Sweet Tooth

Have you ever tasted sweet delicacies from “The city of Smile”? If not, go and try it because you’re missing half of your life. The capital of Negros Occidental which is the Sugarbowl of the Philippines, serves as the entrance of the sugar-rich cities and towns of the province, and because of that Bacolod is known for its sweet delicacies. Here are some of the delicacies that can be mostly found in Bacolod which is hard or too expensive to find at other places.

PIAYA

Piaya, this is one of the famous delicacies in Bacolod, it is a flat unleavened bread with muscovado (raw) sugar. The bread is flaky just like the Chinese hopia, and the filling ofcourse is sweet. It actually has different kind of flavors to pick for like Calamansi, Mango, Dalandan, Espresso, Ube and Rum. It is good to be paired with a cup of coffee. The shape of piaya is usually round and flat. Enriched flour, sugar, salt, butter and sesame seeds make up this mouth-watering dessert that everybody would love. This is a most requested pasalubong for the family and I’m 99.9 percent sure that no one leaves Bacolod without bringing home one or more pack of piaya.

KWAKOY

Kwakoy, one of the oldest native delicacies of Bacolod. Whenever my Grandmother visit in Bacolod we always ask her to bring us sweet delicacies including this, me and my cousins usually call this “tiles” because of its shape and texture. This is made of native rice, washed sugar, malagkit, and milk powder. This is not that sweet, and it’s kind of unflavored. But this is one of the most noticeable delicacy of Bacolod.

PASTILLAS DE MANGA

 Pastillas de Manga, who could have thought that Pastillas Mango flavor exist in this city? The dough that is filled with sweet blend ripe mango inside that gives the best taste to everyone.  This is also one of my favorite sweet delicacy from Bacolod, this one is really addicting because it’s not that sweet and it’s fully loaded inside, like every bite is heaven here on earth.

Obviously, that is the reason why it is called “City of smile”. Sweet people, sweet delicacies, who wouldn’t smile?