Christmas Delicacies

Here in the Philippines, no filipino christmas is ever without bibingka and puto bumbong. These food are always associated with the midnight mass, the dawn mass on the nine days before christmas.

I was not able to attend to any midnight mass but i was able to taste puto bumbong. While they are common as street food, some hotels are also serving this seasonal delicacies.

Puto bumbong is a dish made from purple-colored ground rice cooked in bamboo tubes that are placed in a special steamer-cooker while bibingka is a rice cake baked in a special clay pot lined with a piece of banana leaf.

I promised to the street vendors that i'm going to put their picture on my blog.