Filipino Deep-fried Street Foods
Filipinos love to eat, especially deep-fried foods. Here is a list of simple but famous Filipino deep-fried street foods. Hope this list would help arouse your creativity and give you endless ideas on how your deep fryer could take you!
Banana Que – Deep fried bananas with caramelized sugar.
Deep-fried pork rind cracklings – They’re thin pieces of pork rind grilled and then deep-fried until crispy and best eaten with vinegar. Some entrepreneur already sell chicharon made out of fish skins.
Cheese Sticks– Cheese strips rolled in a lumpia wrapper then deep fried. Best dipped in mayonaise with ketchup.
Chicharong Bulaklak – Deep-fried pork intestine cracklings. They’re the pig’s intestine grilled and then deep-fried until crispy and best eaten with vinegar.
Day-old – This refers to a day-old chick that is deep-fried to a crisp and eaten with a dip of sauce or vinegar.
Fishballs – Minced fish rolled into balls. But some are made out of flour with fish flavorings. They are fried and put in skewers and dipped in either a sour dip or a spicy dip or a sweet dip.
French Fries – Potatoes cut into strips and fried. Some eat this plain with salt, others prefer adding barbeque, cheese, or sour cream flavorings, while the sophisticated ones prefers this with unique dips. Other variants are the twister fries which are spiral in shape and kriscut fries which are crisscross in shape.
Kwek Kwek – It’s balut (chicken egg) dipped in an orangey batter which are deep fried. A dip made of vinegar, onions and birds-eye chili is recommended when eating it.
Kropek – Deep fried crackers made from starch and other ingredients, such as onions, shrimp, fish, crab flavorings that usually give the taste.
Mani – Fried peanuts with garlic and salt. Some variations are spicy. Another variation are boiled peanuts with the shell.
Squidballs – Minced squid rolled into balls. But some are made out of flour with squid flavorings. They are fried and put in skewers and dipped in either a sour dip or a spicy dip or a sweet dip.
Turon a.k.a. Turrón – Banana fritters or banana spring rolls. Some varieties consists of plantain and jackfruit wrapped in a springroll wrapper, dipped in brown sugar, then fried.
Source: http://lutongpinoy.info/filipino-street-foods
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