Just like any Asian cuisine, Filipino light snacks and desserts are mostly rice based. among all popular snacks, I especially love Palitaw where boiled flat rice cake is dipped in grated coconut served with refined sugar and toasted sesame seeds. Hmmmm Yummy!!

Palitaw is made from "bigas na malagkit" (sticky rice) washed, soaked, and then ground. Palitaw is a tagalog term which means to float