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By popular demand, I am featuring another kakanin stand which I dropped by at the second floor of the SM Las Pinas branch.
This Kakaning Pinoy stand is more organized than other kakanin stands I have seen . Each kakanin or rice cake delicacy is labelled with their respective prices. I noticed though that the kakanin is priced 1 peso more than the more informal kakanin stand.
Go to any mall , shopping places, or grocery in Metro Manila and chances are you will always find a kakanin stand like the one above. For as low as 10 pesos a piece, there are choices of biko, puto, kutsinta, suman , sapin-sapin and other Filipino delicacies. The kakanin stand owners don’t necessarily make the kakanin. These are just ordered from as far as Laguna or Antipolo.
Yummy Puto Pandan. I can just taste the pandan flavor in every bite of this puto. My husband and I happened to drop by at the Makati Cinema Square and the Kakanin stand on the first flooe never fails to attract me.
Vietnam has its own version of sapin-sapin . Just like our local sapin-sapin, it is soft like jelly but the green gel layer smells and tastes of that divine pandan flavor. The yellowish layer tastes like “sweet potato”. We got to buy the vietnamese sapin-sapin at the Salcedo Saturday Market for 50 pesos for a pack of 6 pieces (I think!)
The food glossary defines Sapin-sapin as a rice sweet of blanc-mange consistency, made of several layers, usually of different colors. Sapin-sapin is a childhood memory of my kids. You know how kids are, the colorful array of colors is quite attractive to them. Whenever I can, I buy some at the Salcedo Saturday Market
Here is a Sapin-sapin recipe
Palitaw is a Filipino snack that is made of galapong (a soft dough), rice flour and when cooked, it is topped with white sugar and toasted linga (sesame seeds). According to this food site:
Palitaw literally means to float. Once the glutinous rice mixture floats it means its cook.”>Palitaw literally means to float. Once the glutinous rice mixture floats it means its cook.
Palitaw was the first bakery item that my mom introduced to groceries in the mid-1960’s. According to my mom, she got inspired to start a bakery business when she noticed movie-goers buying bakery items after a movie. She tried her hand at snack items like the palitaw, puto, kutsinta and other kakanin. This soon moved on to breads, cakes and pastries. Now I digress. This palitaw was part of the merienda eat-all-you-can buffet at Dad’s restaurant , 4th floor, SM Megamall. The merienda buffet costs only 95 pesos (plus 12% VAT) but still, you will be satiated. I added a puto bumbong with the palitaw but I don’t really like the taste. I barely taste anything. Maybe I’m used to too much sugar. Anyway, I found a palitaw recipe for me to try out in honor of my mom.
This afternoon, I went to Makati Cinema Sqauare at Pasong Tamo Extension to buy some printer ink catridges when I bumped into this kakanin stall at the basement. The pretty display of our native rice delicacies (the kakanin) drew my attention. The vendor had practically everything from Kakanin, puto, kutsinta, sapin-sapin, kalamay bibingka, Puto ng Biñan, maja blanca, bico,and more. I chose the ube kalamay.
Kakanin as a type of food stems from multi-dimensional meanings– from the root word kanin (rice) as a noun or kanin (to eat) as a verb. With the prefix of “ka”, kakanin describes many kinds of rice recipes meant to be eaten as snacks or the many ways of cooking snacks or desserts to celebrate the harvest of the Philippine Islands. source
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