A Taste of the Philippines
Dive into the rich tapestry of Filipino flavors! Explore a selection of unique, shelf-stable delicacies that might grace your Lokalicious box, each telling a story from its home region.
From Luzon
🌽 Chichacorn (Ilocos)
Crispy Ilocano cornick with various seasonings.
Crunchy fried corn kernels, a specialty of Ilocos. Lighter and crispier than ordinary corn nuts.
🥥 Espasol (Laguna/Quezon)
A cylindrical rice cake with regional nuances.
Soft, chewy rice cake made with toasted rice flour and sweet coconut milk.
🍬 Balikutsa (Ilocos Sur)
Hand-pulled sugarcane molasses candy.
Coils of hardened sugarcane molasses that melt in your mouth with a deep brown sugar flavor. An old-fashioned Ilocano treat.
🐃 Chicharabao (Tuguegarao, Cagayan)
Crunchy carabao skin cracklings.
Crunchy cracklings made from dried water buffalo hide, a unique alternative to pork chicharon.
🥜 Baguio Peanut Brittle (Baguio, Benguet)
Iconic sweet crunchy peanut clusters.
Whole peanuts in caramelized sugar, famously produced by Good Shepherd Convent and other Baguio makers.
🍪 Lengua de Gato (Baguio)
Thin, buttery "cat's tongue" cookies.
Delicate, light, and mildly sweet, often enjoyed with tea or coffee. A Baguio baking specialty.
🌟 Turrones de Casoy (Pampanga)
Pampanga's delicate cashew nougat roll.
A honey-sugar mixture with ground cashew nuts, wrapped in edible white wafer paper. A Spanish-era delicacy.
🕊️ Sanikulas Cookies (Pampanga)
Pampanga's traditional "healing cookies."
Mildly sweet, milk-and-arrowroot biscuits molded with intricate religious designs.
🍯 Panutsa (Batangas)
Rustic peanut and brown sugar candy disc.
Whole roasted peanuts embedded in hardened brown sugar caramel.
🐚 Tahong Chips (Cavite)
Crispy green mussel chips from Bacoor.
A crunchy, savory seafood chip, often lightly salted.
🌸 Uraró (Marinduque/Laguna)
Delicate, powdery arrowroot cookies.
Melt-in-your-mouth cookies with a mild, sweet vanilla flavor.
🌰 Roasted Kasoy (Palawan)
Palawan's signature cashew pasalubong.
Rich, buttery cashew nuts, often pugon-roasted for a distinct toasty flavor.
💛 Pili Nut Treats (Bicol)
Bicol's iconic buttery and rich nut confections.
The "hidden gem" of Bicol, Pili nuts offer a unique, creamy flavor in various delightful preparations.
🥖 Broas (Lucban, Quezon)
Light, airy ladyfinger biscuits.
Golden-yellow and lightly sweet sponge cookies that easily crumble. Perfect with coffee.
🍃 Camachile Cookies (Cavite)
Cookies shaped like the camachile fruit.
With a firm, airy texture similar to broas, these cookies have a traditional Spanish-era charm.
🍂 Pakaskas (Batangas)
Rare buri palm sugar treat.
Originating from Isla Verde, Batangas, it has a smoky, caramel-like flavor, molded in woven palm leaf.
From Visayas
🫓 Piaya (Negros Occidental)
Iconic muscovado-filled flat pastry.
A flaky unleavened flatbread with a sweet dark molasses filling, often sprinkled with sesame seeds.
🍞 Biscocho (Iloilo)
Famous twice-baked butter toast.
Toasted bread brushed with butter and sugar, baked until crunchy and sweet.
📜 Barquillos (Iloilo)
Delicate cylindrical wafer rolls.
Thin, crispy wafer batter rolled into tubes, lightly sweet with a hint of vanilla.
🧈 Butterscotch Bars (Iloilo)
Chewy caramel bars, an Iloilo top pasalubong.
Small, chewy squares loaded with brown sugar and butter, often with nuts or fruits.
🥭 Cebu Dried Mangoes (Cebu)
Chewy, sweet dried fruit strips.
Cebu's most famous food export, capturing the lush sweetness of Philippine mangoes.
🍥 Otap (Cebu)
Oval sugar-coated puff pastry biscuit.
A very flaky, multi-layered cookie that shatters delightfully with each bite.
💍 Rosquillos (Liloan, Cebu)
Ring-shaped butter cookies.
Light, crunchy, and subtly sweet cookies, often with a hole in the middle.
🥜 Masareal (Mandaue, Cebu)
Soft, fudgy peanut candy bar.
Made of finely ground boiled peanuts mixed with sugar syrup, with a unique texture.
💋 Peanut Kisses (Bohol)
Crunchy peanut-meringue cookies.
Shaped like the Chocolate Hills, these are Bohol's signature sweet and nutty treat.
🥨 Roscas (Leyte)
Hearty anise-flavored biscuits.
A distinctive double-half-ring shape, very crunchy and mildly sweet.
🐚 Tahong Chips (Samar)
Unique mussel crackers from Samar.
Thin, crunchy chips infused with ground green mussels and seasonings.
From Mindanao
🍬 Davao Fruit Candies (Davao)
Sweet, chewy pastillas-style candies.
Capturing the unique flavors of Davao's famous fruits like Durian, Mangosteen, and Jackfruit.
🕸️ Lokot-Lokot (Zamboanga/Sulu)
Unique crisp fried rice noodle snack (Jaa/Tagaktak).
Forms a lace-like net rolled into a cylinder, lightly sweet and very crunchy.
🥜 Turones de Mani (Camiguin/CDO)
Crunchy peanut rolls in wafer.
Ground peanuts and brown sugar paste rolled in an edible wafer wrapper.
🌰 Cheding's Toasted Peanuts (Iligan)
Iligan's pride: dry-roasted peanuts.
Native peanuts lightly salted and toasted, often mixed with crunchy garlic chips.
🍌 Banana Chips (Mindanao)
Crispy, often sweetened, banana slices.
Thinly sliced Cardava (Saba) bananas, vacuum-fried or sun-dried then fried.
🧇 Kipang (Sultan Kudarat)
Sweet peanut brittle cake.
Made of whole peanuts, muscovado sugar, and sometimes sesame seeds, formed into flat rounds or bars.
🐟 Tuna Skin Chicharon (GenSan)
Crispy fried tuna skin snack.
A savory seafood crunch, rich in protein and Omega-3.
🥜 Piñato / Peñato (Butuan City)
Butuan's peanut brittle, similar to panutsa.
A flat, brittle candy of peanuts in caramelized sugar.
🍘 Salvaro (Surigao del Sur)
Thin, oval, lightly sweet cassava cracker.
Made from grated cassava, sugar, and coconut milk, baked to a crisp.
🟫 Dodol (Lanao/Maguindanao)
Sticky sweet toffee, a Moro delicacy.
Made from coconut milk, ground rice, and brown sugar, slow-cooked for hours.
🥨 Kilang-kilang / Kumukunsi (Lanao)
Maranao fried funnel cake.
Rice flour batter flavored with anise, fried into a circular pretzel shape. Brittle and airy.
🍬 Polvoron (Maguindanao)
Halal crumbly powdered-milk shortbread.
Maguindanao's version of polvoron, often flavored with pinipig or moringa.
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