Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dish, made of cocoanut flour or rice, used as a dessert by natives of the Philippine Islands.

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  • We have rice cakes - from the full-grain bico to the ground rice calamay and bibingka, which by the way, may not be as native as we think.

    The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans 2008

  • We have rice cakes - from the full-grain bico to the ground rice calamay and bibingka, which by the way, may not be as native as we think.

    The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans 2008

  • The Ilocanos had their Abel, Balindang, and Binancal; the Pangasinenses their Sapuey, Salampoy, and Carranglan; the Tagalogs their Hilis-calamay, Barong

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