Young Blonde Girl With Pigtails Posing Among Coconut Palms Near The Sea

• Philippines
The Philippines is the worlds top producer of coconuts so coconut production in the Philippines plays an important role in the economy. Around the country there are coconut trees especially in beaches, coconut juice is also popular in the Philippines. In the Philippines, rice is wrapped in coconut leaves for cooking and subsequent storage; these packets are called puso. Coconut milk, known as gata, and grated coconut flakes are used in the preparation of dishes like laing, ginataan, bibingka, ube halaya, pitsi-pitsi, palitaw, buko pie and more. Coconut jam is made by mixing muscovado sugar with coconut milk. Coconut sport fruits are also harvested. One such variety of coconut is known as macapuno. Its meat is sweetened, cut into strands and sold in glass jars as coconut strings and sometimes labeled "gelatinous mutant coconut". Coconut water can be fermented to make a different gelatinous product nata de coco also called coconut gel.
• Vietnam
In Vietnam, coconut is grown mainly in Ben Tre Province, often called the "land of the coconut". It is used to make coconut candy, caramel and jelly. Coconut juice and coconut milk are used, especially in Vietnam's Southern style of cooking, including kho and chè.