Cheap, satisfying, yummy street food I eat!

I love street food.  The wife might cringe and make funny faces, but I do plan to introduce Athalia to the wonderful world of street food.  To be honest, however, I haven't really gotten my fill of these tasty and cost-efficient (sosyal version ng mura!) delicacies.  I miss...


Balut.

Ok, so maybe not that much.  I was able to corner a balut vendor outside the gates of our compound a couple of weeks back.  Yummy!

Kwek-kwek.

These are actually quail eggs that are fried in some mysterious orange batter.  I don't get these here in Cebu, but a bigger variety is available in Lapu-Lapu's city market, am not sure though if they substituted the quail egg with chicken egg or day-old balut.  Technically, what they sell are not kwek-kwek but tokneneng.

But nothing compares to Manila's kwek-kwek.  I guess it's because the orange coating is proportionate to the size of the egg.  Over here, you get to eat too much egg with miniscule batter.

Taho

This is actually one street food that the wife approves off, somewhat. And that is because I try to buy taho while it's still very hot.  The combination of soya pudding, milk pearls and caramel syrup is just heavenly.

Isaw

Isaw is plainly chicken intestines cooked over open charcoal fire. Yum.

Palamig

Before Thirsty! came into existence, Filipinos have always quenched their thirst and tried to cool down with palamig.  I grew up trying to decide which between sago't gulaman or fresh buko should be named my favorite.  But I also loved the melon drinks, avocado shakes, and those pink things that has gelatin in them.

Tempura and fishball. 

 

I don't think a Filipino exists today that have never tasted these.

Scrambol

Honestly, this is one street food that I sorely miss.  I think that it has been a good 15 years since I last had this.  A pink liquid blended with crushed ice (this is not strawberry mind you) comes out a creamy, yummy and cold drink, topped with powdered milk and some cheap version of Hershey's choco.  Some top it with sago.  This is the original shaved ice baby!

Dirty goto, dirty mami and dirty ice cream.

As a kid, I snacked on dirty goto and dirty mami, depending on which vendor came to our street first.  They usually have this sidecar that carried their gigantic pots and a stack of stools (wala pang monobloc nuon).  People had the option to take the goto or mami home or try and balance it on thin planks on the sidecar's sides.

I loved the dirty goto more because of the litid and the ugat.  But the mami had its moments.

And yup, who grew up here and entered their teens without this?

Yup, dirty ice cream.  A favorite of mine was to have it served sandwiched in a burger bun!

Puto bumbong

Ahhhhh... puto bumbong is my "sadly" food.

Sadly, it was only available during the early hours of the 9 day novena every Christmas season.

Sadly, it doesn't last that long.

Sadly, it's nowhere to be seen in Cebu.

And its close cousin:

Runners-up: Siomai sa Tisa, BBQ, hotdog on sticks, all other chicken parts.

Almost: I almost included Cow Label and Tarzan bubble gum having grown up with these... only that they weren't really street food.

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