Pan de sal is everywhere in the Philippines. A rounded bread usually eat by Filipinos made from made of flour, eggs, lard, yeast, sugar, and salt. It is a very common food in the Philippines. Pan de Sal is the most popular yeast-raised bread in the Philippines. Traditionally served for breakfast accompanied by such items as butter, cheese, honey, scrambled eggs or filled omelets, sausages, bacon, tocino, longganisa, Spanish sardines, jams, jellies and marmalade. Individual loaves are shaped like garrison caps due to its unique method of forming. The dough is rolled into long logs (baston) that are rolled in fine bread crumbs before being cut into individual portions with a dull dough cutter and then allowed to rise and baked on sheet pans. Its taste and texture closely resemble those of the very popular rolls of the Dominican Republic called Pan de Agua and Mexico’s most popular type of bread Bolillos. These breads all use a lean type of dough and follow similar techniques that were learned from Spanish or Spanish trained bakers early in their history. As in most commercially produced food items, they vary in quality to meet taste requirements and economic standards of various communities. Some people love to dip in coffee, milk, soda and hot chocolate. In the Philippines there are lots of bakery almost in any corners & roadsides in urban areas even in rural towns or heavy populated barangays. Like Vencan Bakery, San Antonio Bakery, Peter Pan, Bakery Johnson, Goldilocks, CJ Bakery, Bulldog Bakery, Pan de Manila, Apung Gari Bakery etc. / atbp. Now they're like internet cafe similarity in RP like mushrooms in towns/cities.
