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Category Archives: Food

Balbacua

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 15, 2013

A dish made from beef skin. This version from Masbate is saucy instead of soupy like those in South Mindanao.

Food, Masbate balbacua, beef skin

Roast Pig as Street Food

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 14, 2013

Packed as 1/4 or 1/2 kilo

Freshly cooked

Food, Masbate lechon, roast pig, street food

Binut-ong

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 14, 2013

Sticky rice with coconut cream inside in banana leaf packaging

Food, Masbate, Packaging banana leaf, binut-ong, kakanin, sticky rice

Molido

2 Comments Posted by Lana on July 13, 2013

Cassava, squash and sweet potato molido sold in the saudan

Cassava molido

Food, Masbate local delicacy, Masbate, molido, saud, sweets

Lucban Longganisa

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 12, 2013

This sausage from Lucban, Quezon is garlicky and salty and it is usually seasoned with vinegar when eating.

With this, you’d want to eat more rice. That good

Food, Quezon Eker & Ely, longganisa, Lucban, sausage

Skewered Chicken Intestines

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 9, 2013

Skewered chicken intestine barbecue is not an exotic food but a very common Filipino snack.
Tinae

Chicken intestines at the left. Chicken feet at the right, another common street food for snacking

Food grilled chicken intestines, isaw, Sk, street food, tinae

A Salmon of Peanuts

1 Comment Posted by Lana on July 5, 2013

A salmon of peanuts costs 30 pesos according to the price label in the picture. This unit of measurement uses an empty tin can of sardines, the big one, thus salmon.

It says salmon on the right side of the price label

An empty tin can of this size is the “salmon”

Bukidnon, Food, Local Stuff Malaybalay, peanuts, salmon

Skinned Frogs

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on June 10, 2013

ready to cook

Food, Quezon City frogs, Sidcor, Sunday market

Bibingkang Itlog

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on June 7, 2013

Bibingkang itlog is the only bibingka that is soaked or dipped in vinegar when eaten. It is made purely from penoy. Think of it as an unfertilized duck egg omelette.

That tiny slice is sold at 10 pesos

Food, Laguna bibingkang itlog, Paete, penoy, unfertilized duck egg

Pulasan

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on June 6, 2013

Pulasan is a tropical fruit similar to rambutan but has thick spines instead of hair-like ones and is easier to peel. Its seed is edible with nutty taste. I like to eat the seed more than the fruit.

Pulasan

Paete locals still call this rambutan

Food, Laguna Paete, pulasan, rambutan, Tropical fruit

Talong talong

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on June 4, 2013

If I heard it right, then talong talong is what the vendor in the public market call this vegetable which according to her is a small eggplant, bitter in taste and can be used as substitute for ampalaya.

Bukidnon, Food Malaybalay City Public Market, vegetable

Sorbetes Cart

1 Comment Posted by Lana on May 20, 2013

A traditional ice cream cart of the Philippines, a wooden cart with colorful painted designs.

Even the wheels are wooden and colorfully painted

Food, Metro Manila sorbetes; ice cream cart

Tuaran’s Tamu

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on May 9, 2013

A tamu is a gathering of sorts of local sellers on a designated day . Sunday is the day for Tuaran’s tamu in Sabah.

traditional medicines

king of the wood used for snake bites and stomach ache

petai (stink beans)

fresh fish

dried fish with chili oil

nasi lemak

rice cakes

cooking hotcakes

hotcakes

gado-gado

cendol

Food, Malaysia, Market, Produce, Sabah Borneo, tamu, Tuaran

Puto (Rice Cake)

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on April 17, 2013

Usually this type of rice cake does not have packaging, but in Iloilo it is wrapped in banana leaves. I have seen locals pair this with batchoy.

It looked dense and it really is

Wrapped puto

Food, Iloilo, Packaging banana leaf, Lapaz Public Market, puto, rice cake

Sea Flavor

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on November 21, 2012

Raw sea urchin roe tastes buttery and salty. Only a glass of gonads can be extracted from a bucket of sea urchin but it is enough to satisfy me with fresh and pure flavor of the sea.

A local girl extracting the eggs of sea urchin

Cebu, Food gonads, Moalboal, roe, sea urchin

Guinamos

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 29, 2012

Guinamos is an Ilonggo salty shrimp paste sold by blocks. A sautéed guinamos in tomatoes and pork fat is my favorite rice condiment.

Look like bricks

Food, Negros Occidental Bacolod, guinamos, shrimp paste

Nasi Lemak

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on September 21, 2012

Nasi Lemak is usually eaten for breakfast. Aside from an eating house, one can buy this from a street vendor early in the morning.

This is an easy to carry breakfast pack in a newspaper and banana leaf packaging. Cheap and portable and I have a thing for sambal.

Food, Malaysia, Packaging breakfast, Langkawi, nasi lemak, Penang

Puto Mayam

2 Comments Posted by Lana on September 15, 2012

I just found out the name of this street food I’ve snacked on in Penang. It’s rice noodle eaten with shredded coconut meat and brown sugar.
This is similar to a Philippine palitaw in taste but instead of rice cake it’s a rice noodle.