Great Everyday Meals Magazine | By Momma Cuisine April-June 2016 | Page 28

Typically, the dishes are served on banana
leaves on a long communal table. Layers
of rice, grilled and fried meats, fresh and
marinated vegetables are laid before the
hungry patrons. Eating kamayan-style not
only is very social, but you can stuff yourself silly with no judgement. Plusm, no
one’s hands are clean enough where they
get stuck on their phones all night. That’s
always a good thing.
New friends are always made during a kamayan. What we need to remember is that
this method of eating was in existence long
before any trend happened. It’s part of the
Filipino culture.
Ube is the new BAE in the dessert world.
Okay, we hate that word, but it sounded
nifty. When you are a FIlipino child, purple
didn’t mean grape, it meant ube. Ube, the
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