NUEVA ERA




         A two hours trip is on my way, looking at the windows, I saw this beautiful spot. it's been a month since i haven't visit my mother's home town. Nueva Era is a third class and second largest municipality (in terms of land area) in the province of Ilocos NortePhilippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 7,837 people. Nueva Era is politically subdivided into 11 barangays, and my mother was from Cabittauran.
           I interviewed my uncle who is the late secretary of the mayor, Mayor. Aldrin Garvida. Tito Edgar Bringas told me that one of their famous dishes is from the meat of wild boar "alingo" in iloco, it is found at their mountains. They hunt it for living, after slaughtering it, they slice the meat, then dry it for a few days, afterwards, the met is alredy done and dry. This is very expensive when it comes to cost, but it is delicious. It can be cook with sarsa or with soup. I tried the Alingo on soup, or Lauyang Alingo, simply with ginger and garlic, it is very plain but the taste is delicious regardless on the smell. They love eating exotic foods like frogs they fry it, adobo and tinola, they also serve adobong "banyas". it taste like chicken. You have to try this food when you visit nueva era especially at rural areas where mountains are near.

This is their Lauyang Alingo
       They discover their dish a very long time ago, because of their place filled with mountains that's why hunting is very popular when it comes to their living, they dry flesh of the wild boar because they don't have electricity before, they use the sun to preserve their food, or sometimes by salting or by grilling it then they will stock it. Some foreigners or balikbayan, often order this "alingo" to complete their vacation at Nueva era, and they enjoy eating it.
-Amano

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