About Everything: Hometown Products of San Fabian

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."

- DOROTHY DAY

San Fabian is a first class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. In Pangasinan, San Fabian is called as " BALEY NA SAN FABIAN" while in Ilocano they call it "Lii ti San Fabian". The town has 34 barangays all in all.

Along the highway of San Fabian, you can see a lot of bundled of coconuts or copra tree as it was planted by the townpeople of San Fabian, Pangasinan. Those green colored big nuts or also known as coconuts is the proudly assets of people of San Fabian.

TUBA (Coconut Vinegar)

If you are coming from Baguio or La Union, you will pass Barangay Tocok in San Fabian. The people in Barangay Tocok are the ones who made the tuba. There are many stores that is located at the highway of Barangay Tocok who is selling a lots of plastic bottled of tuba made by tuba wine maker.

Tuba wine makers will cut the stem of the coconut tree where they attached. It is more better if the trees are with flowers and they will extracted the juice from those stems so that is the reason why everyone and even foreigner enjoys the TUBA in San Fabian.

Those tuba in plastic bottles are sell in different size of the bottles. For small bottles of tuba, it is cost of Php 70-100 while those big bottles of tuba is Php 160-200 per bottles.

Tuba is usually used for making kinilaw, sawsawan for lumpia, barbecue, singkamas or other that needs tuba vinegar.

The tuba has many benefits for us. It can low on the glycemic index which tuba is a food appropriate for a person that has a diabetes. as it lowers your glycemic index by only 35 on the scale. Tuba is also rich in minerals. The sap of the coconut vinegar or tuba contains phosphorous, potassium, iron, magnesium, sulfur, boron zinc, manganese and copper. And last it contains Amino acids

TUPIG

TUPIG

Another one product of Barangay Tocok San Fabian, Pangasinan is no other than TUPIG, A native delicacy of San Fabian, Tupig is made of coconut meat that is shredded into thin coconut meats, glutinous rice, margarine, brown sugar, coconut milk and banana leaves. One piece of tupig is Php 3.00 only.

DRIED FISH

You can see many dried fish stalls in the highway of Barangay Cayanga after you will pass by the Cayanga bridge. You can buy many dried fish like tuyo (proudly product of San Fabian), daing na bangus, tilapia, dried pusit or squid, dilis and a lot more of dried fish.