Filipino history ✨🎋 BANANA LEAVES 🎋✨ Banana leaves are the traditional method of serving food in Philippine cuisine, with rice and other dishes laid out with everyone partaking using their bare hands. Another traditional method of serving food is by placing it on a banana-leaf liner placed over a woven “bilao” (a winnowing basket made of bamboo) 🎍💫 Most commonly seen, banana leaves are also used in wrapping food (“binalot”), and are valued for the aroma they impart to the food. Specific Philippine dishes that use banana leaves include suman and one of our personal favorites, bibingka ♨️ Reserve a table on Tock • Wed-Sat • 5 - 10 PM 🪢🇵🇭🪢 . . . . . . . . . . #MELfunction #wildcatseattle #ubehouse #musang #musangseattle #beaconhill #seattle #seattlefoodscene #filipinotown #filipinofoodmovement #teamMusang #2024 #pusitpusithospitality #seattlemet #seattletimes