Betty’s Best may be adored for its sisig sotanghon, but you’d be amiss to turn your back on their mini bibingka galapong. Moist, packed with flavour, and perfectly bouncy, these single-serve rice cakes will rouse a craving well beyond the holiday season. Its slightly charred top enhances the umami cheese flavour that pairs so excellently with its sweet coconut base, it’s almost impossible to stop at one. Enjoy it with your morning coffee, afternoon tea, or even with their palabok and barbecue for the ultimate Filipino celebration.

Whether you’re craving timeless paboritos or paboritos with a twist, the dishes from Manam are sure to please. With their range of bibingkang galapong, The Moment Group's Filipino mainstay continues to demonstrate their culinary flair for both the quintessential and unconventional. The bibingkang galapong with salted duck egg is an infallible choice, but the ube swirl bibingka and sinful bibingka de leche with leche flan are tough to resist.

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Alongside their puto bumbong and pancit luglog, Via Mare’s bibingka has been an unwavering fan-favourite from the long-loved Filipino comfort food restaurant. The sizeable bibingka galapong is light and fluffy, a brilliant foil to the rich carabao milk cheese, luscious butter, and savoury salted egg that crown the cake. Grated coconut reintroduces a touch of sweetness and freshness with every bite, and those looking for even more umami can opt for a hefty serving of quezo de bola.

If bibingka has become a regular holiday routine, it may be time to take things up a notch and order Astoria Plaza’s Triple Bibingcake. The three-layered cake stacks the hotel’s much-loved traditional, ube, and dulce de leche bibingka and tops it off with ube halaya, creamy leche flan, and salted eggs, making for a one-of-a-kind dessert you won’t find anywhere else. Alternatively, you can always go for their traditional, ube, and dulce de leche bibingka flavours which draw in repeat customers throughout the year.

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Make the drive down to Biñan City, Laguna and pick up some four-cheese bibingka galapong from Chef RV Café. With a uniquely creamy centre and salted egg generously spread throughout, the native rice cake is the ultimate decadence—but for something even more exciting, try their Chocnut or ube bibingka, too.

The trendy Japanese souffle cake finds new life in Filipino cuisine with this bibingka souffle cake from Cravings. This inspired dessert sits a light coconut cake base beneath a thick layer of salted egg custard and is then topped with slices of salted egg and queso de bola shavings. Plus, it even comes with a luscious salted egg cream sauce you can drizzle over each slice.

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From baked bangus to chicken galantina and of course bibingka galapong, Adie’s Delight has become synonymous with comfort food. And yet, their special triple cheese bibingka is far from run-of-the-mill. Made with cream cheese, quezo de bola, and cheddar cheese, these cakes are and made extra tasty by their skilfully browned finish, and boast a texture so soft and moist some have even described it to be custard-like - order a box and taste for yourself.

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The all-Filipino arm of chef Antonio “Tony Boy” Escalante’s group of restaurants continually draws city dwellers out of town with its celebrated culinary offerings and breathtaking views of Tagaytay. Every meal at Balay Dako promises a festive feast, and the restaurant’s bibingka is a non-negotiable holiday delight. Choose between the classic cake with cheese, or upgrade to the special iteration with fresh coconut and salted egg.

A decadent marriage of bibingka and burnt Basque cheesecake—what could be better than that? This cheesecake-bibingka creation from Deli By Chele, cleverly dubbed The Chika, infuses the provocatively creamy Basque dessert with the flavours of the native cake and the aromas of charred banana leaf before grating some cured egg yolk for good measure—a luxurious treat, to say the least. This time around, chefs Chele Gonzalez and Carlos Villalflor take it up a notch with chantilly cream and queso de bola shavings, perfect for the holidays.

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