flan
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Two friends meet up at Chainsaw in Melrose Hill, the cafe with the flan lattes, crispy arepas and sorbet-colored wall everybody and their mom has been talking about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
Leche flan is the Filipino version of creme caramel.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2023
On the bubble tea watch: Neighborhood Bubble Tea & Coffee, which does leche flan milk tea and other Filipino-inspired flavors, opens at D gates at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
The flan is a sturdy round, better for the ring of strawberry sauce that circles it and the passion fruit sauce on top that lends pucker.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
“Hermanita, you make the best flan of anyone I know,” Aunt Sylvia says in English, so Uncle Bill and Dennis and Lily understand, since they don’t speak Spanish.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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Before there was this Peruvian restaurant, which opened at the beginning of summer, there were Claudia Berroa’s flans.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
The flans come in several flavors, including passion fruit, coffee and, for fall, pumpkin.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
The Berroas moved to the Bronx in 2007, and for Thanksgiving that year churned out 300 pie-size flans in their apartment’s galley kitchen.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2014
So I go up to the next guy, and he takes me over to the flans and the puddings.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2011
My mouth, for instance, craved sweets, figs in their heavy syrup, coconut candy, soft golden flans.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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