Halo-Halo, the Pinoy summer mix

During summer what else will quench your thirst but a glass of 'something' cold.

Many people around the world have their own concoction of smoothies, shakes, and ice cream to beat the summer heat.

In the Philippines, Halo-Halo (mix-mix in English translation) is a truly Pinoy cold dessert. It has a combination of more than a dozen of sweetened fruits such as saba bananas, coconut sport, jackfruit, sweet potato, cassava, sweetened beans(kidney, chick peas, mung beans), tapioca, sweet nata de coco, sweet sugar palm fruit, and cubed gulaman/jelly. The combination of a spoonful of each sweetened delights, is topped with crushed ice and evaporated milk with pinipig (roasted popped rice), leche flan, ube halaya (sweet purple yam)...phew! That's quite a lot, right?!

The MIX-MIX action is when you have to mix all the ingredients first to combine the flavors and enjoy every spoonful of the dessert. :D

I'd like to share with you an INTENSE Halo-Halo we enjoyed in NathanielS, San Fernando, Pampanga.

This Halo-Halo has more than a dozen of combinations of the sweetened ingredients. You can tell that they cooked these ingredients the old-fashioned way as if your Granny used to cook them. For the topping, instead of popped rice, they used corn flakes which is more convenient nowadays. Instead of evaporated milk, they used full cream pasteurized carabao's milk. The milk is served cold and in a small plastic container separated from the Halo-Halo glass.

For a value of P55.00 per glass and P70.00 per glass with a scoop of ice cream, this is surely a TREAT.

Where to find NathanielS in Manila? They have a branch at Unit 3&4 ITC Commercial Bdg., Timog Ave. cor. Panay Ave., Quezon City.

xoxo

Tere :D

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