Aug 17 2009
Fruit in the Philippines
If you’re a fruit lover this is definitely a place you’d enjoy. The markets are full of fresh fruits year round and in restaurants you can order a fruit shake from many different flavors. Mango is a favorite for the folks in this house. You might have guessed we were when I posted the mango and orange juice picture earlier.
Mangos are plentiful. You can even get them in different varieties including mini sized ones, these were less than the size of a small pear.
Not exactly a fruit, but still in the sweet food vein, are the sweet potatoes here. The sweet potato is known as Ube. It is purple in color and is used for a sweet sticky cake about the texture of a thick but hardened pudding. It is also used in ice creams and in halo halo or as a flavor in sweet breads or donuts. I have not tried baking one like we do American sweet potatoes but it is on my list of things to attempt. Ube is also sold as ube jam. We bought some in Tagaytay thinking it would be jam. It’s not jam as we think of it but more of a sweet item to eat. You can’t spread this on toast as far as I can tell! More to come about fruits in future days as we are always trying something new.
