CEBU, Philippines - Who would have thought that from its humble spot in food stalls, the hanging rice would become one of the country’s tourism and trade icons? Aside from landing on the cover of the ...

And so Cebuanos invented puso. They learned how to weave yellow palm leaves into fist-sized pouches where grains of rice are placed and boiled. As the grains were cooked, the pouch was called puso and ...