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Discover mung bean desserts in Isabela's Balatong Festival
Discover mung bean desserts in Isabela's Balatong Festival
ABS-CBN News
Published May 20, 2016 01:43 PM PHT
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In San Mateo, Isabela, the mung bean is more than just an ingredient for savory viands, it can be for desserts too.
In San Mateo, Isabela, the mung bean is more than just an ingredient for savory viands, it can be for desserts too.
Featured in their Balatong Festival are renditions of mung bean as desserts.
Featured in their Balatong Festival are renditions of mung bean as desserts.
Locals and tourists lined up for mung bean ice cream, mung bean buchi, and squash-and-mung-bean polvoron.
Locals and tourists lined up for mung bean ice cream, mung bean buchi, and squash-and-mung-bean polvoron.
Aside from products made from 'balatong', vegetables and rice cakes were also sold during the festival.
Aside from products made from 'balatong', vegetables and rice cakes were also sold during the festival.
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'Balatong' is an Ilokano word for the 'munggo' or the mung bean.
'Balatong' is an Ilokano word for the 'munggo' or the mung bean.
San Mateo, Isabela has been tagged as the 'Munggo Capital of the Philippines'
San Mateo, Isabela has been tagged as the 'Munggo Capital of the Philippines'
--with report by Danielle Rebollos, ABS-CBN News
--with report by Danielle Rebollos, ABS-CBN News
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