A pleasant day Hivians! Let me share to you our recent bonding after class as college students whose stomachs are growling in hungriness after our whole day class. We are students from Western Mindanao State University, a prestigious university in the Philippines, and we are a free tuition school. This was a very hard and tiring day because many deadlines are coming up as we are approaching the Midterms week. So here we are, we decided to have a little bonding and eating after our classes , because why not? We deserve to eat something if we are stressed, right? So here it is! The Filipino streetfoods we happily ate together. I hope you enjoy reading this one.
To start, his is "fishball" and also called as tusok-tusok. This is a ground fish, vegetables, and some spices mixed with flour, and then round it into a ball and fry. A sauce is added after and then yum!
Mostly "fishball" or tusok-tusok is really skewed in a stick, but I bought too many fishballs and it cannot fit in a stick, so Manong TIndero (the streetfood seller) just put it in a plate.
Next, we have kwek-kwek. This is an egg coated with orange flour and deep fried. After being cooked, it is prepared with sea moss or spiny seaweed, and a sour and spicy vinegar. But you can also add your own sauce like tomato sauce and soy sauce, it is just here in the Philippines, kwek-kwek's sauce is normally vinegar with a spiny seaweed.
Then, this is a "cheeseball". Basically, from it's name, it is a cheese wrapped with flour and coated with breadcrumbs. It is deep fried then a cheesy sauce and tomato sauce or also known as ketchup in the Philippines, are added for a finishing touch.
Lastly, let me introduce to you the balut, a unique Filipino cultural streetfood. Balut is simply a steamed egg of a duck. But what made it unique and originally Filipino? The egg is fertilized, so basically, there is a formed duckling embryo inside the egg. But the size of egg varies on how many days the eggs are incubated.
There is also a variety where it is already fertilized but there is no formed embryo yet. This variety is called a balut penoy.
These are the Filipino streetfoods I could share to you today, my dear Hivians. There are still a lot of Filipino streetfoods but let's save it for next part of our Filipino streetfood series. I hope you enjoyed reading this one! Until next time :)
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