Welcome to Aubrey and Geraldine’s Food Blog! We would like to take you to one of our culture ,the street foods here in the Philippines. We love to stop by to the vendors who sells street foods for us and our friends to enjoy. It is delicious and affordable!
- FISHBALL
One of the most famous street food here is the fishball.
Fish ball is an edible, ball-shaped patty made of pulverized fish. It is most often made from the meat of cuttlefish or pollock and served with a sweet and spicy sauce!
2. TOKNENENG!
A popular street food in the Philippines, tokneneng are hard boiled chicken eggs that are dipped in orange colored flour batter, deep fried, and served with a sweet and sour sauce.
3. KIKIAM
Next up is the kikiam!
These are made of ground pork and vegetables wrapped in bean curd sheets. They are then deep fried and dipped in sauce similar to fishballs.
4. SQUIDBALL
We also have the squidball that are not made of the testicles of a squid, but rather cooked balls of puréed squid. The raw squid is puréed, mixed with some flour and spices, formed into a ball and then steamed or fried.
5. CALAMARIS
We have the Calamaris, made from squid less than 12 inches in length. It involves removing the head, cartilage, and innards from the squid, and then typically cutting the meat crosswise to create strips.
6. TURON
The turon, a Philippine snack made of thinly sliced bananas (preferably saba or Cardaba bananas), dusted with brown sugar, rolled in a spring roll wrapper and fried.
It is a fried, lumpia-wrapper-enveloped dessert filled with sweet mung bean; while valencia is used for the banana-filled variety.
7. MARUYA
We have also the maruya, usually made from saba bananas. The most common variant is prepared by coating thinly sliced and “fanned” bananas in batter and deep frying them. They are then sprinkled with sugar.
8. BANANA CUE
Banana cue is made with deep fried bananas coated in caramelized brown sugar, skewered on a bamboo stick. The bananas used for this recipe are Saba bananas, which are very commonly used for cooking in the Philippines.
9. BALUT
Balut is a chicken or duck egg which is half boiled and then eaten directly from the shell. It is commonly sold as a street food in The Philippines; you can often see it being sold in the streets across the country. Balut is a sixteen to twenty-one day old fertilised egg of a duck or chicken.
10. TAHO
Taho is a classic sweet snack in the Philippines made with silken tofu, sago or tapioca pearls, and a simple brown sugar syrup. This is traditionally served warm, but it can also be enjoyed chilled.
Delicious, right? It’s just pulling you to try it out! Then go! Try it out now, it’s everywhere, very cheap and make you crave for more!!!
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