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.

Bahay Na Bato of La Union

many faces in Bahay na Bato

Luna, La Union. In this remote town of this province you can find one of the tourist destinations being visited by thousands of tourists because of its unique man-made attractions and the millions of pebbles in the beach. Located in western part of north La Union is the tourists hub called Bahay Na Bato or Stone House

The fusion of natural beauty of the nature comprising of the coasts of Luna town that boost the beach of millions of pebbles that decorated the more than 5 kilometer shoreline of  villages here. Then the one of kind collections of arts from the imaginative thinking of the Korean artists who carved many animals and creatures in the unique wood formations, big stones and hardened lime stones.

wood carving

The arts of stone sculpture that carve many things like artistic formed of faces, animals like head of gorilla, crustaceans among others.

head of gorilla

Also the wood carvings from dried roots and trunks of a tree that sculpted to an artistic heads of dragons, grottos and other religious images and other animals.

head of the dragon

The latest attractions are the antique collections of things used by farmers, fishermen, carpenters, World War 2 memorabilia and many more.

 You think you can spend your 1 hour of roaming and enjoying the moment in Bahay Na Bato? Think again. Your two hours might not enough for you and roam around the not so wide area of this venue. Besides, many of things here are really appreciable and a mere seeing and touching them is not enough. You have to know the stories of each art in the park.

So, if you love nature and arts, gas your car for one hour ride from national highway of Bangar and enjoy the arts and beach pebbles.###