Tikoy

The thing with Tikoy is that you're bound to receive one, two, even more especially if you have a lot of Chinoy (Chinese Filipino) friends and colleagues. You don't really know how to dispose of all the Tikoy. And so I gave my landlady next door Tikoy for the Lunar New Year. (I also make sure to always play her favorite, Franz Schubert's Ave Maria on the piano. Perhaps she won't raise my rent this year). It's not exactly a dessert or a sticky-rice delicacy a la sapin-sapin. I once gave a cab driver Tikoy because I just had too many. I wished him luck and he was so darn happy.