Kakanin

Kakanin are traditional Filipino rice cakes and native sweets, usually made with rice or glutinous rice. They’re eaten for breakfast, merienda, or dessert.

You’ll see these sold along the streets, by vendors carrying bilao (wide flat baskets), and at local markets—things like sapin-sapin, puto, kutsinta, suman, and other rice cakes many of us grew up eating.