Thursday, October 7, 2010

Bamboo Sticks

The bamboo sticks are used as handles for corn.

Bamboo Cradle

The bamboo cradle or duyan to the makeshift bamboo cross over the puntod, are utilized.

Bananacue

Bamboo sticks are used for bananas.

Bamboo Roof

Split bamboos can serve as roof tiles.

Native Rice Cake

The puto are steamed on a platform made of bamboo slats.

The Split Bamboos

The split bamboos are used to make flat baskets.

Palo Sebo

               Our fiestas would be less festive without the bamboo palo sebo and the bamboo pabitin.

Bamboo Organ

The famous and very old bamboo organ in Las Pinas.

Bamboo Rafts

For water transportation bamboo rafts or balsa are used.

Labong


               The labong or young edible shoot is considered a succulent delicacy, sometimes made into atsara or mixed with other ingredient in lumpia.

Bamboo Floor

The bamboo floor when waxed and polished have a beautiful finish.

Parol

               The lighted parol hanging from our window during Christmas has a bamboo frame.

Bamboo House

Dr. Jose Rizal our national hero used bamboo for his house in Dapitan.

Baboo Bridge

Bamboo Bike

Bamboo Car

Puto Bumbong

                    Puto bumbong, a Filipino delicacy made of glutinous rice, is steamed in bamboo tubes.

Furnitures

Tinikling dance

               I'm so amazed that this foreigners are dancing our national dance here in the Philippines.