Sunday, August 14, 2016

CALASIAO: Yummy Puto Festival

TELL ME WHAT YOU EAT, AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


PUTO

In a province, its so nice to wake up early with your family. Taking Pinoy breakfast consists of puto, tsokolate or kapeng barako in a cold or rainy morning. Its an instant good vibes after Pinoy breakfast, isn't it? Nowadays, puto is already have a lots of color variety, it has a color of yellow, green, violet and the brown one which is PUTO KUTSINTA. 

PUTO Man


PUTO CALASIAO is one of the proof of how Filipinos love to eat rice. It is a native delicacy of Calasiao in Pangasinan. It is made of a long grain rice or glutinous rice(malagkit) soaked in water, feremented and ground for three days, added with sugar and steam for its perfection.







Philippine Flag made of PUTO
Yearly at the month of December from 26-28, in Calasiao Pangasinan is the celebration of PUTO FESTIVAL that the town major produces, the rice cakes(PUTO).  


BEST PUTO DESIGN is one of the highlights of PUTO FESTIVAL.






SIDE TRIP: Take or bring home some tasty and delicious variants of PUTO CALASIAO. The vendor strip is located is next to Parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul.  The plain puto is cost of Php 20 per 1/4 kilo while the puto with cheese is Php 25 per 1/4 kilo. 



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