This is the national dessert and I am
always up for trying new puds so I ordered it today at our hotel in
Naga. How bad could it be? Would it rival some of the
random desserts I have had in Japan? Or those disappointing mung bean
ones I ended up with in Ho Chi Minh City? I ordered something once in
Osaka that looked like mint choc-chip and vanilla ice-cream with
chocolate sauce in the picture. It ended up being mung beans, green
tea icecream topped with tofu and black sesame sauce.
Anyway, today I found out that halo-halo
may look like a knickerbocker glory, but has some really random
ingredients. I only recognised 2 of them (glace cherries and snow –
yes, snow) so I just looked it up on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo-halo
All sorts of things that have no rbusiness being in a dessert, like sweet
kidney beans and mung beans, but (apart from the snow which I scraped
off the top) tasted pretty good. I admit I did leave some of the
green beans at the bottom.
Here is a link to someone else's picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deckchua/2379435155/
