What is a PATUPAT? It is a native delicacy made from malagkit rice wrapped in intricately weaved coconut leaves cooked in sugarcane extract. How is PATUPAT being made? At first glance, this dish may seem simple - but it actually takes nearly a whole day to be prepared. The process starts with harvesting, cleaning, and trimming coconut leaves to be hand-weaved pouch that will serve as its wrapper - it needs to be as tight as it can be so that the glutinous rice will not escape the pouch. Then, the malagkit rice pre-soaked in water for 3 hours will already be put inside the weaved patupat wrapper. It will then be cooked within 1 hour in sugarcane extract pressed and obtained using a traditional sugar cane milling machine called darapilan. To test its doneness and determine whether or not the patupats can already be removed fr...