Tinu-om Festival
Cabatuan, Iloilo
Tinu-om Festival is held every 1st week of September located in Cabatuan, Iloilo. It is a celebration of the town's history and its popularly craved delicacy, tinuom made of native chicken souped with spices - tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, and lemon grass and wrapped in banana leaves. This festival is one of the highlights of the 10-day fiesta celebration of the municipality and is a colorful ...
explosion of music and dances. There are competing groups (called tribes or "tribu" in the local dialect) composed of students from six secondary schools in Cabatuan.
Tinu-om Festival News
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Street Dancing Tinuom Festival Cabatuan Iloilo
The town of Cabatuan in central Iloilo is holding a Tinuom Festival as a prelude to its patronal fiesta on September 10. Street dancing and a search for Tinuom queen are some of the activities during the festival.
Tinuom is a way of cooking where the ingredients are wrapped in a leaf, preferably banana leaf. The wrapped mix is them cooked over boiling water. The resulting cooked food is also called tinuom.
Currently, when one talks about tinuom, he means chicken cooked the tinuom way. So much so that people from other places thought tinuom nga manok is the specialty of the people of Caba ...