While on one of our jaunts, it seems that a very common site is buko pie. Buko is the green coconut that has the thin milk that you see folks chopping with a machete and sticking a straw in the top. The young coconut is soft and smooth and it gets harvested to make a pie. It is something akin to an apple pie but with less sugar. They are everywhere and we've put away 3 or 4. I've lost track.
We parused the market in Lucena and saw lots of old standy-bys as well as some new things. My favorite have to be the mangosteens, hard crimson exterior with white sweet wedges inside. We have also been downing lots of langones which are thin skinned, have wedges of translucent, sweet fruit and are oblong, about an inch long. We have gone though several batches of those.
While on the road we have also encountered a sweet rice roll which has a powdery exterior called Espasol. Let's face it, traveling is about the food, so we purchased a cassava cake. It is made from a tuber which has a smooth consistency. It's sweetened and has a caramelized top which remotely reminded me of a flan.
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