What are the Filipino Street Foods?

The term "street foods" describes a wide range of ready-to-eat foods and beverages sold and sometimes prepared in public places, notably streets.

The most common Philippine street foods include fried squidballs, fishballs, kikiam—a type of processed chicken, which is served on a stick, with a variety of dipping sauces.

Roadside stands also serve barbecued pork, chicken and offal, such as pig's blood (colloquially, Betamax after its rectangular shape), chicken heads (helmet), chicken feet (adidas) pig's ears (tenga) and chicken intestines (isaw). Among more esoteric foods are balut and penoy (duck eggs; with fetus and without, respectively), tokneneng and quek-quek (battered, deep-fried chicken and quail eggs similar to Tempura) and deep-fried day-old-chick.

Taho, a type of soft beancurd served with syrup and tapioca balls is another snack, as are other offerings, such as burgers, hotdogs and cotton candy.

Palamig (literally, coolers) are sold, such as traditional offerings like halo-halo to fruit juices. Sorbetes (or, colloquially, "dirty ice cream"locally-produced usually with coconut milk as popularly called Pinoy sorbetes ice cream in flavors such as mango, cheese and yam )and Ice Scramble - a Filipino cold treat made up of crushed ice with flavors, skim milk and toppings usually rice crispies and marshmallows and chocolate/strawberry syrup that brings nostalgia to Pinoys.

Calamares (battered squid pieces deep-fried in cooking oil [a lot cheaper than the traditionally available]) is also widely consumed throughout the country. It is gaining its popularity because of its cheap price.