Life in the Philippines

Yes, today’s post is about food again.  We really are going to do some more site seeing again so I can tell you about something other that what we are eating.  But in the mean time I’ll keep sharing the new foods we try.  Buko means Young coconut.  In the US we wait for the ripe hard coconut in order to harvest and eat it. Here, Buko, the young coconut is used in its soft state for making a drink.  Of course in its natural state it is healthy but thats not the typical way of serving. Everything here is sweet sweet sweet!.  This blog shows pictures of different Buko Drinks (Click here) Johnnie likes these a lot.  I can’t handle all that sugar.  In Laguna, they are famous for thier Buko Pies.  We plan to go there soon to see the area, so we’ll have to have a young coconut pie while we are site seeing.  The kids don’t like coconut so we’ll have to find other things for them to try.  Just for picture association, this tree is just down the street from us.  You can tell from this why there is an abundance of Buko Pie and Buko Drink Stands.

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