puso (sweetened rice)
puso - ( pu-sô; Hiligaynon [Capizeño of Panay, Capiz] snack; dw Tag. puso [heart]) [ n. ] sweetened glutinous rice in woven nipa palm balls. This puso is wrapped in woven young palm of nipa in a chisel-like style called tinigib, one of the most difficult styles of weaving palm balls. This kind of puso can only be found now in Panay, Capiz and is now being promoted by the local tourism industry of Capiz. When in Panay, drop by at the Holy Grounds Coffee Shop, just across the Santa Monica church in the proper of Pueblo, Panay, Capiz. The hulled glutinous rice is cooked in freshly gathered tuba sang nipa (nipa palm toddy) until the toddy turned syrupy, thick, and the rice would become like biko , sticky and sweet. This pu so of Panay is sold by pair. Each pair comes with a plastic bag of latik na tuba (nipa palm syrup). This is an old native delicacy of Panay, Capiz. To serve, the puso is cut into...