A WEEK after Angono’s Higantes Festival, festive mood skipped Taytay and made a weeklong stop-over in the municipality of Cainta as the town celebrated its annual Sumbingtik Festival.
Taking center stage are local native delicacies suman, bibingka and latik, said Cainta Mayor Elen Nieto as she boasted of the town’s ability to preserve centuries old culinary tradition embarking on what she referred to as ‘kakanin.’
Unlike any other fiesta which top bills the famous lechon on the table, Cainta residents – especially those from Barangay Sto. Niño – are serving healthy foods which according to Mayor Nieto are the very reasons why foreign and local tourists have been visiting Cainta.
“From it looks the real crowd-drawer is our authentic suman, bibingka and latik,” she said.
Sumbingtik is coined from from the town’s native delicacies suman, bibingka, and latik.
Food-Derived Decors
Except during the pandemic when the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) imposed a nationwide restriction on gatherings, the local government said in a statement that they have never missed sponsoring the annual house decoration contest.
The competition embarks on a search for the best-decorated facade – with a twist. Decors should be made from the ingredients and other materials which have something to do in preparing the native delicacies.
“Coconut, coconut husks and suman wrapper or leaves, among other stuff for as long as it qualifies as derivative, byproduct or recycled from the ingredients,” the mayor added.
With a set of criteria in place, this year’s Sumbingtik House grand winner got P100,000 cash prize.
Extremely Busy Week
Aside from the search for the best-decorated Sumbingtik House, the local government also pulled off the Fun-Run Color Cainta, Ms. Gay Queen 2023, One Cainta Bikers Fun Ride, Youth Can Dance, Grand Float Parade and the Musicfest.
Despite an extremely busy week which compelled the local chief executive to impose traffic rerouting, road closures and suspension of onsite transactions at the municipal compound at around noon of November 30, Nieto clarified that the local government has kept its online transactions for real property tax and health certificates through its official portal – cainta.gov.ph .
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. earlier declared December 1 – the founding anniversary of Cainta – a special non-working holiday.
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