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Famous Takyong @Nino,Cajel,Borbon,Cebu Takyong sa Borbon Sangka sa Kaha 2014 Published on 11-14-2014 09:30 AM   7   Comments   Tweet Takyong in all its entirety is something not familiar to most but in Borbon it is a very famous staple. For them it is what they call a poor man's food but in France it is otherwise known as a rich man's indulgence, popularly known as escargot. Video from PIO Cebu Province YouTube Page Gracenita Montegrande doing the cooking demo Takyong, Helicostyla daphnis, is a bush snail endemic to Borbon where each of the 19 barangays have their own cultured snail village. Due to the effort of the people of the barangays and the local government officials of Borbon, Mayor Bernard Sepulveda and Vice Mayor Noel Dotillos and the support of the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and the Government of Cebu for pushing this initiative, the simple takyong has now reached a new level of culinary greatness. The re...

Famous Budbud Kabog @Lugo,Borbon,Cebu   Have you pass by barangay Lugo and made a brief stop in front of St. Paul Parish in Lugo by the national road? Well if you haven’t been there yet, you are missing one-fourth of your life. Just kidding!         When you see buses and cars taking a quick stop by the road side, old and young ladies carrying basket of goods, the church by the ‘eskinitas’, you, my friend, are in Lugo already. What is good about this place is the thriving business of our fellow Borbonanons; selling goods like puto cheese, banana chips, boiled eggs, barbecue, etc. But one thing that’s always present in their basket of goods is the famous Budbud Kabog. B arangay Lugo is popular not only because of the Budbud ladies but also because of the importance of its road-side church to road travelers. Right beside St. Paul Church is the road which connects Northeastern Cebu to Northwestern Cebu. In ...