{"id":33516,"date":"2019-05-25T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=33516"},"modified":"2024-10-14T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:11:09","slug":"batad-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/cuisines\/filipino\/batad-pension\/","title":{"rendered":"Batad Pension in Banaue: Your Perfect Stop-over for Sizzling Plates and Beers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Batad Pension | Philippine Primer Eats\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ica3tIBFwsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s face it<strong>\u2014Batad<\/strong> in <strong>Banaue, Ifugao<\/strong> is not an easy trek. Even for most of us in Manila who are already accustomed to walking long distances to our offices, the paved streets will never equate to Batad\u2019s fierce beauty. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33517\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Rice-Terraces_Banaue_Philippine-Primer.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Rice-Terraces_Banaue_Philippine-Primer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Rice-Terraces_Banaue_Philippine-Primer-290x194.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Rice-Terraces_Banaue_Philippine-Primer-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>The view of Batad Rice Terraces from Batad Pension and Restaurant<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is why tourists, who want to take on the challenge that is <strong>Batad Rice Terraces<\/strong>, often make a stop-over at <\/span><b>Batad Pension and Restaurant <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for lunch or even for an overnight amid the raw beauty of the mountains and rice terraces!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Also Read: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2019\/06\/27\/begin-banaue-a-journey-to-ifugao-hospitality-local-gourmet-and-breathtaking-views\/\"><em>Begin Banaue: A Journey to Ifugao Hospitality, Local Gourmet, and Breathtaking Views<\/em> <\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Batad Pension and Restaurant, located steps below the Batad heritage registration, started as a souvenir shop and a home to the first woodcarver in Batad, <strong>Emiliano Blas<\/strong>, together with wife, <strong>Mary<\/strong>, who taught as an elementary school teacher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33525\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Heritage-Registration_Philippine-Primer.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Heritage-Registration_Philippine-Primer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Heritage-Registration_Philippine-Primer-290x194.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Heritage-Registration_Philippine-Primer-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Batad heritage registration area<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emiliano and Mary thought it was a great idea to have an accommodation and a restaurant to go with their shop as a way to offer their guests with a place to stay while waiting for their wood carvings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This led the couple to establish the simple and yet memorable Batad Pension and Restaurant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From here, Batad Pension started serving their special sizzling plates, served with plain rice. Among these sizzling plates are their sweet and savory serving of <strong>Sizzling Pork<\/strong> and <strong>Sizzling Chicken<\/strong>, topped with sunny-side-up, perfect at any time of the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33518\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer008.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer008.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer008-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer008-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sizzling Pork<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They also recommend their <\/span><b>Humba <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">made of sweetened pork cuts with raisins in soy sauce and their <\/span><b>Spicy Chicken<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, both perfect with rice to counter its kick of sweet, salty, and spicy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33519\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer003.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer003.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer003-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer003-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Humba<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33522\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer006.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer006.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer006-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer006-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Spicy Chicken<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While you\u2019re at it, enjoy your meal more while sipping on a hot bowl of <\/span><b>Chicken Tinola <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with vegetables in ginger soup\u2013the best comfort meal to ward the cool air of the mountains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33520\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer007.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer007.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer007-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer007-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Chicken Tinola<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pair\u00a0these meals with a serving of <\/span><b>Caramelized Banana, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sprinkled with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pinipig <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or rice flakes, a perfect end to your hearty meal!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33521\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer004.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer004.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer004-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer004-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Caramelized Banana<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As if to spoil you with a happy hour, Banaue-style, Batad Pension and Restaurant also serves beers, gin, tequila, and wines to suit your taste. Don\u2019t forget to try them if you choose to spend the night in one of Batad Pension&#8217;s rooms, including their native hut, to experience Batad in all its glory!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2019\/07\/12\/banaue-3-day-guide-traversing-the-beauty-of-ifugaos-wonder\/\">Banaue 3-Day Guide: Traversing the Beauty of Ifugao\u2019s Wonder<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33524\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-Restaurant_Philippine-Primer_Banaue001.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-Restaurant_Philippine-Primer_Banaue001.jpg 533w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-Restaurant_Philippine-Primer_Banaue001-145x218.jpg 145w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-Restaurant_Philippine-Primer_Banaue001-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">A peek inside their one and only native hut with its clean sheets one of a kind interiors<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So if, by chance, you found yourself\u00a0in the middle of Batad Rice Terraces and it&#8217;s too late to head back to town, stay at Batad Pension and Restaurant to\u00a0sample some of the most delicious meals in Banaue and to wake up to scenic views of Batad!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33526\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer010.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer010.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer010-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/Batad-Pension-and-Restaurant_Banaue_Philippine-Primer010-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>How to get here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Batad Pension and Restaurant is a 15-minute trek from Batad Junction. If you&#8217;re on your Batad-Bangaan-Tappiyah trek with <strong>Filipino Travel Center<\/strong>, they will safely drive you from your accommodation to Batad Junction\u00a0and then lead you to trek from there.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This first appeared in Philippine\u00a0Primer Japanese magazine&#8217;s June 2019 issue.<br \/>\nWritten by Chin Sanigan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop-over at Batad Pension and Restaurant for lunch or even for an overnight amid the raw beauty of the mountains and rice terraces!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,2931,218,255,3529],"tags":[3535,3544,3762,3757,3756,3766,3758,3759,3545,3761,3760,3763,3557,3765,3764],"class_list":["post-33516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filipino","category-philippines","category-ifugao","category-banaue","category-banaue-2019","tag-banaue","tag-batad","tag-batad-junction","tag-batad-pension","tag-batad-pension-and-restaurant","tag-batad-pension-and-restaurant-banaue","tag-batad-pension-ph","tag-batad-ph","tag-batad-rice-terraces","tag-batad-trail","tag-brgy-batad","tag-heritage","tag-ifugao","tag-native-house","tag-native-hut"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33516"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55820,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33516\/revisions\/55820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}