April’s Blog13
STREET FOODS IN CEBU
Hi everyone, in my blog I will be introducing and talking about “street foods in Cebu”.
The first street food is “tempura”.
Filipinos also loved to eat Japanese food like Tempura. Tempura is a known street food in the Philippines and Filipinos have their own tempura recipe and flavor. It is a fried Japanese food filled with shelled shrimp and dipped in batter or even with vegetables. You can find a strolling tempura vendors with his bike and cart in most of the street and public area of any provinces of the Philippines. Vendors can cook tempura while you wait in just their stance or bikes and you can also choose your tempura pieces in their basket since there are some tempura which is small and big, sizes are different exactly but when it’s already been boiled, it will just sprout from it’s raw small size.
The second street food is “kwek- kwek”.
One of the most popular street food in the Philippines is Kwek-kwek especially in Manila, it is easy to bake and it’s one of the best appetizer for street workers and students in the Philippines. Kwek-kwek is made up with quail eggs (Itlog ng Pugo)(boiled) and wrapped with orange tinted batter then fried. There is also a popular variation of Kwek-kwek which they called it “Toknenang” unlike Kwek-kwek Toknenang is made up with chicken eggs not chicken eggs. Though kwek-kwek has also another variation many people and tourist were confused due to the similarities of both street foods. Owing to the fact of the popularity of these foods, most schools and universities in Manila has stalls for kwek-kwek and other street foods outside their campus. Since it is cheap students can afford to buy kwek-kwek as an treat to their friends and classmates outside the school campus.
The third street food is “fish ball”.
Once you have gone to the Philippines you will be experiencing eating delicious foods in the street, sidewalks and schools. For an instance while you’re on your way to work or in a journey you will surely get hungry in streets so most Filipinos has established an mini cart that cook and sells foods while in the street and in any public and populated area. Fish ball is one of those foods that they can cook in their mini cart while you wait, it is delicious and cheap and most kids, students and street workers love to eat it. Nearly all of fish ball vendors skewed fish balls on a bamboo stick and there are some vendors just placed it in a plastic or paper plate. Literally, every fish ball vendors has different sauce flavors for their fish balls, there are sweet sauce, sweet and sour, salty and spicy flavor. However most customers loved the spicy sauce flavor.
These are just a few examples of my favorite street foods in Cebu. I do believe that “Once tasted, always wanted” because these are not only delicious but these are cheap for everyone.
最初のストリートフード “tempura”.
フィリピン人も天ぷらのような和食が好きです。Tempuraはフィリピンで知られている屋台で、フィリピン人は自分好みのレシピを持っています。殻付きのエビが入っていて、バターにつけて食べたりします。フィリピンのあらゆる州のストリートや公共エリアで、自転車とカートで提供しているテンプラの提供者たちを見つけることができます。提供者たちは、自転車がある場所のみで作っていて、小さいものや大きいものを彼らのバケットから選び取ることができます。それらはすでにボイルされているものになります。
２つ目のストリートフード “kwek- kwek”.
フィリピンで最も人気のあるストリートフードのひとつで、特にマニラでは労働者や学生にとって最高の前菜です。
うずらの卵で作れていて、オレンジ色のバターに包まれて揚げられています。kwek-kwekはkwek-Toknenang の類似品でもあるため観光客にとっては混乱をまねきます。人気がある食べ物なので、マニラの学校や大学ではいたるところにあります。安いので学生にとっても購入しやすいです。
３つ目のストリートフード “fish ball”.
みなさんがフィリピンに行ったらすぐに、街や道際、学校などで美味しいストリートフードを食べることになるでしょう。
例えば仕事場までの道のりで大概の人はお腹がへります。そんなときに備えてフィリピン人は、人通りがある場所で販売できるミニカートを作りました。fish ballは、彼らがミニカートで調理できる食品のひとつで、学生や労働者にとっての好物です。提供者のほとんどが、竹の棒にfish ballをさして、中にはプラスチック製のものを利用している人もいます。色んな味のソースがあり、甘いもの、甘酸っぱいもの、塩辛いもの、辛いものなど様々です。しかし、ほとんどのお客さんは辛いソースを好みます。
これらはセブにある私のお気に入りの屋台で売られている食べ物のほんの一部です。 私は「一度味わった、すぐに欲しくなる」と信じていますが、これらはおいしいだけでなく、安いのも魅力です。