...prepare the banana leaves to be used for wrapping, along with the strings to tie it up. The banana leaves have to be passed over some flame to soften it up and to sort of clean it up too.

The Cooking Process

Once you have your ground malagkit/rice and coconut milk ready, you can move on with the cooking process. These are some of  the ingredients. 

First off, we cooked the white part.  You take about half of the rice/malagkit mixture and half of the coconut milk and set it over low fire until you get a thick consistency. Add about 1/4 cup of margarine and a dash of salt for flavor. Set aside and allow to cool.

Next off, you take the remaining malagkit/rice mixture and cook over low fire it with the remaining coconut milk. Add the sugar, margarine, condensed milk and cocoa powder and continue mixing until you get this think, lump-free consistency. Set aside and cool.

The Wrapping Process

While waiting for the chocolate mixture to cool down, you can start wrapping. You flatten out the white part, as shown in these photos. Afterwards, you can add the rolled chocolate part as the filling.  Adding cheese makes it even better. This is the trickiest part and definitely the most tiring. I myself had a hard time learning it and it took me more than ten tries to finally wrap a good one. Until the end I couldn't make uniform-sized morons. 🌝 While wrapping morons, you get all sorts of sad and depressing thoughts like, "how did I get myself into this kind of trouble?". But....when you start seeing all the morons piling up you get elated and excited. And nothing beats the feeling of scrapping the container for the chocolate morsel to wrap!

The Steaming Process

Bayanihan is a Filipino tradition which is derived from the Filipino word "bayan" which means nation, town or community. Bayanihan is about a community coming together to help one another in difficult situation or just to achieve a certain task. Me and my friends were able to finish off this task because we helped each other out. We had at least six to 7 pairs of hands working out different assignments. And when the wrapping time came, we were gathered in one table talking about joke after joke (sometime green ones) just to entertain us while we were growing tired.

I wasn't able to take a photo of the finished product. What kind of blogger am I? Ha ha I was too excited to eat it probably. When you labor over a food for the whole day, you just kind of forget about picture taking and you go straight to gobbling up the food.