I grew up on buko juice. We had three coconut trees growing beside my grandparents’ house and it was only a matter of having someone climb up to pluck the buko when we wanted buko juice. Actually, there’s a story behind the coconut trees.
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Hayy very refreshing even just looking at your pictures.
I love buko juice ever since I was a kid. I associate it with peaceful & innocent times.
Nanay used to take me along for her novena on Wednesdays & on the way home, she would always buy buko from those carts parked outside the church.
Alam mo yun? Yung may mama na nagtitilad na mabilis tapos ang pang-scoop nya carabao horn (daw) tapos everything comes out clean then dumped into a plastic & I’m given a straw I can push thru the meat.
After the juice is gone, I gobble everything up in the tricycle making sure it’s all gone by the time we’re home. Ayokong i-share sa mga kapatid ko hehe
auee, i remember the first time we took our kids to Rizal’s house in Calamba. We had to wait until it opened. It was so hot that day and the kids, still in pre-school at the time, were withering under the sun. Wala naman masilungan. Even inside the car, it was hot. So we were there beside the car which was parked on the street and a buko vendor came along pushing his cart. I think we finished 6 buko while waiting. hehehe The kids learned to use a “sharpened” piece of husk as a spoon to scoop out the buko meat.
auee, i remember the first time we took our kids to Rizal’s house in Calamba. We had to wait until it opened. It was so hot that day and the kids, still in pre-school at the time, were withering under the sun. Wala naman masilungan. Even inside the car, it was hot. So we were there beside the car which was parked on the street and a buko vendor came along pushing his cart. I think we finished 6 buko while waiting. hehehe The kids learned to use a “sharpened” piece of husk as a spoon to scoop out the buko meat.
auee, i remember the first time we took our kids to Rizal’s house in Calamba. We had to wait until it opened. It was so hot that day and the kids, still in pre-school at the time, were withering under the sun. Wala naman masilungan. Even inside the car, it was hot. So we were there beside the car which was parked on the street and a buko vendor came along pushing his cart. I think we finished 6 buko while waiting. hehehe The kids learned to use a “sharpened” piece of husk as a spoon to scoop out the buko meat.
Gosh! I would love to have a drink of Philippine buko juice right now! They sell buko here from the Caribean or Mexico- and they taste weird to me. I only appreciated what we have in the Philippines when I left. Mapapa-uwi ako sa wala sa oras, kakatingin eh.
LOL KK, it’s after midnight here in the Philippines and I’m still thinking of buko juice.
LOL KK, it’s after midnight here in the Philippines and I’m still thinking of buko juice.
LOL KK, it’s after midnight here in the Philippines and I’m still thinking of buko juice.
Hi Connie,
My mouth waters when i saw the coconut.I miss eating young coconut and the juice one of my favourites.
I remember back home in PI,we have lots of coconut plants in our property and i can remember one mid afternoon i was so thirsty that i felt coconut juice for a drink.I wasn’t allowed to climbed on the coconut tree because they (nanay&tatay)frightened of me fallen off the tree.Nobody’s home when i got home so i decided to get one coconut for myself.A bit scary up there high on the tree like a monkey.Man, i did enjoyed it!I was scolded when my parents found out but its late i’ve already eaten and drunk the juice.hehehe…
i only get to enjoy buko pag nasa Bicol kami. My auntie, who is the district engr in sorsogon, bought a few hectares of land there and plans to convert it to a family resort. It has 2 fishponds now, with bangus and alimasag and lots and lots of coconut trees. all we have to do is ask somebody to climb and fresh boko juice we can enjoy the whole day.
in manila, you have to buy talaga sa market pa, tapos mahal pa.and sometimes, yung matigas na ang ibibigay sa iyo……
i make it a point to drink buco juice esp pag nasobrahan ng inom, kasi magaling sya pang-cleanse.
Oh my God!uhaw tuloy ako.It’s winter over here and I would always dream of being in the Phils. having lunch na inihaw na fish with realy cold buko juice.I have only seen coconut juice in cans at the Asean stores.Iba talaga Pinoy food,
organic pa.
