BAGUIO CITY(PIA)–Two young local chefs from Mountain Province triumphed in the recently concluded 2024 Mangan Taku Food and Wine Cookfest held at the Rose Garden, Burnham Park, Baguio City.
Bauko’s Tamtam Café chef Harry Osboken was awarded first place for his “Dawdaw Pihing ya Pinakpak”. This dish, slowly cooked in a clay pot, is a combo of “dawdaw” or smoked meat, “pihing” (taro plant), and “pinakpak” composed of rice, vegetables, and root crops.
Osboken said his dish is a Cordilleran flavor revered because of its health benefits.
“Our dish is a trinity of three essential food components- Go, Grow and Glow- which are highly valued by the Cordilleran community for their nutritional benefits. Cordilleran cuisine is known for its healthy and nutritious traditional dishes that incorporate starch, protein and glow foods” he shared.
He also won fourth in the Wine Mixology Competition featuring his innovative concoction “Simsim ya Teek.”
Tamtam Café chef Harry Osboken shares to a judge how his dish is made during the Mangan Taku Cookfest held at the Rose Garden, Burnham Park. His dish called “Dawdaw Pihing ya Pinakpak”, an innovation of Mountain Province gastronomy won first place. (Photo by Bauko Tourism)
Chef Jaypee Lawilao of Silverwood from Sabangan clinched the second spot in the cookfest for his “Sinigtimang Pork Lechon”.
His dish, lechon mixed with sayote tops, and “sigtim”(a fermented rice wine) stands as his municipality’s commitment to innovation.
Lechon is one of Sabangan’s featured food during the Gagayam Festival due to the abundancy of pork. This highlights the rural communities’ ability to thrive in the evolving gastronomy.
“Laydek ay ibugabugaw han palalo ay layad ya ragsak sin badang ya suporta “ Lawilao shared in a post. (I would like to voice my extreme love and happiness for the help and support.)
The Mangan Taku Cookfest and Cordillera Wine Mixology highlight authentic, traditional and innovative food creations, which represents local and indigenous knowledge in the Cordilleras.
The event was organized by the Department of Tourism-CAR, in partnership with other line agencies.(CVBT-PIA CAR)
Silverwood’s chef Jaypee Lawilao brings “Sinigtimang Pork Lechon” in the 2024 Mangan Taku Cookfest held in Baguio City. Winning second place, this dish is representation of Sabangan’s innovation to food. (Photo by Sabangan LGU)
