The SumBingTik Festival is an annual cultural festival held on December 1 in

Cainta, Rizal Cainta, officially the Municipality of Cainta ( fil, Bayan ng Cainta, ), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 376,933 people. It is one of the oldest municipalit ...

. The festival starts on the feast day of Cainta's first patron saint, Saint Andrew the Apostle, on November 30, and continues on the day of the town's founding anniversary and feast of Our Lady of Light, the principal

patron saint A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or perso ...

of the town, which is celebrated on December 1. The festival was first celebrated in 2014.

Etymology

The term "sumbingtik" is a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordssuman, bibingka, and latik, the town's native delicacies.1st Cainta SumBingTik Festival
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Pasyal sa Rizal - Sining, Kultura, at Turismo
November 27, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2016

References

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