Halo-halo

Halo-halo, more properly or formally spelled haluhalo, is a popular cold dessert in the Philippines made with crushed ice, evaporated milk or sometimes coconut milk, and flavoring 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 often topped with a scoop of ube ice cream and sometimes other fruit-based ice cream flavors like melon or coconut, though it is just as likely to go without ice cream as well. 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 far more commonly spelled as halo-halo, which is often wrongly translated as "mix-mix" in English. Haluhalo is the prescribed grammatically correct spelling of the word in the Commission on the Filipino Language's official dictionary. The word, which does not necessarily refer to the dessert, is an adjective properly meaning "mixed [together]" in Filipino. It is a reduplication of the Filipino verb halo, which means "to mix".