Galapóng is a Filipino rice dough, made by soaking uncooked glutinous rice (malagkit) overnight in water or coconut milk, and then grinding it into a thick paste. This dough is the basis for numerous Filipino desserts.
Notable examples include:
- Puto, steamed rice cakes
- Bibingka, baked rice cakes
- Palitaw, small flat sweetened cakes with coconut
- Moche, rice balls with bean paste
- Matse or (mache), boiled rice balls with sesame and pandan
- Masi, rice balls with peanuts and sugar
- Buchi, which are the local Chinese-Filipino versions of jian dui, fried sesame balls
- Puso, rice cakes boiled in palm leaves