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Saturday, April 29, 2006
Summer’s afternoon delight: Halo-halo station at the Lobby Lounge
Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino (WCCHC) invites you to indulge in the season’s hottest refresher: the all-Filipino, all-time favorite halo-halo.
It is a fact that every true-blooded Filipino has his own share of one or two happy memories with this icy treat. More popular in the sweltering heat of the summer months, the halo-halo is actually not just a summer offering but is a year-round preferred dessert in the Philippines. A unique mixture of shaved ice, milk, and sugar, and hefty servings of various sweet beans and fruits, and served cold in a tall glass, this milk-laden indulgence is now available in an inimitable Halo-Halo Station propped up at the Lobby Lounge of Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino for the whole summer month of April. For only P210.00, one gets to concoct and personalize his very own glass of halo-halo from a spread of colorful ingredients. Yes, including the velvety dollop that finishes it off: ice cream.
Though one is free to throw in a myriad of delicious ingredients in a tall halo-halo glass, here are the more popular and basic halo-halo elements: Shredded melon, macapuno, scooped star apple and cubed mango make the halo-halo a more exotic fare due to their seasonal availability; Beans such as black monggo and sweet garbanzos are added to the mix, squeezing in with broiled root crops such as diced or crushed camote and/or gabi; Colored gelatin (in bright green, red and yellow) made from agar-agar is reminiscent of colorful fiestas; to further sweeten the halo-halo, kaong and sago in syrup are used; saba bananas and jackfruit (langka) that are mollified in syrup can be used as flavor enhancers. Traditionally, a handful of ice entombs the ingredients, making halo-halo-eating a somewhat challenging yet fulfilling endeavor! About an inch of evaporated milk settles into your long glass.
To crown the almost-ready concoction, roasted pinipig and ube, leche flan or corn is placed atop the crushed ice. Nowadays, a scoop of ube ice cream gives us a more sumptuous alternative. With all these ingredients in place, the halo-halo is complete, inviting, ready to be feasted on.
Grace your taste buds this summer, indulge in the perfect afternoon delight: create your own halo-halo dream at the Lobby Lounge of Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino. Available for the whole month of April, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino is located at Salinas Drive, Lahug Cebu City, Philippines. For inquiries and reservations, please contact (032) 232-6888: Conventions: Local 8044; Food and Beverage: 8200; 8201; Front Office: 8133.
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