Filipino Holiday Traditions
This sweet purple rice cake is often served outside churches during Simbang Gabi and is best enjoyed with butter, shredded coconut, and a side of hot chocolate.
Puto Bumbong
This nine-day series of pre-dawn masses, leading up to Christmas Day. It is said that if you complete the series, your wish is more likely to come true.
Simbang Gabi
This beloved Filipino Christmas song, released by Jose Mari Chan with his daughter, Liza, in 1990, begins with the lyrics: "Whenever I see girls and boys selling lanterns on the street.
Christmas in Our Hearts