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Walis Tingting

Leave a comment Posted by on August 20, 2014
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Mundane life in the island

This old lady repetitively scrape each leaflet from its rib that came from a fallen dead coconut frond, then she’d set aside each stick on the ground for her to bind all of those together to form walis tingting.

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A broom out of sticks aka walis tingting

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Wrapped Cooked Rice

Leave a comment Posted by on September 16, 2013

Rice boiled inside weaved coconut fronds. AKA puso.
So common in Eastern Visayas especially in Cebu and I think there are several practical uses of this type of rice packaging that I wonder why the rest of the country did not adapt it.
Puso is practical to bring as rice baon for school, work or picnic. Very practical as street food rice, as take-out rice and appropriate for “plastic-banned cities”  Also there’s no need for flatware if paired with skewered meat such as pork barbecue, and eating rice in a moving vehicle is possible with puso.

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Perfect for lechon baboy too. Got these together with lechon I bought in Tacloban

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