Puto Bumbong
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The Puto Bumbong, a traditional Filipino Christmas Treat
A purpled-colored sweet cooked in tubes that are placed on a special steamer-cooker. When cooked, they are removed from the bamboo tubes, spread with butter and sprinkled with sugar and niyog (grated coconut). They are then wrapped in wilted banana leaves which keeps them warm and moist until they are ready to be eaten. Like Bibingka, Puto Bumbong is inexorably linked with Simbang Gabi–the dawn mass on the nine days
Being a Cebuana, I only got to taste Puto Bumbomg when I moved to Manila as a college student. I’ve heard so much about it from friends and relatives. Passing by one of the Puto Bumbong stalls, I was fascinated by the cooking method.
Now that Christmas season is in the air, I crave for some. On my way to the south, I passed by the Shell Magallanes station because I knew there was a stall there that sells Puto Bumbong. For 25 pesos, I got 4 pieces of puto bumbong. It could be cheaper elsewhere but it was definitely good.
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Wow, that brought back pleasant memories of 8-year old me with my younger cousin and step-grandfather. I vividly remember this one day, my step-grandfather took me and cousin… and he spoiled us with junk food and sweets – puto bumbong was the best one because I had never seen them made… the process fascinated me. I haven’t eaten “real” puto bumbong in over 20 years since moving to Canada. I mean, I’ve tasted it here – made by other Filipino bakeries and others, but they never quite tasted as good as I remembered them to be. Sigh. I should REALLY go back to the Philippines, just for the food.
I hope they use that brown sugar from Negros which makes it all the more heavenly!
My first time here. Happy to have visited. Will visit often.
Cheers!
oh yummy!! i saw some vendors selling already this morning when i went to hear mass
Talk about Kakaninn bibingka, puto bumbong etc..etc.. I found this guy who makes all these Kakanin in LA. He only caters and makes evrything fresh. He grinds his own galapong and even grows his own bamboo for puto bumbong. Man his stuff are good. if you need to see a picture of his bilao with kakanin, Ican send it. I think his logo is Kakanin sa bahay Kubo. I made some taste test and got some kakanin from Seafood City and man it was not that great compared to what he made. Plus his price is very reasonable. he just works on small clients and does not want to mass produce. he said it can get sloppy. he preffers the true blue Pinoy style of preparing kakanin.