Foot and Fire

Bukayo is the popular food fare in Sipaway Island  since the island is littered with numbered coconut trees. In the photo is a hot and just-cooked bukayo.  When each piece cools down, it hardens. *** Chay Nene's Bucayo is prepared straight from her kitchen. *** Salbaro is a local bread cooked with coconut milk and flour. Also called "pan de bisaya." *** Little bandi, peanut in solidified sugar syrup. Peanut Lumpia, peanut mixture wrapped in lumpia wrapper. *** Baked peanuts (above). Less oil salted skinless peanut (below).

By GERLIE M. UY We stayed at Doc J's Stop-over located just about two kilometers from entry to the municipality of Don Salvador Benedicto (aka DSB and don sal) located at 37 Brgy. Pandanon, DSB, Negros Occidental. DSB is a cool place but we dared to have halo halo as it is the place's best offering to those who stop over to the place... HALO HALO at DOC J's Stop Over, 37km Pandanon, Don Salvador Benedicto (DSB) Doc J's Halo Halo has vanilla ice cream, ube halaya, bits of colored kaong, sugared young buko or coconut shreds and sweetened with milk creamer and honey with dissolved mascuvado sugar LANZON (the yellow one) -- steamed grated cassava with young shredded coconut LINUPAK NGA KAMOTE KAHOY -- pounded cassava with shredded coconut LINUPAK NGA KAMOTE KAHOY, up close arroz con caldo passion fruit juice with buko shreds (young coconut) Don Sal women sell their camote and banana chips as well as their candied young coconut called BUKAYO.  LINUPAK NGA SAGING -- pounded ...