Traditional Art

Nanay Patring, the oldest and most successful “tupig” maker of Mangatarem town in
Pangasinan, cooks some of the hundreds of tupig she produces in a day in her shop in
front of her house in the village of Umangan. —RAY ZAMBRANO

MANGATAREM, Pangasinan—At dawn, this town’s oldest and most prolific “tupig”
maker, Patrocenio de Guzman, is already preparing the ingredients she needs for the
hundreds of tupig she will cook for the day.

She would sit on a plastic stool beside a pile of newly opened coconuts and strip off their
white meat with an improvised shredder. Then she would transfer the coconut strips
into a large metal basin and mix these with other ingredients.

Tupig, a popular delicacy in Pangasinan province, is made of ground glutinous rice and
coconut strips wrapped in banana leaves and cooked over charcoal.

"I started with just half a ‘ganta’ (approximately 0.75 kilograms) of glutinous rice,” said
De Guzman, who prefers to be called by her nickname “Patring” because her parents
baptized her using a man’s name.

De Guzman helps her sister-in-law cook tupig to augment the income that her husband
earns as a bus conductor.

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As the locals call her "Nanay Patring", Ms. Patring De Guzman has been making tupig
since 1990 and at present, is now recognized and named as Patring's Special Tupig. A
local delicacy in Pangasinan, tupig can be seen anywhere in the land, whether in town
markets, grocery stores, or even on the road. However, Patring's Special Tupig is
considered on a different level due to its size, unique ingredients, and taste.
Open: 24/7 Monday to Sunday

6Address: Umangan, Mangatarem, Pangasinan

Fee: N/A

References:

https://explora.ph/attraction/499/patring-s-special-tupig

https://www.pinoyadventurista.com › ...

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Traditional Tribes
Contemporary Filipino Artist
 Biography

Pablo Amorsolo was born in Daet, Camarines Norte to husband and wife Pedro
Amorsolo, a book keeper, and Bonifacia Cueto y Vélez. When he was eight years old, his
family moved to Manila.

During World War II, Amorsolo engaged in partisan activities under the Japanese regime
and was said to have gained the rank of Colonel under the Kempeitai. Eventually he was
captured by Filipino troops.

He was sentenced and executed by firing squad in the hands of guerillas. He died in this
manner at Antipolo, Rizal in 1945.

Education

He became an apprentice-painter under the guidance of his uncle, Fabián de la Rosa, an

expert painter. After elementary schooling, Amorsolo studied at the Lyceum of Manila.
He later graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in
1924.

Two years after enrolling as a student at the University of the Philippines, he was
appointed as an assistant-teacher for painting. He taught painting until the arrival of the
Second World War.

Career

Amorsolo was an enthusiast of both classical and modern-day forms of art. During the
1930s, he drew and painted may editorial illustrations for Philippine magazines such as
the Graphic, Tribune, La Vanguardia, Herald, and Manila Times. He became one of the
causes for the rise of the so-called genre art in the Philippines, because he weaved,
through his artistic brush strokes, a wide variety of images that show native and social
scenes and scenarios. He was also a known master of portrait paintings who had the
ability to give life to any individual subject. He painted people from different levels of
society and also from varied age brackets, where he was able to present his ability to
understand the characteristics and personalities of his human subjects. He also created
works that portray themes related to Philippine history. Examples of these are the large
images of Magellan and the Natives and The Discovery of the Philippines. The latter was
painted in 1944.

Unfortunately, most of Amorsolo's paintings were destroyed by a fire that occurred in

1945.

Here are some artworks of Pablo Amorsolo:

Limpia Botas by Pablo Amorsolo, University of Santo Tomas Collection.

Fruit Vendor by Pablo Amorsolo, University of

Santo Tomas Collection.

References

https://alchetron.com/Pablo-Amorsolo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Amorsolo