Pan de Coco
I like to eat low prices meal (P50 and under). Usually, if I eat a smaller meal for lunch, it leaves me a few pesos for snacks. Sometimes I go to the Davao Central Convenience Store to get snacks. Most of the time I like to go to the NCCC (NCX Branch) at Ateneo de Davao. Why? Well, because of the NCCC Bread Factory! Back home, I never really seen a bakery or anything that had many choices of bread. We just had white, wheat, and a few others. Nothing really special. Here in Davao City, I see many places selling bread. All the bread being sold, though, has many varieties. There is one particular bread that has intrigued me by its wonderful taste.
"Pan de Coco" is Spanish for "Bread of Coconut". This bread is about two times the size of a cookie, and round. There are about five or six markings on the bulging surface of this bread. Within the markings you can see the tasty surprise revealed inside of it. When bitten, the texture is like a bread roll; smooth on the surface rather than grainy.When your teeth hits the core, the awesome burst of flavor comes. The taste within the bread is sweet. I think it is a mixture of brown sugar and coconut. The texture is creamy, and the coconut within the creamy texture is kind of crunchy.
I give this food 2 thumbs up and 5 stars!! Hehe.
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Hmnmn..DVO really makes their food different than the rest of the country or should I say different from Luzon. But then even here in Chicago, pan de coco comes in golden yellow and has none of those halls in the pic. Sometimes oil oozes out of the bread. When it’s like that, the pan de coco is usually good. I’m glad you enjoy some of our bread or pastries. Most americans bemoan our bread there. They say everything is sweet which I find it unbelievable. Sugar is not exactly cheap there so why would bakeries spend more money to sweeten bread when they don’t need to.
Roy- Yeah, I didn’t find any oil oozing out. I did love the mixture of coocnut and brown sugar, or whatever it is. I loved getting ‘em freshly hot ’cause they’d be very soft.
I find bread to be normal here when it is a loaf. But I haven’t seen as much as bread variety back home as I seen here. Most other breads I tried here are sweet. I’m not sure why they’re sweet though, but I don’ mind it (I don’t understand why some complain about the way things are culinary-wise).