CSFWIS tugak festival street dance

The San Fernando Frog Festival

 takes place in Pampanga in The Philippines.

As part of its aim to preserve the Kapampangan culture,

the City of San Fernando, Pampanga

organizes the Piestang Tugak to promote

 the various frog traditions of the province.

Events include the paduasan –

a frog catching competition using traditional methods,

various culinary events featuring Pampanga's unique frog cuisine 

such as betute or stuffed frog, and the frog olympics –

 fun games for young people.

To celebrate further, City of San Fernando Pampanga

conducts a frog mascot contest .

Frog olympics

This event includes various of activities such as longest jump

 (jumping like a frog) , dressing up your frog competition

 and of course frog race. 

Fried Farm Frog recipe is a deep fried frog in cooking oil.

 One of the exotic dishes in the Philippines.

Betute (Fried Frog stuffed with ground pork)

This is one of the Kapampangan exotic foods which is served during the Frog Festival.

Betute is basically deep fried stuffed frogs.

 Kapampangans show pride with their betute because of its uniqueness.

This can be attributed to the fact that the frogs they use

 as main ingredient for this delicacy are rice field frogs, which eat small insects.

These are actually larger than the normal frogs

that are sold for food in most wet markets.

However, smaller sized frogs are still good enough to make betute.

Paduasan

 is a competition in catching frogs wherein the contestants

use a traditional way of catching frogs. 

Before in the early days, when the rain comes,

while the elders are planting rice the kids would catch frogs.

 This practice eventually evolved into a

 specialized technique and skill.

In performing padausan, the person uses paduas

 which is a bamboo rod. A worm called bulateng tudtud

or sleeping worm is attached in the end of the string.

 When the frog bites it, its tongue gets entangled with the worm

 and the person will be able to hurl up

 the frog in the air and let it fall in the net which is

called panyapu.