
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/food/food/view/20100204-251154/Sinukmani-kilawing-puso-ng-saging-guinataang-yapyap-matse-Sta-Rosa
To be sorted:
tiratira
Chocnut
Boy Bawang cornick
Sugo dried peanuts
spicy dried pusit
spicy dilis
spicy tuyo in olive oil
siniguelas
jicima
atis
guava
kamatsili
inihaw na manok
'isaw, adidas, IUD, betamax'
bulalo
peanut crackling (?)and peanut-based snack - the one I saw in Colette's
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11 comments:
Just a comment.. KESONG PUTI is product of Sta Cruz Laguna and not in Los Banos though you can also buy it there, FYI there's also a Kesong Puti Festival in SXL. cheers
uy thanks ha
additional......"tinubong" from LAL-LO.CAgayan.....made from glutinous rice,covered by bamboo stem
thanks
Mexico Pampanga - Original San Nicolas Cookies/Panecillos de San Nicolas and Dulce Prenda by Lillian Borromeo. There is also a kapampangan Culinary museum which shows her family's collection of antique kitchenware which she still uses today
tnx for the addition dear. will do the necessary adjustment soon
Pls. tag the ff. to Nueva Vizcaya: Bayombong- Dalanghita (orange) plantations;
Solano and Bagabag - Swine, Poultry, and Cattle industry;
Bambang and Aritao- Upland fruits and vegetables like potatoes, celeries, cabbage, chinese lettuce, carrots, sayote, baguio beans, broccoli.
Kasibu - Tourist attraction for underground river in caves with amazing stalactites and stalagmites; gold and copper mining;
Aritao - Famous for lasona and sibuyas.
Thanks.
Hi, thank you! I sure will.
Please add OTOP for Carigara, Leyte - Pastillas de leche. Delicious pastillas de leche is pure carabao's milk cooked with sugar and wrap in "papel de hapon".
Also abundant are Vinegar and Tuba "bahalina" made from coco nectar.
Ok. Later. Thanks!
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