"Delicacies of Pampanga" Province of Pampanga Things to Do Tip by cynganda

Food to try:
1. Pampanga Longganisa - 2 kinds: 1 is soury in taste and the best come from Arayat and the other kind "hamonado" in taste like the skinless type
2. Boboto - like the Mexican Tamales (a town near Sta. Ana is called Mexico)
3. Bringe (sounds like bring he) - green rice, this is actually glutunous thick rice with bits of chicken and other meat cooked in coconut milk.
4. Buro - fermented fish or shrimp with rice, soury in taste (eaten similarly like bagoong), best eaten with fried hito (mudfish)
5. Camaro (this is not a car but a food delicacy) - it's an insect similar to cricket, but this is clean and delicious due taken from the rice fields and cooked as adobo, a little crunchy but unique in taste. Not available all year round.
6. Gatas Damulag (Carabao's Milk) - by tradition, mixed with steamed or fried rice with salt added for taste, rice must be very wet with milk to be very tasteful.
7. Hot chocolate drink - made with ground cacao (cocoa) roasted with peanuts with milk and sugar. Best way to enjoy it, must be served hot and bubbly (use of the "batirol" or wooden beater). It's the bubbles that count.
8. Tibuk-tibok (heartbeat) - this is an almost white "kakanin" made of ground thick rice mixed with carabao's milk. It's so tender that a slight movement on this delicacy makes it appear like tiny heartbeats thus the name. The best is found at Susie's Cuisine in Nepo in Angeles City and also in San Fernando.

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