Puto Festival

Name : Puto Festival
Location: Calasiao, Pangasinan
City: Pangasinan
Country : Region I Ilocos

Held on December 26 to 28,Calasiao, Pangasinan, the occasion

is in

 celebration of the town’s major produce, rice cake (puto). Some of the high

lights

are Best Puto design contest, Best ways to present puto, street dancing and cultural perfor

mances.

The town of Calasiao, aside from being famous for its miraculous shrine

of Señor Divino Tesoro is also touted as the center of “Best Puto” in the country.

It was under Mayor Roy Macanlala in cooperation with the town’s puto makers that the first

Calasiao Puto Festival was held on Dec. 28, 2002.

Puto Calasiao is one of the proof of how Filipinos love to eat rice.

This is a native delicacy of the a town named Calasiao somewhere in Luzon.

This is simply made of Long grain rice soaked in water, ground

and fermented for three days of more, added with just enough sugar to taste

and steamed to perfection! You have a pearly, white Puto Calasiao. You can also top it with

cheese or drizzle it with chocolate syrup for some variation. It is also perfect to be paired with dinuguan.

PUTO GALLERY

It is known for its 100 years “white gold: “cup-shaped, bite-sized, soft rice cakes;

the semi-glutinous rice is fermented in old earthen jars.”

Puto here is considered as the “white gold” of the town and sold

24 hours a day along the rows of stalls at the town proper . It is so delicious because

 this peso-size product is soft as a marshmallow, white as a snow, and has a distinct taste

 and the secrets of cooking it remain unrevealed up to now by its makers.

The event has encouraged Pangasinenses and those living outside to patronize locally made

products.