PANGASINAN DISHES

PANGASINAN DISHES (PANGASINENSE DISHES)




PIGAR-PIGAR

Strips of beef, stir-fried with cabbage, make up this quintessential Pangasinense dish—perfect with beer but can also be eaten as a viand—that’s also widely available on street stalls at night along Galvan Street in Dagupan City.



BANGUS

Pangasinan prides itself for its bangus (milkfish). There are supposedly 101 ways to prepare this locally grown fish (from the familiar dried, steamed, smoked, sinigang, and ceviche, to the unconventional lumpia, steak, laing, and teriyaki). Every April, Dagupan celebrates its Bangus Festival, usually with a bangus cookout on the city’s streets.



PUTO CALASIAO

Puto or sweet bite-sized rice cakes which now come in flavors such as ube, strawberry, mango, and pandan is the product of the town of Calasiao. The most popular puto stalls are found in front of the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral at the town plaza.

pangasinan

Pangasinan is a province 250 kilometers north on Manila. The province is bordered by the provinces of Zambales and Tarlac on the south, Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija to the east, La Union on the north and the Lingayen Gulf to the west. The name Pangasinan was derived from the word "asin" or salt due to Pangasinan's vast salt making industry. The province is also a major producer of mangoes, rice, milkfish and bamboo handicrafts.

TOURIST SPOTS IN PANGASINAN 

The Hundred Islands National Park is situated in Alaminos City, Pangasinan. Also known as “Kapulo-puloan” or “Taytay-Bakes,” these little Islands are one of the most magnificent natural geological formations in the Philippines.

The islands are dispersed along the Lingayen Gulf and have a total land area of 1,844 hectares or 18.44 square kilometers. There are 124 islands here but one gets submerged in water during high tide. 

   

 In the early part of the 18th century, Dasol was just a part of a municipality which today comprises the municipalities of Mabini, Burgos and Dasol.

Dasol got its name from a medicinal herb called “dosol” which abounds in the area.  The plants have oval leaves and green in color, which was commonly used to cure infected wounds.  The Spaniards hardly pronounced “DOSOL” when spoken. The word sounded “DASOL”.  It became its official name when it was created as a municipality. 

Our Lady of Manaoag (formal title: Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Manaoag; Spanish: Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario de Manaoag) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in Manaoag, Pangasinan, the Philippines.

The title's associated image, which is supposedly miraculous, is enshrined inside the church. The statue is a 17th-century ivory image of the Virgin Mary carrying the child Jesus and was brought to the Philippines from Spain via the Manila galleon from Acapulco by a priest named Juan de San Jacinto.
Documents dating back to 1610 attest that a middle-aged farmer walking home heard a mysterious female voice. He looked around and saw on a cloud-veiled treetop an apparition of the Virgin Mary, holding a rosary in her right hand and the Child Jesus in her left arm, all amidst a heavenly glow. Mary told the farmer where she wanted her church to be built, and a chapel was built on the hilltop site of the apparition, forming the nucleus of the present .