Fruits, street food, etc.

Street Food

 Our daily routine is usually some variation of this: swim at Ateneo’s pool before it closes at 8am, Fritz goes off to nap and work in his office at IPC and Grace returns to the apartment to have breakfast and make lunch to eat in IPC, both of us joining the IPC researchers in the lounge for lunch, a few more hours of work in IPC, heading back to our apartment around 4pm, and finally heading out for an evening walk.  Our walk home in the afternoon, though less than a mile, often takes 30 or 40 minutes because of all the fruit and street snack stops we make and the small talk that accompanies them.   Aside from produce, the foods sold on our street follow a schedule similar to other barangays in Manila and the provinces.  Here is our street’s selection.  When we do finally reach our apartment we have an early dinner of siao mai, maruya or turon, pan de coco, and LOTS of mango.  CNN did a nice write-up of SE Asian street food here. 

Sunrise to 9 or 10am:

Pan de sal­- simple sweet roll, often dunked in coffee

Pancit, macaroni – pre-bagged and precooked noodle dishes people take along to work

11am:

ulam – variations of meat/vegetable combinations to be eaten with rice

lumpia­ – fried eggroll stuffed with hearts of palm, bean sprouts, and tofu served with a spicy vinegar

Shanghai ­– slender fried eggroll stuffed with ground pork

 3pm:

maruya: battered and fried banana slice

banana cue– two skewered bananas fried in a caramel mixture

turon – halved bananas wrapped in a lumpia pastry wrapper and then fried in the same caramel mixture

monay – plain sweet milk bread

pan de coco ­­- same sweet bread as monay, but filled with a sugar/grated coconut mixture

ensaymada – sweet cheesy brioche-type bread

siao mai ­– steamed pork, shrimp, or beef dumplings drizzled with garlic chutney, soy sauce, and calamansi

mais – steamed or grilled corn

6pm:

fish balls – deep-fried ground fish dumpling

balut – partially fertilized duck egg

kwek-kwek – quail or quail egg fried in a neon orange batter

isaw­- grilled and skewered intestines

offal/betamix – grilled squares of coagulated pig or chicken blood, usually three bricks per skewer

adidas ­– grilled chicken feet

helmet – grilled and skewered chicken heads

papaya, one of three varieties

inside of papaya

monay

TURON!

Siao Mai

baby mangos and regular size

lanzones

lumpia (in bag with spiced vinegar)

pan de coco

Maruya (banana fritters)

bagoong and green mangos

outside our apartment, where we buy everything but fruit

banana cue

kaimitan (star apple)

mais

papaya on a tree (as soon it started to turn yellow someone harvested it)

tinapang isda (smoked fish) from the woman we buy fruit from

langka (Jackfruit) tree on way in to Ateneo