Rocha's Puto and Kutsinta

Probably the most common kakanin in every Filipino household, Puto and/or Kutsinta. You can buy it anywhere, in restaurants, eateries, bakeshops, and it's even being sold at your doorstep by mobile street vendors in the morning. Puto and/or Kutsinta has so many variations around the country, different textures, main ingredient, colors, sizes, types, toppings and technique in cooking. Personally, my favorite Puto of all time is Puto Calasiao of Pangasinan. As for the Kutsinta, I don't have any because most of it is pretty much the same, they only differ in color, chewiness and toppings.

Don Benito's Cassava Cake in Holiday Boxes

Just only 4 days to go before Christmas and 11 days to go before 2022, people are so busy preparing for the Holidays. Long traffic everywhere, mini gatherings or reunions left and right, Christmas shopping, and planning the menu for Noche Buena and Media Noche are all energy draining. So to lessen your cooking load this coming Holiday, you can serve Don Benito's Cassava Cake or even give it as a gift or your share to a potluck gathering.

Pink Anne Seafood Delight's California Maki

Who doesn't love or crave for California Maki? Sweet, savory, refreshing and filling food literally rolled into one. What's not to love?

A California Maki Platter from Pink Anne Seafood Delight (The Original Maki Store in Fairview since 2012). It's my first time to try Pink Anne's California Maki and it doesn't disappoint me. I ordered it via their Facebook Page, they're fast to respond. It's for my son's 11th Month Birthday along with a simple cake which I will post next.

What I really love about this California Maki are the mangoes and the Japanese mayonnaise. The mangoes are really good quality and sweet. While the Japanese mayo is aunthentic and a lot. It has the right amount of tobiko, the sushi rice is really good, and it has wasabi, soy sauce, kalamansi and chopsticks on the side, so you can eat it anywhere on the go.

Nathaniel's Rice Cake

If you are a regular visitor of my blog you'll know by now that I love Kakanin (bibingkang malagkit, suman, pichi-pichi, Christmas bibingka, and many more), it's a variety of Filipino native delicacy that is usually made of glutinous rice or malagkit na bigas, sugar, and coconut milk. It is usually eaten as a snack food or as a dessert.

Eurobake Original Inipit of Bulacan

What is Inipit? It's a Filipino cake-like pastry, inipit is a Tagalog/Filipino word which means pressed in between or sandwiched. The sweet filling is sandwiched between two fluffy chiffon-like cakes. And it is known that Inipit is a specialty in the province of Malolos and Guiguinto in Bulacan.

Buko Pie of Orient-The Original Buko Pie Bakeshop

Orient Buko Pie is one of the most famous and best Buko Pie brands that you can buy in Laguna Province, specifically in Los Baños, Laguna. Because of its deliciousness and reputation among local and international tourist, their Buko Pie were sold out just a couple or more hours once they start selling it for the day. 

Tropical Pie of Orient-The Original Buko Pie Bakeshop

An old-time favorite Buko Pie with a fabulous twist... Tropical Pie is a combination of the blockbuster Orient-The Original Buko Pie and just the right amount and sweetness of Pineapples!

Goldilocks Cashew Polvoron

Polvoron is one of the many food heritage that we got from Spanish. It is a common Christmas dessert in Spain. It is also known as shortbread cookies, it is basically a mixture of toasted flour, sugar, milk, butter, and added flavors like nuts, rice crisp or pinipig, and more.

Pendy's Napoleones and Halfmoon, Pasalubong from Bacolod City

Who doesn't love sweets..? Most Filipinos loves sweet foods, whether its desserts, cool beverage or even in entree dishes (like Pork Humba or Beef Pares). We crave for sugar!

When we travel we experience the culture, eat sumptuous and local food, and of course take home a little bit of that place. We never go home without a Pasalubong!

I have here some Pasalubong from Negros Occidental Province which is known as the Sugarbowl of the Philippines because it produces more than half of our country's sugar and its capital is Bacolod City.

