street food
By tigeraunt
@tigeraunt (6326)
Philippines
March 27, 2011 2:27am CST
filipino ingenuity is boundless when it comes street food and so is our appetite for portable food that demands to be satisfied with high flavor at a low price. we got the sweet corn, just submerged and boiled with its cover it water and sometimes taken out of its cover and grilled over hot coal. peanuts are everywhere vendors push around in makeshift carts, and are strangely satiating when eaten warm, the tongue puckering from the excess of salt. sometimes too, the peanuts can be boiled and sold still in their shells, or fried with lots of garlic chips.
then there is this very popular "kwek-kwek" (boiled quail eggs dredged in an orange batter and deep-fried. the color comes from tints of annatto powder, locally known as atsuete. it is eaten with lots of vinegar to offset its inherent greasiness. sometimes vendors give free sliced cucumber or seaweeds.
what i love is the local plaintain bananas, "saba". they are immersed in hot oil and brown sugar. the intense heat and sweet thoroughly coat the banana in a gleaming copper coat. One bite rewards the eater with shards of crackling sugar breaking away to reveal soft banana.
it is so satisfying and cheap, all eaten on a stick. same treatment is given to camote (also, kamote) and stuck on a stick, or French fry-style as in camote chips. there are so many others i see.
what is you favorite street food?
ann 
then there is this very popular "kwek-kwek" (boiled quail eggs dredged in an orange batter and deep-fried. the color comes from tints of annatto powder, locally known as atsuete. it is eaten with lots of vinegar to offset its inherent greasiness. sometimes vendors give free sliced cucumber or seaweeds.
what i love is the local plaintain bananas, "saba". they are immersed in hot oil and brown sugar. the intense heat and sweet thoroughly coat the banana in a gleaming copper coat. One bite rewards the eater with shards of crackling sugar breaking away to reveal soft banana. it is so satisfying and cheap, all eaten on a stick. same treatment is given to camote (also, kamote) and stuck on a stick, or French fry-style as in camote chips. there are so many others i see.
what is you favorite street food?
ann 2 people like this
11 responses
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
27 Mar 11
Anny Sweety
While I was in Davao and Manila i have tasted some of your street foods, once your hubby was with me, we really over ate, i had loose motions for the entire night lol
Here too we see road side stalls, also venders sell door to door, they are too spicy, chilly and too oily..
I am told, they use the same cooking oil again and again, this is not good for my stomach at this age..
But in my younger days, i used to eat a lot of these stuff.
Thanks for sharing
Cheers.
BE HAPPY ALWAYS.
Enjoy a nice SUNDAY
Professor ‘Bhuwan’. .
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@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
hi professor,
i remember you had too many of the cassava cake and "kutsinta" your stomach wasnt able to digest it. i remember you also tasted the other "kakanin's" (sweets). i was so worried but i know it is due to so much coconut cream in it, but i am very glad the medicine's effect was fast. 
the spicy that we get here now are the sauces from barbeques and siomai's (chinese steamed meat in wanton wrappers).
thank you and hope i get to taste the homemade version of the said street foods when we visit you.
have a great day.
ann
the spicy that we get here now are the sauces from barbeques and siomai's (chinese steamed meat in wanton wrappers).
thank you and hope i get to taste the homemade version of the said street foods when we visit you.
have a great day.
ann1 person likes this
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
hi sunny5u,
i get to eat noodles very slowly in the street because most of it are served steaming hot and i cant take it. i prefer to let it cool rather to a warm temperature before i attack my noodles. 
but it sure is filling and delicious.
have a very nice day.
ann
but it sure is filling and delicious.
have a very nice day.
ann
@marguicha (215346)
• Chile
27 Mar 11
I hardly ever eat any food in the streets now because I´m afraid it´s not as clean as it should. When I was young I didn´t have that problem though and I did not even think I´d get sick. Way back then, I liked very much some fritters that were wonderful in Winter.
