Favorite Pinoy Street Foods?
By chiyochan
@chiyosan (30184)
Philippines
September 9, 2010 2:42am CST
Hello Fellow Pinoy mylotters! :D I would just like us to talk about our favorite street foods! You see, maybe in some country they also have their staple street foods only known to their countries - but I always think Only in the Philippines can we really find the best street food ever, and in all variety too... ;)
We have peanuts, there are kropeks too, and the colored popcorns. hehe
There's the famous scramble (ice shavings with pink sweet stuff, topped with milk powder) now also being sold in shopping malls!
We have the fishballs, the squid balls with the ever sooo tasty sauce we can't copy at home!
There's the world wide famous balot too... and of course Taho (mostly in transit with the taho vendor)
We also have the stationed barbecue sellers - who also happens to only sell at night (weird!)... and they also have the bbq chicken feet called adidas, adn bbq internal organs!
Any other streetfood that you enjoy?!
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10 responses
@atv818 (1980)
• United Arab Emirates
17 Feb 11
Well, you failed to mention pork's blood better known as betamax. Love them to the hilt! All the food you noted here makes my mouth water. I know that they are known to be dirty food but what the heck! They are too good to be ignored by our tastebuds. Simply yummy!
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@xtedaxcvg (3189)
• Philippines
14 Feb 11
My most favorite Pinoy street food is Scramble. It's ice shavings with food coloring, powdered milk, and chocolate fudge and it's absolutely mouth-watering. It's so popular that it has been commercialized and placed in malls. I'm sure you guys remember this one, it's hard not to.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
11 Sep 12
yeah that's right i was able to see this available in shopping malls. :D funny how people line up for an order or two. and then just a few months after, everyone was like moving on to the next food craze. it was just a fad, afterall. but really the scramble in the streets tastes better!!!
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
1 Feb 11
Everything that you mentioned is my favorite plus the company of family and good friends! It's always one of the things I need and want to do whenever I will visit Philippines!
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@tess_quinain (1149)
• Philippines
9 Sep 10
i like tempura..squidballs! i hate balot!hehhe. and we have boiled eggs too dipping it in a sweet sauce but i don't like that much. Hmm..i like eating!!
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@shaye_ganda34 (14)
• Philippines
16 Jan 11
'Kwek-kwek' as what they termed it for that boiled egg enveloped in a flour. You'll just have to have a vinegar to drip it and yummy! It's really my favorite street food. Home-made 'pop rice' was the thing i learned in my elementary and doing it until now. Just have to collect your bahaw or old-good cooked rice (Don't throw them). Have it dried. I usually place the 'bilao' at our roof. When the rice are dried, you simply have to fry it in a hot pan and bravo, you have your 'pop rice' so delicious! Just add a little sugar and enjoy. We usually place it on triangled paper and have to eat them ninety degrees turning your head in that upside-down triangled paper. So enjoyed!
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
11 Sep 12
hehe ohh yes this wonder egg. a lot of people got addicted to this! :D hehe well i haven't tried pop rice myself. but wish i could, we never really have rice left overs and my mom would probably freak out if we had to dry rice in the sun. hehe :D but i am curious, eh!
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Sep 10
I love all you mention except for squidballs, I don't like that. My favorite happen to be "isaw"(chicken intestine), banana-q, abnoy (fried egg with foul smell, chicken skin. You can add the squid with breading, that's the latest street food invented by the filipino.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
24 Aug 12
I don't like pork isaw, it has a foul smell, I can't eat it. Chicken isaw is the best for me.
@anachroniSaM (191)
• Philippines
19 Jul 12
I love food, in general. More so, when it comes to these street foods. I have come to love kwek kwek and balot. There's just something with the quirkiness of these food that makes me go back for more. I get to buy some whenever I can, although not frequently; there are some vendors of these delicacies nearby our school so I could check out especially when I am in the mood of munching my faves.
Exotic delicacies, it's more fun here in the Philippines! :)
