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REGION 4A CALABARZON RIZAL, PROVINCE

A. FOOD AND CULTURE: OTHER NORMS, PRACTICES AND ISSUES SURROUNDING FOOD a1. Food ethics/etiquettes Rizaleños treasures their traditions which is why eating “KAKANIN” is still a hit. Suman is popular during Sundays, especially in Antipolo and on special occasions such as fiestas and festivals.It is one of the foods that should not be missed in special holiday or occasion, because they believed that Suman strengthens your belief and keep the family get together, more upcoming celebrations together. And because kakanin has a sticky texture so to them it symbolizes the nondisintegration of the family.

a2. Food principles They prefer their food natural and healthy. Their food is mostly light and light-tasting because they don’t use too much salt and prefer natural and organic ingredients. They always tend to assure the cleanliness of their food and of course its quality. The ingredients must be put correctly in a dish which they even inherited from their great ancestors. Rizal’s delicacies such as kakanin has similarities to Quezon considering that there are also a lot of kakanin in Quezon province.

a3. Food habits Rizaleños began their morning with breakfast that consists of rice, daing, silog, egg, bread and coffee, just like a typical Filipino breakfast (they don’t really have a typical breakfast). Since Rizal’s source of living are farming, thus, fish, several types of seafoods, vegetables, fruits and meat (particularly native ducks) is a usual part of their everyday meal. They are also fund of having sawsawan or condiments in dining tables. They like eating on banana leaves & like using coconuts to their dishes. They also eat with bare hands, after all, that is really part of Filipino culture to eat with your hands. And because Rizaleños are family-centered and respectful, they tend to eat together.

a4. Traditional food and dishes Minaluto is a traditional dish from Angono, Rizal. It is their local version of Spanish paella. Its rice served with fried pork, chicken adobo, and sea food such as squid, shrimp, prawn, mussels and crab, salted egg and various vegetables such as kangkong, eggplant and okra. Beef lauya soup, a sweet version of nilaga, is akin to traditional bulalo recipes but in Taytay, Rizal they uses achuete and cinnamon. Also they have the traditional dish called barutak or shrimp sinigang. It is also called pinugutan because the shrimp heads is removed and pounded, with the juice added to the broth. Ripe sampaloc is the souring agent of this recipe. Ginataang kuhol, hito, dalag, sinabawang balut and kinulob na itik are some of the traditional foods that you can also find in Rizal. While Antipolo, the capital city of Rizal are well-known for their suman

and cashew products. Cainta, also in Rizal, is also known for its rice cakes and puddings. These are usually topped with latik, a mixture of coconut milk and brown sugar reduced to a crumbly texture.

a5. Traditional eating patterns Just like other provinces, they eat three big meals and several smaller ones in between (referred to as merienda) In JalaJala they usually eat pinikpik made in cassava, brown sugar, salt and star margarine/butter or oil, partnered with coffee.

a6. Current food practices

B. HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS Rizal Province Day This special non-working day celebrated every June 11 in the province of Rizal, marks the celebration of its founding anniversary. Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception/City’s Fiesta Day Parishioners, mostly residents of Antipolo City, flocked to the Shrine of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage to hear mass on the feast day of the Immaculate Conception celebrated every December 8, a holy day of obligation for all Catholics. Residents of Antipolo City observe their city fiesta also on December 8 every year.

C. TRADITIONAL HEALTH BENEFITS

D. DANCES AND FESTIVALS Binalayan Festival

Binangonan as a nestle of lake “lawa” and bamboo “kawayan” introduces to the world its “BINAngonan sa LAwa at kawaYAN“ or “BINALAYAN” Festival which mirrored its various historic, pulsating and highly entertaining celebration which showcases bamboo products and other marine merchandises exclusively made at the leading edge of Binangonan’s culture and economy.

Hane Festival

The annual Hane Festival is the commemoration of the Municipality of Tanay’s Founding Anniversary. It is an agri – eco – tourism, arts, and cultural exhibition in one, showcasing Tanay’s vibrant tourism, abundant agricultural produce, healthy and sustainable environment, rich arts and culture, and amiable people. It derived its name from an ordinary expression of Tanayan (‘’hane’’) which is used to seek one’s agreement. “Hane” exclusively identifies with Tanay. For this reason, the expression “Hane” has been adopted as the name of the Tanay’s first ever tourism and cultural celebration: the Tanay Hane Festival.

Higantes Festival

The annual town’s fiesta of Angono held every 23rd of November is a celebration in honor of San Clemente, patron saint of fishermen. The main event is a procession of the patron saint, which is carried by male devotees, convoyed by “pahadores” (devotees dressed in colorful local costumes or fishermen’s clothes, wooden shoes and carrying boat paddles, fish nets, traps, etc.). Adding to the festivity is the “Higantes” (giants). Higantes are giant paper mache images measuring four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. The street event leads to a fluvial procession in Laguna de Bay, however, the festivities continue until the image is returned to its sanctuary.

Maytime Festival The city and its residents here are all set to welcome once again the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who come to this city to pay homage to the Nuestra Senora dela Paz y Buenviaje (Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage), whose centuries old image is enshrined at the cathedral made into its national shrine here. May 1 signals the start of the Maytime Festival and the influx of many people visiting the city to reach the church. Welcoming them last Monday were street dancers garbed in native Tagalog-inspired costumes and moving to the tune of “Tayo na sa Antipolo,” a song composed by Gerry San Jose or Gerry Brandy in 1929 and popularized later by the Mabuhay Singers.

Kakanin Festival

The kakanin has its day in Rizal Province. It happens on September 9, when native rice delicacies like the suman and the kalamay are paraded down the streets of San Mateo during the yearly Kakanin Festival. On regular days, the kakanin are sold in marketplaces around the town. On fiesta day, however, the kakanin are given away for free. The Kakanin Festival is a recently introduced folk-religious holiday. It was officially initiated by the Catholic Church in the late 1990s. But in tradition and essence, the festival celebrates rice harvest and the feast day of San Mateo’s patroness –Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu.

Rodeo Festival

The Tanay Rodeo Festival aims to promote and market the town’s cattle and agri-eco tourism not only within the municipality but also in the CALABARZON region, the Municipal Government of Tanay holds Tanay Rodeo every third week of January each year. The festival is also in line with the celebration of Tanay Town Fiesta. It is participated by professionals and rodeo enthusiasts, and veterinary/animal science students from renowned universities in the country.

Kaluskos Festival Bamboo Arches are traditionally used in different celebrations like town’s fiesta, weddings, anniversaries and other important events of the year in Cardona. This kind of folk art is made of bamboos decorated and crafted by craftsman. Making this arch needs a skillful worker or group of workers using sharp bolos for ornaments and designs of the bamboos before forming into arch. This artistry in Cardona has been part of the town’s culture and tradition.It was named “Kaluskos ng Kawayan”. This name was derived from squeaky sounds produced when making the arch, like hissing f the snake, cockling chickens etc. And from then, the town celebrate Kaluskos Bamboo Arch Festival every first week of December....