After a relaxing get away from Laguna, you can stop by at highway store and buy your love one’s pasalubong …. Buko Pie, it used to be one of my childhood’s guilty pleasures.

Colette’s, based in San Pablo City in the province of Laguna, they franchise their buko pie, so you can see them everywhere in the highway.

While the first buko pie master was D’Original Buko Pie which still sells the best buko pie, but you have to go at Los Baños in Laguna to buy it. There are rumors that Letty’s Buko Pie (SM Outlet) recipe is the same with them.

However, Collete’s was the first to experiment with various versions of buko pie. They introduced macapuno pie (made from a special strain of coconut that is sticky and thick) and ube-macapuno pie (a combination of macapuno and purple yam), mango pie, pineapple pie and among others. They also have espasol, bibikang cassava and pastillas de leche.