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- noun   A popular Philippine dessert consisting of a mixture of shaved ice and milk with various boiled sweet beans and fruits, served cold in a tall glass or bowl.
Etymologies
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Examples
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								And for dessert try the halo-halo, a shaved-ice mixture with various toppings $5.50. Filipino on First 2011 
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								Enjoy a San Miguel Pale Pilsen with your seafood, and finish with the Philippine iconic dessert, halo-halo (Tagalog for "mix"), a super-sugary confection of shaved ice, flan, sweet beans, fruits and multicolored ice-cream, such as the deeply violet yam-flavored ice-cream. Manila 2010 
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								Short time sa motel, pata tim, lechong kawali, leche flang buo o sa halo-halo, may ube ice cream pa — yan ang mga nakahihiligan sa kama o papag, hapag o dulang, hanggang maduling sa kalandian at kabusugan. "Babala" by Alfred A. Yuson vonjobi 2009 
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								Short time sa motel, pata tim, lechong kawali, leche flang buo o sa halo-halo, may ube ice cream pa — yan ang mga nakahihiligan sa kama o papag, hapag o dulang, hanggang maduling sa kalandian at kabusugan. Archive 2009-02-01 vonjobi 2009 
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								This almost reminds me of a favorite dessert/snack we had in the Philippines called halo-halo ... My Ambrosia 2007 
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								It's like a junior version of halo-halo, served in a smaller sundae glass, with layers of baby coconut ice cream, cream sauce, tapioca and green gelatin innocuously flavored with pandanus leaf. 
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								It's like a junior version of halo-halo, served in a smaller sundae glass, with layers of baby coconut ice cream, cream sauce, tapioca and green gelatin innocuously flavored with pandanus leaf. 
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								For dessert, thick leche flan ($3.25) and halo-halo ($5.50) topped with a scoop of purple ube ice cream are no-brainers, so I thought. 
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								That tall glass of the Filipinos 'favorite crushed-ice dessert known as halo-halo may look inviting in the searing summer heat, but it can be potentially deadly as well. 
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								Rita and San Fernando jumbled with words like tocino, sisig and halo-halo; made a mental note to skip dinner; and signed up at the last minute. Home 2010 
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