Only In The Philippines : Street Foods A-Z
Abnoy – unhatched incubated duck egg or bugok which is mixed with flour and water and cooked like pancakes
Balut – hard-boiled duck egg with fetus
Carioca (also Karyoka, Karioka) – deep-fried glutinous rice flour cakes served on skewers
Day-old chicks – literally day-old chicks deep-fried to a crisp, served with sauce or vinegar
Empanada (Batac) – pork longganiza, egg and grated green papaya in a rice flour shell, deep-fried and served with vinegar
Fishballs – balls made with fish meat, most often from pollock, deep fried and served in skewers with a sweet, sour or spicy sauce
Goto – rice porridge or congee cooked with beef tripe
Hepalog (also Toknonong) - hard-boiled duck eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried
Isaw - collective term for different types of grilled chicken and pork innards; varieties include isaw manok, isaw baboy, atay, goto, botsi, balun-balunan, and tenga ng baboy
Kikiam - the special ones are made of ground pork and vegetables wrapped in bean curd sheets, deepfried and served with sweet, sour or spicy sauce; those in the street are seafood-based, usually made of fish meat and cuttlefish
Lumpia – spring rolls; varieties include lumpiang basa, lumpiang hubad – fresh spring rolls without the wrapper; lumpiang prito; lumpiang sariwa – fresh srping rolls; lumpiang shanghai; lumpiang ubod, and turon
Maruya - banana fritters
Nilupak - mashed kamoteng kahoy (cassava) or kamote (sweet potato) with brown sugar and served with butter or margarine
Palitaw – glutinous rice flour pancakes topped with grated young coconut, sugar and roasted sesame seeds
Quekquek (also Toknanay) – hard boiled chicken eggs dipped in orange batter and deep-fried; also used for quail eggs, but some say the correct term for the quail egg version is tokneneng; the balut version is sometimes referred to as hepalog
Sapin-sapin – layered glutinous rice and coconut milk cake usually topped with grated coconut and latik (residue from coconut oil extraction); different flavor per layer such as ube (purple yam), macapuno (young coconut), kutsinta and langka (jackfruit)
Tupig (also Itemtem) – glutinous rice, grated mature coconut, coconut milk and molasses rolled in banana leaves and grilled; varieties in Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte (Batac) and Isabela
Walkman – marinated pig’s ears grilled on skewers
Popularity: 7%
Popularity: 7%
