You might see people riding around your neighbourhood in a bicycle, with the bicycle having an attached cart with some sort of pan or whatever. These are the street food vendors.
Some Filipinos call street food "tusok-tusok", because most street food requires you to get a small stick, stab your chosen street food item, and if you want, dunk it into a container filled with some sort of sauce. "Tusok-tusok" can be roughly translated as "stab-stab", but it's like a light form of stabbing. (Does that even make sense?)
Just outside of the U.P Shopping Center was a stall that sold street food. It's not a restaurant, but I just wanted to blog about it because "tusok-tusok" and street food has become part of the Philippine streets as long as I can remember.
First off, the most common street food you can find is called fishballs (my auntie had this). Fishballs aren't even balls, but they're sort of small "chips" of fish, flour and other ingredients. She also had another iconic Philippine street food called kikyam, which is a mixed of vegetables and ground pork in a bean-curd wrapper. Recommended Sauce: Sweet and Sour!
I had shu mai, or as the Filipinos spell it, siomai. Shu Mai are typically pork dumplings, and are served by the Chinese as dim sum. Although not as popular as fishballs and kikyam, there have been some siomai vendors cycling with a steamer filled with the dumplings. I prefer to have them with... Recommended Sauce: Soy Sauce!
Finally, my sister and my uncle had kwek-kwek, which are basically just quail eggs dipped in a batter with the iconic orange-food-coloring color before being deep-fried. A larger version of this consists of a whole egg dipped in the batter and deep fried, called tokneneng. Recommended Sauce: Chili Oil!
Fun Fact About Euan: I don't eat street food with any kind of sauce. I would eat siomai with soy sauce, but the siomai vendors are so rare, that we just eat the savory pork dumplings in supermarket stalls.
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