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Monday, December 2, 2013

Traditional Christmas Food in the Philippines


Dishes and drinks that are Filipino favorites during the holiday season of Pasko.

1. Tsokolate
- hot chocolate, the drink most enjoyed by Filipinos during Christmas

2. Salabat
- warm ginger tea, a traditional drink after early morning mass

3. Puto bumbong
- purple-colored rice treat cooked in upright bamboo tubes

4. Bibingka
- flat cake served on banana leaves and topped with a pat of butter and grated coconut

5. Ensaymada
- a soft, fluffy pastry topped with finely grated cheese and white sugar

6. Leche flan (from the Spanish word for milk: leche)
- velvety custard made with egg yolks, has a rich caramelized topping

7. Imported keso de bola (from the Spanish queso de bola)
- ball of Edam cheese usually with a red covering, a traditional Christmas food

8. Macaroni salad,
- Filipinos consider it stylish and classy to serve Western foods

9. Fruit salad
            - almost always with a mix of sweet condensed milk and cream

10. Roasted kastanyas
- piping-hot chestnuts (from the Spanish castaƱas)

11. Hamon,
- sweet-cured Christmas ham (from the Spanish jamon)

12. Lechon or litson
- whole suckling pig, roasted

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