Filipino Street Food... Anyone?

I'll be featuring some foods that is uniquely pinoy.  Please take note of its names too.. Filipino ingenuity at its best.

Chicken is one of the best source of street food. see drawing below:

The only part that's inedible (hence no commercial value) on a chicken are its feathers.

Chicken neck (aka Kurbata) is sold either fried or grilled.

Chicken feet (Adidas™) and curdled chicken or pork blood, cubed and grilled (Betamax)

Chicken intestines (aka Isaw / IUD) and barbecued pig ears (Walkman) are great served as 'pulutan'.

Chicken head (Helmet)

Kwek - kwek (quail egg) and Tokneneng (penoy, egg. or balut)  boiled, covered in orange colored flour and fried.

Fishball, Day-old chick, kikiam, and Squid / Chicken Ball. 

and finally, street food that doesn't include chicken or pork:

Bibingka (rice cake)

Puto Bumbong - purple-colored sweet cooked in tubes that are placed on a steamer-cooker. When cooked, they are removed from the bamboo tubes, spread with butter and sprinkled with sugar and niyog (grated coconut).

And what a good way after consuming the above delicacies, than with these 'pantulak': 

The Samalamig or Palamig, from the root word lamig meaning cold, are prepared beverages that contain sago (tapioca pearls) and gulaman (gelatin), and are usually flavored with syrup from a wide variety of fruit extracts. As the name suggests, it is used to refresh and nourish everyone's thirst, especially during the hot Summer season. Usually served in plastic cups and small plastic bags used for ice, this typical Filipino beverage is being sold everywhere and to anyone who wants to satisfy the need to quench their thirst at anytime of the day. In a country filled with junk and low nutrition food, the samalamig provides the necessary vitamins and minerals needed to fill the nutrient deficiencies of the Filipino people.

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