Balikbayan Box

mom: Nearly one-metre tall, what stands out about the balikbayan box is its size, according to Huffington Post Canada. The cardboard cube came up to my mom hip and loomed over me as a kid. Al: Growing up in a Filipino-Canadian household, buying canned luncheon meats in bulk signaled it was time to send a balikbayan box — a Filipino tradition of sending care packages. A photo posted by bossko_Sam on Sep 29, 2016 at 2:18pm PDT This is pretty much what my mom shopping trips looks like. When my mom immigrated to Canada, she picked up the practice from her fellow Overseas Filipino Workers working in department stores. This typical balikbayan shopping haul is from Instagram user Samlanie. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.