Halo-halo

Haluhalo is a popular cold dessert in the Philippines made with crushed ice, evaporated milk or coconut milk, and various ingredients including side dishes such as ube jam (ube halaya), sweetened kidney beans or garbanzo beans, coconut strips, sago, gulaman (agar), pinipig, boiled taro or soft yams in cubes, flan, slices or portions of fruit preserves, and other root crop preserves. The dessert is topped with a scoop of ube ice cream. It is usually prepared in a tall clear glass and served with a long spoon. Haluhalo is considered to be the unofficial national dessert of the Philippines.

Haluhalo is more commonly spelled as "halo-halo", but the former is the official spelling in the Commission on the Filipino Language's dictionary. The word is an adjective meaning "mixed [together]" in Tagalog. It is a reduplication of the Tagalog verb halo, which means "to mix".