The
Molo Church in Molo, Iloilo is one of the oldest cathedrals in the
province. It is perhaps the only church in the Philippines where all the
saints enshrined in it are women.
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| The Molo Church |
Outside the church, near the plaza,
there are food stalls where hungry church-goers or tourists can eat!
This
particular stall is tended by a mother-daughter tandem. The daughter
has a speech problem. And her mother keeps scolding her for not filling
the tin cans with the bibingka mixture uniformly.
The
tin cans are lined with banana leaves before filling it with bibingka
batter which is a mixture of ground rice, grated young coconut meat,
sugar, and water. I've read somewhere that heating or cooking in
recycled tin cans is dangerous and can actually be poisonous, but these
rice-coconut cakes look really delicious!
They cook the bibingka in an improvised oven. And after 10 minutes or so, out comes the tray full of golden-brown bibingkas.
Very soft and sweet, these cakes are best eaten hot!
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Price: 3 bibingkas for 20 pesos
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