Birthday traditions in your country?

I got curious what is lagkage, and found out it looks so delicious and resembles graham cake we make here sometimes. In my country there is no traditional cakes. We just buy any cake for someone's birthday, whatever we like or the celebrant like we would just buy it... chocolate, mocha or whatever. We buy ice cream too. But normally in my country whenever there is a birthday spaghetti or any pasta will be there too.

Wow,you are great lovely wife , i am not married yet he he maybe soon future ,and enjoy your food .Here in our country, i think my family no birthday celebration hehe only of few but just to thankful.. But some did celebrate.

Hello porcospino. Here in the United States I do believe that every family has a different way of celebrating birthdays in the family. When I lived near some of my grandkids we would go out to a nice restaurant for the evening meal. If we told the waiter we were celebrating a birthday then they would bring a small cake with a candle and sing Happy birthday. In general my family really doesn't eat cakes unless it is a cake made with fruit such as carrot cake or raw apple cakes. Some people have simple or lascivious birthday parties depending on their income. Some people just have cake and ice cream and cake with kids bringing gifts.

I'm from the Philippines and here in our country, There is no tradition when it comes to celebrating Birthday. Some would love to have a cake on the table but it's not that really important. My father would usually told us to go to church and pray for the gift of life.

Here in the Philippines, when one is having a birthday, the family get to celebrate it with the celebrant and friends and relatives. We prepare foods like pansit which is believed to long life, ice cream and birthday cake. It is already the traditional. Part of the celebration also is having a karaoke.

Well here we celebrate a day birthday ( the day we are born ) and the star birhtday ( based on the star ) under which we are born. The day birthday is normal, cake cutting, going out for dineer or party and the usual stuff, but the star birthday is something really different.. I usually have an oil bath early in the morning, go to the temple and also visit a few relatives..Mom makes this awesome spread of traditional Indian ( Malayali food ) and serves it in a banyan leaf and the whole family sits together and eats.. This is follwed by a sumptous kheer and varitey of sweets .. I really do love my birthday and always look forward to it..Cheers

Here in the US we just go and a simple birthday cake of vanilla or chocolate. Sometimes an ice cream birthday cake. We really don't have any traditions. We just basically buy any cake we like, put the person's name who's having the birthday, buy some ice cream with it if it's not an ice cream cake, and add some candles. Some people also bake the birthday cake if they have time. Nothing that big traditional compare to other countries.

In the US there isn't really a traditional birthday cake it's what every cake you want or think someone might want. With little kids it's white cake or chocolate cake. There is normally a party for kids, and teens. Adults tend to do some kind of dinner and dessert. In the US the traditions will be different from family to family and how they celebrate it. My daughter first birthday is this month so we are doing cupcakes for her birthday and it's going to be vanillia.