What to know<\/p>\n
Bruno Mars is performing five shows in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Isabella\u2019s Donuts created a limited-edition Halo Halo donut in his honour.<\/p>\n
The shop\u2019s creation celebrates Mars\u2019 Filipino heritage, featuring classic Halo Halo ingredients like ube, sago, and nata de coco.<\/p>\n
The treat is only available while Mars is in the city.<\/p>\n
Local fans are already raving about it on social media.<\/p>\n
Bruno Mars may be drawing thousands of fans to Rogers Stadium, but one Toronto bakery is celebrating the singer\u2019s visit in a different way.<\/p>\n
Isabella\u2019s Donuts has launched a limited-edition Halo Halo donut inspired by Mars\u2019 Filipino heritage, available only during his five-show run in the city.<\/p>\n
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What is Halo Halo?<\/p>\n
Isabella\u2019s donuts baked \u201cHalo Halo,\u201d a famous Filipino dessert meaning \u201cmix-mix\u201d in Tagalog, reflective of the colourful assortment of sweet mix-in flavours.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo celebrate your half-Filipino heritage, we thought we\u2019d recreate some delicious and iconic Filipino halo halo,\u201d the donut shop captioned on their post, tagging the artist, too.<\/p>\n
How Isabella\u2019s Donuts created the Bruno Mars-inspired treat<\/p>\n
The Filipino-owned business described the ingredients on Instagram as a pillowy-soft dough, an evaporated milk drizzle, ube pastry cream, ube stick-o, sago tapioca, and nata de coco jelly.<\/p>\n
The limited-edition item is available at any of their five Toronto locations as long as the Grammy-winning artist is in the city.<\/p>\n
Fans are already asking for it to stay<\/p>\n
Torontonians are hyped for this item launch.<\/p>\n
\u201cYazzzzz,\u201d one Instagram user commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cWelp, I\u2019m OMW,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cLove! We can\u2019t wait to try,\u201d one user commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cHold onnnnn,\u201d one added.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeep this around, please! I\u2019m not downtown until June 12th,\u201d another begged.<\/p>\n
Why the donut matters<\/p>\n
Mars has frequently spoken about his Filipino heritage throughout his career, making the tribute particularly meaningful for many Filipino fans in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Bruno Mars is performing five shows in Toronto. Isabella\u2019s Donuts created a limited-edition Halo Halo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23557,6993,28471,28472,48],"class_list":["post-68068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-bruno-mars","tag-filipino","tag-halo-halo","tag-isabellas-donuts","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}