A sign at the boundary intrigued him claiming San Mateo is a child-friendly municipality:
welcome sign of San Mateo town. Notice the 343 kilometer sign post near it.We research led to this webpage for "having won the 2007 Presidential Awards for Child-Friendly Municipality Regional Search – 1st to 3rd Class."
All that Tutubi knows about San Mateo is that they take pride in their mongo [mungbean] production and uniquely peach-orange itlog na maalat [salted eggs] colored with achuete. The salted eggs are said to be not too salty with yellow yolk. Tutubi was able to bring home a few kilos of mongo for his mommy but wasn't able to get samples of sa town's salted eggs due to "memory gap."
wow, i love munggo and salted eggs, never knew there's a town in isabela that takes pride in them until i read this post of yours. thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteedelweiza, too bad forgot about the salted eggs. will try get samples if my friend goes back there.
ReplyDeleteChild friendly is good. All environments should be child friendly.
ReplyDeleteTotally good place to live in... I miss mah place... Evadnella... ^_^
ReplyDeleteim erwin,from one of the must proud barangay,SINAMAR NORTE,where people are good,nice,and intelligent.come visit us especially on our munggo festival,summer time and relly you will enjoy your vacation here.
ReplyDeletewill somebody tell me how can i get to san mateo,isabela from manila?
ReplyDeletewow!i am proud with my municipality...
ReplyDeletei love salted egg,,,it is one of my favorite,
and also the munggo,especially when we made the butsi-butsi.hehehe...that the filling is the munggo..LOVE IT!!!
Isabela is my hometown!
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