Suman

At the Palo Tabo (market day), you can buy all sorts of suman. The way they are wrapped with the leaves, the leaves used, the way they are tied with a string determine the kind of suman you're buying. Suman is a rice 'pudding' wrapped in a local leaf then steamed. In the Visayas, we like to eat our suman sprinkled with sugar OR with tsokolate (chocolate) and mango (called SMT for suman-mangga-tsokolate).