Puto Bungbong and the Ber Months Traditions Before and After Christmas

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Puto Bungbong is a Pilipino rice cake in purple steamed in a wooden/small bamboo tubes. You can rarely see it on ordinary months, but when Ber Months came everyone is going gaga about it. Starting September many small store will open that sell Puto BungBong, Puto Sulot and Bibingka at night and many people go out of their houses just to buy it. When Christmas is very near most of the stores starts opening in the morning. around 4am or 5am untill midnight. On Simbang Gabi it will open at 4 Pm and closes at 4 Am some can open until 6 am but that's very rare. Puto Bungbong is very sweet and warm food bonding of family and friends during Simbang Gabi, most Catholics will buy it after the mass and the family will walk home and eat it at home. Catholic faith families and friends seldom commute after the mass they prepare to walk and talks every under the navy blue sky while enjoying the cold weather of December. When you come to the Philippines you may try it, we put coconut meat and spread margarin on it.