A Family's Favorite : Sticky Rice + Hot Chocolate

Puto Maya is the traditional way of cooking sticky rice here in our province. It is just made of glutinous rice which is soaked overnight, coconut milk, ginger, sugar and salt. The ingredients are cooked over medium heat then once the coconut milk turns transparent, it is ready for steaming.

In other provinces, they pair it with muscovado sugar or ripe mango, while other countries also have their version. I know Thailand has this pair where they add sweetened milk into the sticky rice.

Sikwate “sik-wah-teh” is made from pure chocolate which we refer as Tableya. These tableya are tablets or round disks made from cacao beans which are dried, roasted, milled, and then formed into chocolate tablets.

Sikwate is prepared by melting tableya tablets into an aluminum chocolatera filled with hot boiling water then stirring it using a special kitchen material called batirol. This is a wooden whisk and is used by holding the handle with both palms and then rubbing them together, this mixes the tableya that had sunk at the bottom of the chocolatera and then creates a froth. Continuously stirring would make a perfect hot chocolate!

My niece also posed for the camera before she could get a sip of her hot chocolate! I, however, don't like to drink a very hot chocolate, I would like it a little bit warm because I don't want my tongue to get burnt. My mother, on the other hand, wants her very hot. I really wonder how she can manage to drink it.

Aside from the puto maya and sikwate, we also ordered other snacks such as kutsinta and camote turon.

Camote means sweet potato, the usual turon is made of sliced banana saba with jackfruit but this one uses camote instead. So steamed camote is mashed and sweetened then is wrapped in a thin layer of pastry and deep-fried. Some white sugar is sprinkled on top upon serving it.

Each table has some ornamental plants and I used it as an aesthetic for the pictures. This one is a Dwarf Variegated Pothos.

My brother showed me how the turon's filling looked like. These were sold at a very affordable price. There were just enough pieces for the entire family. It was already quarter to four in the afternoon when we went there to dine in. It's an alfresco type of dining and the place is surrounded by trees and plants.

As I mentioned, the entire family went to grab some snacks here. This was during the first week of October, I somehow forgot to post this and was surprised to see the album on my hard drive today so I was inspired to get this blog up for today's foodie and Wednesday walk.

Let me share with you some photos taken during our visit. Here's Qwyn Amari showing off her version of the beautiful pose. She's a very active little girl, very playful too! She's my older brother's daughter who just turned one on the 21st.

The eatery has wooden tables and chairs. It didn't exert so much effort as the dining area was just their garden and they placed their rough wooden chairs and tables. It added to their theme and design.

Here's Matti joining Amari in the photo. My mother was looking after my baby as I was busy taking photos of everybody. It isn't every day that we get to go here together as a whole so it is worth documenting.

Matti couldn't stay still, so he was walking here and there.

We were 10 excluding the children so we ordered two servings per adult.

Here's our server who was surprised when I asked her if I could take some photos of her as she serves our orders. She was shy at first but she agreed.

I found out that the eatery's staff are just relatives. As they set up the eatery just in front of their house, the owner also just hired their relatives, some of them are still studying and since they are in a modular type of class, they have time to also work so they can earn from their spare time.

Painitan sa Baybay is open between 6-10 AM and 3-6 PM Tuesday to Sunday. They are closed during Mondays as their day off.

Looking at the eatery's social media account, it seems like they are good at marketing their snacks. Aside from that, they are also offering new Filipino snacks every now and then.