![]() My “bariotic” Christmas memories include cool nights, and early dawn masses at the local church, and outside were stalls selling all sorts of native delicacies such as puto bumbong, bibingka, halayang ube and suman.Īs a boy, I used to help my Apung Adi and Imang Consa squeeze the milk out of coconut meat using the heavy stone grinder to make gata. We would store them away after Three Kings’ day and then use the same tableaux again, year after year. Our figurines of baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph and 3 kings and animals and shepherds were made of paper. ![]() Our crude wooden belen was the handiwork of my tatang.
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