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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.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.Aside from products made from &#x27;balatong&#x27;, vegetables and rice cakes were also sold during the festival.&#x27;Balatong&#x27; is an Ilokano word for the &#x27;munggo&#x27; or the mung bean.San Mateo, Isabela has been tagged as the &#x27;Munggo Capital of the Philippines&#x27;<div>--with report by Danielle Rebollos, ABS-CBN News</div>

In San Mateo, Isabela, the mung bean is more than just an ingredient for savory viands. Featured in their Balatong Festival are renditions of mung bean as desserts.

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Discover mung bean desserts in Isabela's Balatong Festival

Discover mung bean desserts in Isabela's Balatong Festival

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Published May 20, 2016 01:43 PM PHT

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