Comments on: Bibingka at the Valladolid Fiesta

By: calixte

calixte — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:38:46 +0000

And as pasalubong from Iloilo, we will send you home with some tapa from Botica El Car – the ones from San Andres will have nothing to say once you have tasted this tapa. Aside from the usual Panaderia de Molo of course.

By: britelite

britelite — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:30:08 +0000

Hay jack—we should bring MM around when he decides to go to Iloilo—from the suman latik,bicho-bicho,pancho sa buho,buko-cheese dirty ice cream,baye-baye,alupi,lumpia up to the buko pie and bibingka galore and of course kansi,pata and batchoy and even our mani along diversion road…then derecho to tatoy’s with the ducot of the valenciana and the binakol–and the aligui rice and managat of breakthrough .

By: Apicio

Apicio — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:09:43 +0000

Vince, lurking history buffs should correct me on this but the Spaniards and Portuguese traditionally and by contract kept out of each others hairs in the new world. Remember the pope of that time who drew a line on the globe to lessen disputes? And if bebenca shows up in Mozambique it would likely be through Portuguese contact. They were plying that area from Vasco da Gama on through the (nineteen) seventies and eighties. They only lose control of Macau and Timor in very recent modern times.

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:13:46 +0000

Bibingka and puto can be cloned and portable living outside our archipelago BUT as not good as the ones made locally. The ones made in our place have a distinct and unforgettable taste which I totally contribute the way they bake our bibingka with our makeshift wood burning oven as opposed to gas or electric oven. Our local air and water are another contributory factor for their yummy taste. I once told the Caucasian husband of my friend who told us â€œIf they are easy to make how come you gals did not learn how to make them?â€ I told him who would bother to make them back home where you can get them in every street corner and competition is so stiff that you can even customize them to suit your taste – bring your own eggs, sugar, butter or margarine, etc.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:06:03 +0000

natie and simone

My thoughts exactly. The Balasan one can be bought in Jaro Plaza right across our house. hehehe They make a bigger version of it and is packaged in a box.

The Mohon Bingka has a a denser texture.

Either way they are really good and I think has 70-30 ratio of coconut to batter. I get the feeling the batter is just there to hold the butong strips together.

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:08:57 +0000

Uhm, this is a naughty one: Was waiting for my jeepney ride across from a movie theater. This movie theater catered to a more “adult” audience, if you get my drift. What made me chuckle was the banner of the movie being shown that time: “Bibingka – Init sa Itaas, Init sa Ilalim”! No kidding! Haha!

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:05:51 +0000

There’s this bibingka stand that sells yummy, gooey, and sweet bibingka at the Jaro, Plaza here in Iloilo. RCJ’s Balasan Bibingka, it’s called. Before, they were only available around Christmastime till February (for the Jaro fiesta). We would drop by after Simbang Gabi and buy 2 large, steaming bibingkas for breakfast! Always excellent with tsokolate :) Now, I’m glad they’ve taken a more permanent residence at a house near the plaza.

By: luna miranda

luna miranda — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:38:11 +0000

wow, i miss bingka! when i was a kid, my aunt and her friends would buy me like a skirt-load of bingka to keep me entertained and wouldn’t spy on them.:D

i learned to love all the rides in the perya growing up in Valladolid. my grandfather took me every night to the sample each ride.:D

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:14:01 +0000

I meant the early settlers from India. That might of brought the bibingka to the Islands. Or the other way around.

By: dee bee

dee bee — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:02:24 +0000

love travelling through you :)

we are ingenious at recycling. i remember we had dustpans made from old oil tins. our driver would cut it diagonally across and attach a wooden stick to each half, and one tin would result in two dust pans. o di ba, nothing wasted!