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Tinapahan Festival – a Special Day for “Tinapa” (Smoked Fish)

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TINAPAHAN FESTIVAL

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The Tinapahan Festival is a 3-day festivity that showcases a trade fair of agro-industrial products, lectures on livestock raising and food processing as well as food demo and competition. – http://www.tourism.gov.ph/sitepages/FestivitiesList.aspx?festivityCode=271&monthCode=04

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Every 14th of May, the people of Lemery Batangas is celebrating their very own “Tinapa Festival”. They dance in the streets in celebration of the feast of the humble smoked fish called the tinapa that fed multitude of peasants and laborers. It is a a three-day affair that showcases a trade fair of agro-industrial products, lectures about livestock raising and food processing, and food demo competition.

The event is held every year to promote the local tinapa industry as well as to boost local tourism industry. – http://greedypeg.org/batangas/Tinapahan-Festival.html

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