T.M.E (The Merienda Ever)
By Tokz
@ilocosboy (45156)
Philippines
October 22, 2019 1:25am CST
Or The Best Snack Ever (TSE). Merienda is the popular term for snack in my country.
Get away from processed and fried crunchy and soft in sweet and tasteful snacks once in a while. Lets go local, made by local people they way they made it before.
That basket with delicacies are given to me as snack when I attended an activity in rural village here. Isn't it nice they used that weaved branches instead of tin plates or china wares.
The food is the locally known as patupat (the triangular thing wrapped in banana leaves-- its a glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk); the other one wrapped in banana leaf is the one we call lubilubi-- a cassava rootcrop mashed diligently with stone masher); and that in white cap is binubudan-- the rice grain where the tapey or rice wine is extracted.
Is it nice? Yes.
Is it delicious? Yes.
Let's enjoy.
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12 responses
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
22 Oct 19
I don't know what is "lubi lubi." I know only of a folk song with that word.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
Lubi-lubi is made from cassava rootcrop. After cook, it will be put in the masher we call "bayo" or "alsong" and will be mashed until very sticky. It can also made from bread fruit or as we call it "rimas".
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
@ilocosboy maybe it tastes good like the "nilupak" or mashed tapioca root crop.
@DianneN (247184)
• United States
24 Oct 19
@ilocosboy I’m learning so much about your country! Love it!
@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
Lets just they are kind of organic food 
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
1 Nov 19
We call your patupat here as binamban. It could be made of glutinous rice or cassava.
As to your lubilubi, we call that linupak. This one too could be the banana. So deliciious because it has small slices of young coconut.
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
8 Nov 19
@ilocosboy Maybe you heard it from your Bicolano friends.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
1 Nov 19
Linupak and binamban is popular term and have actually heard it before.
@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
Actually they are traditional foods of the people of Northern Philippines.
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
22 Oct 19
wow yummy! But we call that suman here, even if it's triangular in shape.
Our patupat is rectangle, wrapped in palm leaves and dipped in "bennal" or sugarcane juice.. hihihi
In Indonesia, they have ketupat, which looks like our patupat...
anyways, I like them both as snack. yum yum
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
Really, ketupat, wow. Maybe that's where all it all started. Or from us to them.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
22 Oct 19
I would like that. In Japan I like to eat mochi with sweet bean paste inside, called "daifuku".
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
22 Oct 19
I think I had tasted that patupat when we went on a tour in Ilocos.
@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
I hope its the sweet kind of patupat.
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
22 Oct 19
i only know butter milk but i am sure food will be nice too as i like village food as its more fresh and original process.
@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
Oh you bet, I will never complain if this food is served or given
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Oct 19
and to think they are organic and natural food so it is really healthier and nutritious.
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