Showing posts with label Local Filipino Foods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Local Filipino Foods. Show all posts

Sunday, October 16, 2011

PUSO: Cebu’s Hanging Rice


No Filipino meal is complete without rice. For breakfast, Filipinos make garlic fried rice from left over rice from the day before. For lunch and dinner, we prefer freshly steamed rice together with our favorite Filipino viands. Even many of our local snacks or merianda are made from rice such as Suman (rice cakes wrapped in coconut leaves), Bibingka, and other Kakanin ( from the root word, “Kanin”, meaning Rice).

PUSO of CEBU



But for Cebuanos who are on the go, there is a special rice made especially for them and it is called Puso. Puso is rice cooked inside coconut leaves shaped into a diamond container. It is called “Hanging Rice” for it is hanged and