Tupig

Do you know tupig?

Its one kind of rice delicacies Ilocano love to have for special occasions. Its made from glutinous rice added with young coconut milk, red sugar and wrapped with wilted coconut leaf in elongated form.

Different towns different tastes and ways of cooking. One place I truly love their tupig is the town of Luna of La Union province.

I always buy tupig being cooked and sold along the way. You can see the vendors cooking the tupig in their traditional way by being place the made tupig atop the fire or charcoal. The wilted banana is dried in heat and will be removed when the food is truly cook.

And inside the banana leaf is the brown and delicious rice delicacy that really taste good with the brown glutinous rice and the brown sugar. The coconut is young meat. And because it was done in the street you know its freshly bake. In fact you can buy while its hot.

And its cheap. Its good to have it as merienda while enjoying the beautiful tourist attractions of the are like the Bahay na Bato or the pebble beach.