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
castañas)
11.
Hamon,
- sweet-cured Christmas ham (from the
Spanish jamon)
12. Lechon or litson
- whole suckling pig, roasted
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