Khuratcha's Best Biko and Maja Mais

Two of the most favorite Pinoy kakanin we love to include in our handaan menu is biko and maja. Maja is easy to make but Biko is a bit tedious in process but worry no more since one can now buy it in a bilao at Khuratcha's Best. An online Cavite City food shop.

Both Pinoy kakanin is yummy except the biko color which is a bit too dark. If only the violet shade can be lighten to half it would be more better looking rather than almost black. 

Priced @ P200 both for small sized bilao 

Where to Buy: Khuratcha's Best

Bibingka sa may Cine Perla

If you want a freshly made bibingka everyday there is only one place to go - in front of Manuel S. Rojas Elementary School in the late afternoon and wherein the old Cine Perla was formerly located.

 

Priced @ P75

CAUTION: Not super yummy but if you want freshly made bibingka everyday this is the one to buy

Aling Ika's Bibingkoy

Bibingkoy is one of the most famous Caviteñean kakanin aside from the Samala rice cakes. It's like a combination of tikoy, buchi and ginataan.


Made of glutinous rice stuffed with boiled sweetened monggo but instead of fried like buchi it is baked in an old style pugon oven then topped with coconut cream sauce with sago(tapioca) langka(jackfruit) and kaong(sugar palms) although the last two had been omitted over the years to cut cost.

Only one name comes to mind when we hear bibingkoy - Aling Ika's Carinderia in Cavite City Public Market. Her bibingkoy is famous way back before the Japanese occupation and war era. Good thing Aling Ika’s children had taken over to continue the bibingkoy legacy so up to now Caviteños can still savor and enjoy this kakanin at the public market. According to my mom my great great grandmother used to make this too.

Another fave of mine and most children from Aling Ika is this ube kalamay which is also serve with coconut cream sauce like in bibingkoy.

Que sabroso !

Quesillo

Kesong puti or quesillo as how we call it here in Cavite is a proudly Philippine cheese made of carabao's milk. Traditionally it is sold wrapped in banana leaves.



My lolo use to buy this for merienda whenever he wins in sabong together with salakot or bonete bread in Dizon's bakery. This is best paired with pandesal but me I love it with the salakot bread but only pandesal and bonete are now available in Dizon's bakery.



Quesillo is also placed on top of traditional Cavitenean bibingka along with white sugar and itlog na pula.