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@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
hi marguicha,
i choose always where to buy. but of course you have to check the preparation and how they display it and how they handle the food when serving.
i am very keen on that.
thank you for your response.
ann
i am very keen on that.
thank you for your response.
ann
@dhysanne (449)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
I really don't have favorites. I think it depends if it looks good and clean. Here in Alabang Marketplace, they sell "Kwek-kwek" or boiled quailed eggs with vinegar. Then they have chopped cucumber for side dish. And it really taste good. They also have fried stuffs like kikiam, fishballs and calamares. Plus fruit drinks like coocnut, manggo and oranges.
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@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
hi dhysanne,
i love your choices though and surely it is good to partner it with the juices that you mentioned.
have a nice day.
ann
have a nice day.
ann
@jinjer168 (1596)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
I am very fond of eating this kind of food stuffs because as you mentioned, they're not only delicious but cheap as, can be bought readily and could satisfy my cravings because of so many endless choices available around. I love banana que, camote que, ice cramble, kwek kwek, balut, fishballs, sqid balls, cheese sticks, kikiam, siomai and waffles. Whenever im craving for any of them, I could assure myself that I had money to buy for them for they are really affordable. Sago and gulaman is my favorite drink and I just pick the food cart whom I know serves clean of these favorite street foods of mine. Good night!
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@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
hi jinjer,
surely i love all that you mentioned here too.
see here i was able to get a "bilao" of kakanin. i dont get to hear vendors walking and shouting as they pass by my home lately. they probably have a stall now. 
have a nice day.
ann
have a nice day.
ann
@Rapuncille (597)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
upon reading your post, i suddenly missed UP. Aside from quality education, it has also been a haven for street food addicts (be it with the jologs and the sossy alike). I love the isaw at kalay and the now defunct ilang branch, the mangga with bagooong and the flavored corn and corn cobs sold outside shopping center, the fishballs and kwek-kwek sold at the main lib, the bananaQ,kamoteQ, maruya and lumpia from the bilao, even the on-the-go aristo-cart which sells a variety of viand with rice at a very affordable price.
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
hi rapuncille,
you made my mouth water when you mentioned of mangga with bagoong. but i wonder why you miss it all. you have probably graduated now. or maybe you are somewhere out of the country?
surely there will be other places with those street food.
hope you get to have them again.
have a nice day.
ann
but i wonder why you miss it all. you have probably graduated now. or maybe you are somewhere out of the country?
surely there will be other places with those street food.
hope you get to have them again.
have a nice day.
ann@Rapuncille (597)
• Philippines
27 Mar 11
I'm both! I am an alumni and is currently out of the country and most of the street foods that we have back home is not available here in this part of the world unfortunately. Hopefully when i get to come home i'll be paying a visit to my alma mater, the place where my hunger for both knowledge and street foods were catered and satisfied. :)
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
Isaw and barbecue are just two of the street foods i like.
Though, i seldom eat them, because i know they are high in cholesterol and not so clean because they are sold on the streets where jeepneys and buses passes by. But, other than that , i do like them also.
yes, banana cue too is one street food i like.
@Kalyni2011 (3496)
• India
29 Mar 11
Dear Anny
Here in my city you can see road side food stalls, they sell idli, dosa, upma, singada, vada, noodles , gupchup to mention few
When I go to the mall with hubby, we usually stop in some favorite stalls, eat what we like forgetting our health issues..
Thanks for this post
Happy posting, cheers.
Namastey.
Kalyani
Happy posting, cheers.
Namastey.
Kalyani
@gelayagui98 (1336)
• Australia
31 Mar 11
Our favorite street food is the fishball for my kids and kikiam for me but instead of buying from the street vendor, I just buy it in the supermarket and cooked same with the sauce.
@pmdamodar (11)
• India
28 Mar 11
i like street food a lot they are very tasty and the only place where we could experience the taste of village foods are street food shops
@pmdamodar (11)
• India
28 Mar 11
I always prefer street foods they are very tasty and of course they are cheaper also. During night we can find street food shops a lot in some areas they are very costly but it is very tasty . Street foods main attraction is that we can get village foods a lot which we cant get in big reastuarents.
