Join the Yummy Budbod Kabog Festival and Savor This Delicacy

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BUDBOD KABOG FESTIVAL

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February 10, 2010 – Catmon Cebu celebrates its 175th fiesta anniversary in honor of the patron San Guillermo de Aquitania. One of the big highlights of the celebration is the town famous festival, “Budbod Kabog Festival”. Budbod Kabog is one of the specialty products that can only be taste in Catmon Cebu.

“Kabog” is a small-seeded cereal plant known as millet and grew wild in abundance Catmon’s mountains, especially in Barangay Agsuwao. Other specialty products that describing the grain “kabog” are bibingkang kabog, bikong kabog, kabog valenciana, bibingka, coconut balls, peanut brittle, empanadita and many more.

The Budbod Kabog Festival is a festival showcasing the whole process of producing the delicious specialty. The dancers are dressed in a cultural/ethnic attire and show eight basic bodbud dance steps. Read More: http://cebufestivals.blogspot.com/2010/02/budbod-kabog-festival-2010.html#.WXV-_emQxaQ

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The town of Catmon in the north is well-known for a delicacy that has reached other places in the archipelago. It is made from seeds of a plant that is abundant in the area, millet grass. The seeds are cooked with sugar and coconut milk before they are wrapped in banana leaves to produce the now famous budbud kabog.

The budbud kabog was first sold by Catmon residents at the tollbooth on the Naghalin Bridge. While people from other places in the country also make the budbud kabog, these people are supposedly the relatives of the residents of Catmon. Due to this, the delicacy actually originated from Catmon.

The budbud kabog is also the inspiration of the annual Budbud Kabog Festival of Catmon. The festival is celebrated every February 10 of each year. Read More: http://www.peanutbrowas.com/blog/celebrating-the-budbud-kabog-festival-of-catmon

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With the declaration of Cebu as the festival capital of the country and the desire of the Local Government Unit of Catmon to boost tourism and further promote the native delicacy “Budbod Kabog”, the municipality has decided to rename and reformat the Sadsaran Festival to “Budbod Kabog” Festival. Except for the incorporation of activities intended to promote the natural delicacy, the festival retains the Sadsaran format which entertained people for the past long years. The ‘Budbod Kabog” Festival as envisioned and conceptualized does not replace or delete Sadsaran but instead it has enriched it with more festive and substantive activities. Read More: http://catmoncebu.tripod.com/the-budbod-kabog-festival-of-catmon.html

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