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| - HALO-HALO CHALLENGE 2013 - Contender #1
Impromptu stop here for halo-halo after sushi with the boyfriend. I've never been to Elena's and supposedly it's popular, but on a Thursday night at 7:45pm, the place was deserted. We each got an order of the popular Filipino dessert, which traditionally consists of shaved ice, evaporated milk and a plethora of other ingredients, ranging from leche flan, ube (purple yam), ice cream, coconut (macapuno), sweet potato, plaintain, jackfruit (langka), red beans, and some sort of gelatin. The said fruits and beans are placed in a cup or bowl first, then the shaved ice, then the ube and/or ice cream, and finally the evaporated milk is poured over the whole thing. Halo-halo means "mix-mix" and that's what you do--mix that whole thing up and consume. Well, we've now decided to do a tour of Vegas for the best halo-halo; this was not it. We got four ingredients in our halo-halo here: ube ice cream, vanilla ice cream, the coconut, and some sort of gelatin. I should have known it would just be okay because the menu sign says, "no beans," next to the halo-halo menu item. Not the best version--no leche flan, either! So, on to the next place.
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