Do Know "Tupig" Delicacy?
By @acelawrites
@acelawrites (19272)
Philippines
June 28, 2016 8:57pm CST
"Tupig" is a local glutinous rice recipe in the Northern Philippines.
It is made up of sticky rice, young coconut, coconut milk and sugar, rolled in banana leaves. It is then roasted in burning coals until it is done.
Whenever someone goes to the Northern Luzon, I always ask for "tupig" as "pasalubong," (welcome gift).
This morning I saw the "tupig" vendor and I bought some for my family. The vendor sells tupig every Wednesday in our wet market. She said she is from Northern Luzon but married a man from our place, so we also have "tupig" here though we are far from NorthernLuzon.
Do you have native delicacies from a particular place which you like?
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@Yar_Joey (3271)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
@acelawrites Yes I tasted that that is why I like it. If and when I go to northern Philippines, for sure I will buy for myself. Hahahaha!
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
Hope you can taste it too. It is also being sold in Pangasinan, also in Northern Philippines.
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@rina110383 (24492)
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29 Jun 16
I like tupig. I prefer this native delicacy over the suman.
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@cacay1 (83577)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
25 Jun 17
@rina110383 , really? I thought it has the same taste as in suman. Can we buy this on line?
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
Me too, I don't like suman (sticky rice roll) because it makes my stomach acidic; but tupig is just alright.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
Yes, my friend, I don't know the other names for it. I just fell in love with it when I bought it a long time ago in Ilocos Norte.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
29 Jun 16
I told you , we have exactly the same type of food habits.
Here sometimes the mixture is put inside bamboo and then roasted, also in banana leaves and steamed.
The sticky rice is available also especially December and January.
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@cacay1 (83577)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
25 Jun 17
@acelawrites , Nice, they differ in some steps only.
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
So true, we have the same food habits. They also put the sticky rice with coconut milk inside a bamboo then roast it. Maybe we got it from you or you from us? There is a place here near Metro Manila that was used to be a village where early people from India lived. It is near Laguna Lake, and they say they were traders who lived and remarried Filipinas here.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
2 Jul 16
@acelawrites we could trace our family trees:)
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
I don't know there's buko pie in Northern Philippines? I know it is famous in Los Banos, Laguna.Nice to know about it. Also one of my family's favorites.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
@gichrys I love that province; had visited it several times so long ago.
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@gichrys (100)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
@acelawrites yes there is in nueva vizcaya. But I think the buko pie in laguna is much better.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
So nice to know about it. Thanks, @skysnap .
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@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
29 Jun 16
Oh...Sweet....A good stuff to eat when I visit Philippines. Here there are certain stuff, but it is dificult to name even some of them. Varieties of tastes, races, religions, groups, stuff, likes and dislikes..It appears to me that the whole world means INDIA OLY.
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@cacay1 (83577)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
25 Jun 17
@shivamani10 When I was in New Zealand, I like to dine in Indian fast foods. I like Indian foods,
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
29 Jun 16
Yes, it is your opinion. Thanks, hope you can taste it when you visit our country.
