Comments on: Macapuno

By: u8mypinkcookies

u8mypinkcookies — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:55:05 +0000

i love the macapuno tarts from Pan de Manila! lots or pure macapuno filling on a flaky crust! :D yummy.. and not too sweet! :D

By: tak arcega

tak arcega — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:44:33 +0000

wow, ang dami pala nating macapuno lover, i just love it, i can finish a whole package of red ribbons macapuno balls in one sitting yummmyyyy:)

By: aze

aze — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:51:11 +0000

is there any macapuno tree?

By: thess

thess — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:24:48 +0000

hi everyone, wow… we are all macapuno lover’s, since i loved macapuno so much, my husband explore Laguna to look for macapuno and cooked it for me! it was so sweet of him to do that, and guess what it becomes our business now, we are selling the “Best Macapuno in town” you must try it.

By: lianne

lianne — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:38:50 +0000

My family too has such a weakness for macapuno! I have always been wary of the bottled “macapuno” sold in the supermarts though because they usually are really just, yikes, sweetened mature coconuts!
We were in the area of Los Banos, Laguna two Fridays ago returning from Lucban, Quezon(for the Pahiyas Festival). We made the traditional stop at the “The Original Buco Pie” when my mother chanced on a nearby fruit stall selling macapuno nuts at 3 pcs for Php 100 (which was quite cheap!) The following day, I cracked open the nuts and found the gooey stuff inside with their thick white meat. I carefully scrapped the meat,the prepared the syrup (2 cups white sugar for every half a cup of water)and put in some pandan leaves. Wow, my first time to make sweetened macapuno from scratch! It was sooo good that it sadly didn’t last long!

By: winnie

winnie — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:17:39 +0000

i really like macapuno, too! a staff of my husband gave him one…yes…it looks so hard and brought it to a coconut vendor just to open it coz i myself dont know how i would open it..then..when it was open..i was surprised how it looks like inside…coz it’s really different from an ordinary coconut.

By: zzzz

zzzz — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:37:36 +0000

macapuno in english is ‘coconut sport’ but the name macapuno is known everywhere.

By: Luisa Masangkay

Luisa Masangkay — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:13:38 +0000

Masarap palang magbasa ng mga comments dito,mahilig din akong mag luto and I just love macapuno like you guys do. And I know how frustrating it is when you’re craving, buy jars and jars of this I call “COCO LOCO” not mindind how much, yoon pala “niyog” lang! Matamis nang sobra, sobra pang tigas, nakakainis, ‘di ba? Try “Kayumanggi” brand. Naku, ewan ko, sounds like I’m promoting this brand but honestly I don’t even know the owner. One thing I know, this is the real, the best, purest, original macapuno. Yummy talaga! Just like cracking the shell open and find already grated macapuno inside. So if you find this brand, try one and enjoy!

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:23:26 +0000

I’m going to steer this thread towards a slightly different direction, ok? Does anyone out there have an easy recipe to make “Makapuno Pie?” I don’t want Buko Pie, I want Makapuno Pie.

By: conquestcal

conquestcal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:49:07 +0000

What am i doing in a foodie website when I am but a lowly subsistence cook (meaning cooking for the family so they do not die)!!! My memory of macapuno candy is from my childhood when aunts cooked the stuff for a whole day – I don’t have the patience. When I next go back to Quezon, I am challenged to research from either surviving aunt for the recipe. It’s this macapuno stuff with milk that is wrapped in Japanese paper. The other macapuno recipe which is more common is the minatamis na macapuno, macapuno in sugar. The opacity or translucence of the macapuno strings depends on the amount of sugar: less sugar, less translucent; more sugar, more translucent.

I shall keep you posted, Marketman. You have intrigued me enough to go back to my roots.