a layered glutinous rice and coconut dessert in Filipino cuisine. It is made from rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, water, and coloring with coconut flakes sprinkled on top. Sapin-sapin means "layers" and the dessert is recognizable for its layers, each colored separately. It has been referred to as "a blancmange of several colored layers, sweetened and flavored with coconut milk".The taste is about as bland as tapioca; the coconut sprinkled on top was toasted, nearly burnt, and that was most of what I could taste. The texture is a fairly thick goo, about like rubber cement, although not really sticky.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Sapin sapin
A Filipino girl at work brought in sapin sapin, which she said meant "sticky sticky". Wikipedia describes it as
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One assumes you ate it, rather than played with it. One further assumes that if you ate it, your description of the texture is from that oral contact.
One then wonders how you compare that oral texture to the oral texture of rubber cement...
When I grew up, you ate whatever was on the plate. If times were bad, you ate the plate too. We walked twelve miles to school, barefoot through snow that was chin deep on a tall giraffe. Etc etc.
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