Pinoy
street food consists of simple fare that is easy to prepare and eat and
consequently have become the staples of street vendors. Some of the foods are
sold already prepared while others are cooked on the spot.
Adidas
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Grilled
chicken feet.
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Balut
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Boiled
fertilized duck or chicken eggs.
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It
is best to eat the chick and yolk with vinegar and salt.
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“Pampalakas
ng tuhod”
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Banana cue
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Skewered
saba bananas sprinkled with sugar and deep fried.
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They
are one of the popular street foods in the Philippines.
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Barbecue
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Skewered
pork or chicken strips marinated in soy sauce and calamansi and cooked over
charcoal. In Luzon, it is often dipped in vinegar; in Visayas and Mindanao, the
dip is a special sauce.
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Betamax
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Dried chicken blood that are shaped into cubes
and then grilled.
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Binatog
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Steamed
white corn kernels mixed with milk, shredded coconut with a sprinkle of sugar
or salt.
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Buchi
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Mashed
sweet potatoes coated with batter, deep fried and sprinkled with sugar.
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Calamares
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Fried breaded squids usually dipped in
vinegar.
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Chicken skin
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Deep-fried
chicken skin breaded with flour, usually dipped in vinegar.
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Cotton Candy
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Flavored
candy fiber spanned in a bamboo stick into big cotton like ball by a candy
maker with a mechanical spinner.
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Corn on the cob
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Boiled
or roasted corn, either the cheaper starchy local white corn or the more
expensive sweet yellow corn.
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Dirty ice cream
or Sorbetes
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Light
ice cream in flavors like ube, keso (cheese), and chocolate served from a
colorful cart. Also known as sorbetes.
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Fishballs and
squidballs
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Balls
formed from flaked fish or squid mixed with flour, deep fried and served with
sweet-sour, spicy vinegar, or sweet thick brown sauce.
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Fruits in season
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Depend
on the locality as well as the season, but favorites include green mango on a
skewer served with bagoong, chunks of pineapple, and watermelon slices.
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Halo-halo
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Assorted
sweetened fruits and beans, jams and flavored gelatin with evaporated milk,
sugar and shaved ice topped with ice cream and/or leche flan (egg custard).
Literally means “a mix of many things" or "an assortment,"
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Ice Candy
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Fruit
juices, milk or chocolate drinks placed in plastic bags and frozen. The usual
flavors are chocolate, buko with milk (with or without red beans), avocado,
melon and orange.
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Ice Drop
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The
local version of popsicles.
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Ice Scramble
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Sweetened
shaved ice served in a paper or plastic cup, drizzled with milk and chocolate
syrup, and eaten with a wooden Popsicle stick.
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Isaw
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Skewered
chicken intestines that are grilled and served with vinegar.
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Kikiam
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Chinese
in origin, a mixture of ground pork and vegetables rolled in thin bean curd
wrapper (tapwe) that is deep fried and served with sweet-sour sauce.
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Kwek-kwek
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Boiled
chicken eggs dipped in a flour-and-egg batter then fried.
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Mais or Corn
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Boiled
sweet corn seasoned with salt, butter or margarine.
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Maruya
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Sliced
saba bananas arranged in a fan shape, held together with a flour-and-egg
batter, deep-fried, and sprinkled with sugar.
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Peanut or Mani
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Boiled
peanuts in the shell or Nilagang mani.
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Fried
peanuts without in the shells
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Samalamig
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Prepared
beverages that contain sago (tapioca pearls) and gulaman (gelatin), and are
usually flavored with syrup from a wide variety of fruit extracts.
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Taho
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Soy
bean custard with a caramel syrup and sago (tapioca pearls).
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Turon
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Sliced
saba bananas (plantains) and sometimes nangka wrapped in lumpia wrapper, sugared
and fried.
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