SAGADA COFFEE(GROUND ARABICA COFFEE)

Pidlisan coffee is known to be the best in Mountain Province.

Every homestead in the community grows ARABICA COFFEE with the typica strain.

The coffee is carefully roasted with wood embers and then pound in stone mortars into granules.

Since then, drinking brewed coffee

on cold mornings of Mountain Province is an experience that shouldn’t be missed.

lolokisen(maligcong sweet orange)

MALIGCONG , an upland village of Bontoc, is not just famous for its scenic rice terraces. It is also a showcase of an integrated farm of

citrus. They grow multiple variety of sweet oranges.

Tourists can visit the orchards and when the oranges are ripe,

it would be exciting to pick and eat fresh oranges for free,

however you pay for the oranges that you bring home.

linapet(besao rice cake)

In Gueday, Besao, Mountain Province, the agricultural calendar of each year commence when a ray of the sun at sunrise transcends from a rock on top of a mountain and

directly strikes at the tip of a pyramidal stone by the village ato. When this happens, the chieftain sits by the

stone and declare “KASILAPET”. This marks the start of the new season which is celebrated to thank the bounty of the preceding season and to pray for another productive year. During this occasion, the village people feast on

their traditional rice cake called “LINAPET”.

Ingredients: locally grown sticky rice, ground peanut and salt

PATOPAT(BONTOC rice cake)

This indigenous rice cake wrapped in coned banana leaves

is served with brewed coffee by the Bontoc people

during community gatherings, reunions and thanksgiving.

Ingredients: locally grown sticky rice, coconut milk, and raw sugar