LOL Gena, some craving you had that day, huh?
Brenda, actually, our old house where my grandmother had those “dwarf” coconut trees was in Metro Manila. In Caloocan City, to be more precise. We felt lucky because we could enjoy coconuts straight off the tree right in the middle of the city. Simple pleasures that get more and more rare as cities and populations grow. you’re lucky you have that property in bicol to escape to when the city gets suffocating.
binky, “lunch na inihaw na fish with realy cold buko juice”
ahhhh my favorite meal on the beach. Tapos yung fish bagong huli pa. Mmmmm…
LOL Gena, some craving you had that day, huh?
Brenda, actually, our old house where my grandmother had those “dwarf” coconut trees was in Metro Manila. In Caloocan City, to be more precise. We felt lucky because we could enjoy coconuts straight off the tree right in the middle of the city. Simple pleasures that get more and more rare as cities and populations grow. you’re lucky you have that property in bicol to escape to when the city gets suffocating.
binky, “lunch na inihaw na fish with realy cold buko juice”
ahhhh my favorite meal on the beach. Tapos yung fish bagong huli pa. Mmmmm…
LOL Gena, some craving you had that day, huh?
Brenda, actually, our old house where my grandmother had those “dwarf” coconut trees was in Metro Manila. In Caloocan City, to be more precise. We felt lucky because we could enjoy coconuts straight off the tree right in the middle of the city. Simple pleasures that get more and more rare as cities and populations grow. you’re lucky you have that property in bicol to escape to when the city gets suffocating.
binky, “lunch na inihaw na fish with realy cold buko juice”
ahhhh my favorite meal on the beach. Tapos yung fish bagong huli pa. Mmmmm…
Sassy,
Hehe..I couldn’t believe your grandmother would plant those 3 dwarf trees into the concrete court. it could have been moved to the side.
i love sweet buko juice. buko is in abundance in my province until the recent typhoon totally wiped it out…thus, no buko for the next three years.
Belle, we already had a “mini-forest” on the property and there was no space for her coconuts. It was terrible. Weird that when my lola was well into her 80s and her eyesight was failing, she had a lot of trees cut down, including an old, huge ylang-ylang tree.
Belle, we already had a “mini-forest” on the property and there was no space for her coconuts. It was terrible. Weird that when my lola was well into her 80s and her eyesight was failing, she had a lot of trees cut down, including an old, huge ylang-ylang tree.
Belle, we already had a “mini-forest” on the property and there was no space for her coconuts. It was terrible. Weird that when my lola was well into her 80s and her eyesight was failing, she had a lot of trees cut down, including an old, huge ylang-ylang tree.
Hi,
I would like to say first of all that I love your website! I’ve been trying out your recipes for a while now and they all turned out great. My in-laws (they are Mexicans) are so impressed. They hadn’t tried any type of Asian cooking until I came to live here.
I miss buko juice a lot more now just by looking at those pictures!! Where I am now, they don’t sell these young coconuts. Yung pang niyog lang. And even that, I mean, they don’t know how to use the meat correctly (like scraping the meat out to make gata). Anyway, naglalaway na ko just thinking about coconuts.
Thank you, Ruby. Home cooking is such a great way to introduce non-Filipinos to Filipino food. Re “Where I am now, they donÕt sell these young coconuts”—oh, how unfortunate. buko juice and tender coconut meat must be two of the top perks of living in the tropics. mango is still on top of my list though hehehe
Thank you, Ruby. Home cooking is such a great way to introduce non-Filipinos to Filipino food. Re “Where I am now, they donÕt sell these young coconuts”—oh, how unfortunate. buko juice and tender coconut meat must be two of the top perks of living in the tropics. mango is still on top of my list though hehehe
Thank you, Ruby. Home cooking is such a great way to introduce non-Filipinos to Filipino food. Re “Where I am now, they donÕt sell these young coconuts”—oh, how unfortunate. buko juice and tender coconut meat must be two of the top perks of living in the tropics. mango is still on top of my list though hehehe