We may be poor but we never go hungry. The streets of Manila is filled with vendors selling all kinds of street food: a wide variety of meats and eggs; nuts, chips and pork rind; there’s even different kinds of fruits!

If you want something grilled, there’s the common barbecue (both chicken and pork), then there’s out of the ordinary: pig’s blood (betamax), chicken heads (helmet), chicken feet (adidas) and of course the infamous chicken or pig intestines (isaw).

For something deep fried, there’s fishball, squidballs, kikiam (usually processed chicken), hot dogs, quail eggs in orange batter (quek-quek) and eggs in orange batter (tokneneng). Then again for something different, try the deep fried day old chick. After all these, you can get a banana-q or kamote-q which are basically deep fried banana or yam with brown sugar. There’s also a variation called turon or deep fried banana wraps with brown sugar.

For the adventurist in you, there’s the aborted duck egg fetus (balut) and aborted duck egg without fetus (penoy). For the health buff, there’s Taho which you can get without the syrup or tapioca balls (sago).

These are just some of the common street foods you can find so if you feel you want something trivial or something more exotic, we are proud to have all of these food ready for you to try on the streets of Manila.

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