PANGASINAN OTOP products

PANGASINAN:
Agno
Aguilar
Alaminos City
Alcala
Anda
Asingan
Balungao
Bani
Basista
Bautista
Bayambang - freshwater fish; fermented fish (buro, mulantong); Indian mangoes; grilled glutinous corn
Binalonan - unas dried fish
Binmaley
Bolinao
Bugallon
Burgos
Calasiao - glutinous putolets; bocayo
Dagupan City - Bonuan bangus, boneless bangus and other bangus products
Dasol
Infanta
Labrador
Laoac
Lingayen - bagoong, salt (why not make this into gourmet salt?), bocayo, tuyo, pinakbet
Mabini
Malasiqui
Manaoag - mango pickles
Mangaldan - Romana's peanut brittle
Mangatarem
Mapandan
Natividad
Pozorrubio
Rosales - tupig
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
Villasis

LA UNION OTOP products

LA UNION: - dried espada fish
Agoo
Aringay
Bacnotan
Bagulin
Balaoan - snorkeling/coral reef exploration
Bangar
Bauang
Burgos
Caba
Luna
Naguilian
Rosario
San Fernando City (Capital)
San Gabriel
San Juan - surfing
Santo Tomas
Santol
Sudipen
Tubao

ILOCOS SUR OTOP products

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, 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

ILOCOS NORTE OTOP products

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 (?)
Adams;
Bacarra - Farmer's Festival, Bacarra Church and Bell Tower Ruins
Badoc - lighthouse tour
Bangui
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
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

Sariaya muffin

A kind of muffin from Sariaya, Quezon. Sarap!

New finds

Cheding's toasted peanuts
Kinihad
Lubid-lubid
Kwakoy

Pan de Aleman, Sariaya, Quezon

Hey I discovered old new products that strike me as native Philippine.


Pan de Aleman? German bread? Is there such a thing? We call the tasty bread pan de Americano. This is pan de Aleman. Ho-kay.

Chokey and chalky

This is what they call “araro” cookie in Bataan. All along, I thought it’s called uraro.

In Marinduque, they have an interesting variety called arrowroot cookie, which is brownish, sandy, and flavored differently. Arrowroot? I wondered what it's made of, and reading the ingredients list, I saw "arrowroot flour." I suppose arrowroot is a plant, and this Wikipedia entry convinces me it's something that's indeed edible.

Once upon a time, there was only puto seko as the definitive extra-crumbly cookie in this side of town.

I've tried the simple round milky uraro of Laguna and the pure-white sampaguita uraro of Pampanga. They are smaller versions of the puto-seko.

Eating this type of cookie is like eating hardened unsifted flour -- raw. The cookie is sweet, chalky, chokey, even cough-inducing. When masticated, it turns pasty. It is dangerous fun. One needs to have a bottle of water on standby.

What captures my attention, though, is that the cookie can be made into a wonderful shape as in the above photo. It can be made into an art. If marketed in the right packaging, this cookie could easily be a global product.