This time of year, right in the middle of the holiday season, there's a beloved, frenzied tradition playing out in Filipino households all around the world, with which reporter Gabrielle Berbey is intimately familiar. A Balikbayan box is a huge cardboard box (often weighing over 100 pounds) that Filipinos living all over the world send to family members who are still living in the Philippines. The word Balikbayan literally means homecoming in Tagalog.
Balikbayan Boxes
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323- The House that Came in the Mail Again
460- Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
459- Yankee Pyramids
458- Real Fake Bridges
457- Model Organism
456- Full Spectrum
455- A Field Guide to Water
454- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design
453- The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food
452- The Lows of High Tech
451- Hanko
450- Stuff the British Stole
449- Mine!
448- Katie Mingle's Right to Roam
447- Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green
446- Flag Days: Good Luck, True South
445- The Clinch
444- Pipe Dreams
443- Matters of Time
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