Suman (food)

Suman, or budbud, is an elongated rice cake originating in the Philippines.

Wrappers utilize a wide variety of indigenous materials such as palm, banana, anahaw and bamboo leaves, coconut shells, and others.

Some wrappings are simple folds such as those found in the binuo and the kamoteng kahoy, resulting in rectangular suman.

Some forms of suman are eaten like ice cream–with cones made from banana leaves, and still others are in very complex geometric patterns like the pusu ("heart").

[1] Suman dishes (as well as savory variants like binalot and pastil) are differentiated from pusô (or patupat), in that the latter use woven palm leaves.