Pasalubong from Quezon Province

Quezon Province has a diverse tourism offering, from their captivating beaches, colorful festivals, heritage food and recipes, and many more! I know for a fact that when we wander in new places, we tend to buy some souvenirs or pasalubong so we can take home a little bit of their culture. Here are some affordable pasalubong that you can buy when you visit the Province of Quezon.

Broas or Ladyfingers is Sariaya, Quezon's specialty. It's a sponge biscuit shaped like a large finger. This Broas from Victoria Cadiz' Bakery in Quezon Ave., Sariaya, Quezon costs ₱60 per pack.

Pinagong Bread is probably the famous pasalubong from Sariaya, Quezon. The locals sell in the streets during day time and they also ascend to some buses to vend it. Pinagong is a dense bread, it's name is supposedly comes from the word "pagong" which means turtle in English because of its shape and texture which is a bit hard outside and soft in the inside. The prominent bakeries that sells Pinagong in Sariaya were Villadiego's Bakery that sells it for ₱37 per pack and Victoria Cadiz' Bakery which is ₱38 per pack.

Shing-a-ling is a fried snack that is made from dried and fried pancit miki noodles. Based on my quick research, Shing-a-ling originated from Laguna province and invented by the Perolina Family. Nevertheless, I bought this pack of Shing-a-ling for only ₱15 at Villadiego's Bakery Pasalubong, it's very cheap in here, because this same size can be bought as high as ₱50 here in Metro Manila. Na Ide Perolina's Shing-a-ling is just delicious, crunchy, tasty, and not so salty, it is the most delicious Shing-a-ling that I have tasted so far.

There are still more pasalubong goodies and souvenirs that Quezon has to offer, like Kakanin (rice cakes) such as Budin, Suman, Sinukmani, Tikoy, Pastries like Apas, Kalibkib, Uraro, and many more!!! I hope to try them all next time!!!

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Sunshine's Breadmart Special Biscocho from Aklan

Biscocho is a toasted bread usually topped with butter, sugar, milk, and garlic in rare cases. I really love eating Biscocho because it's sweet, I like the texture of it which is a bit crunchy and at the same time quite spongy.

Rosalie's Bibingka Malagkit

Bibingka Malagkit is one of the many types of Filipino Kakanin or rice cakes. We, Filipinos love kakanin because it's filling, sweet, has many different types to choose from (suman, pichi-pichi, biko, sapin-sapin, maja blanca, puto and lots more), affordable, and you can easily buy it or cook one for the family. Because we love kakanin, we can eat it as dessert, during snack time, or even at breakfast! Bibingka Malagkit is made of glutinous or sticky rice cooked in coconut milk until it becomes chewy, thick and maligat or a bit gummy, then topped with a sweet caramelized sauce made of coconut milk and brown sugar.

Rosalie's Suman Pinipig with Buko

Suman is a Filipino native delicacy that is made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk and wrapped in banana or palm leaves. It is one of our many kakanin types. Suman is cooked in many unique and exciting ways in every region in the Philippines.

Apo ni Lola Durian Delicacies

When my sister visited Davao City for a short vacation she didn't forgot to bring home a little bit of Davao in our home. She gave us this assorted Apo ni Lola Durian Delicacies candies, what a happy treat!!! Apo ni Lola Durian Delicacies started in 1993, now it has more than 5 branches in Davao City, you can find it in malls, but their flagship branch is in #28 San Miguel Village, Matina, Davao City.

Pink Sisters Adoration Convent of Divine Mercy in Tagaytay City

We visited the Pink Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration during our day tour in Tagaytay City. It's one of the many and famous churches in Tagaytay City. It was a Sunday morning and we we're there as early as 7 a.m.; the place has a decent parking area that I think can accommodate more than 150 cars. There were a lot of attendees given that it's a Sunday, the chapel was full packed, and during the mass you can't stay or stand in the aisles. There were plastic seats lined outside the chapel to accommodate more mass goers. The place was so serene, peaceful, and relaxing. The chapel's altar was barricaded with iron grilles; you cannot go beyond the grilles.