Dictionary of Filipino Street Food

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Last week, a friend of mine is telling me about stories and stuff and we happened to tumble over street food. So my friend and I wrote down different street foods and their definition. This list might not comprise all though but, I’m pretty sure we have endless possibilities.


  • Abnoy - unhatched incubated duck egg or bugok which is mixed with flour and water and cooked like pancakes

  • Adidas - chicken feet, marinated and grilled or cooked adobo style

  • Arroz caldo - rice porridge or congee cooked with chicken and kasubha; see also Lugaw

  • Atay - grilled chicken liver

  • Baga - pig’s or cow’s lungs grilled or deep-fried and served with barbeque condiments

  • Balat ng manok - see Chicken skin and Chicharon manok

  • Balun-balunan - grilled chicken gizzard

  • Balut - hard-boiled duck egg with fetus

  • Banana cue - deep-fried saba (banana) covered with caramelized brown sugar

  • Barbeque - marinated pork or chicken pieces grilled on skewers

  • Batchoy - miki noodle soup garnished with pork innards (liver, kidney and heart), chicharon (pork skin cracklings), chicken breast, vegetables and topped with a raw egg; origin traced to La Paz, Iloilo

  • Betamax - curdled chicken or pork blood, cubed and grilled

  • Bibingka - glutinous rice flour pancakes grilled with charcoal above and below in a special clay pot

  • Biko (also Bico) - glutinous rice cake with grated coconut topping

  • Binatog - boiled white corn kernels, sugar, grated coconut and milk

  • Bopis - minced pig’s heart and lungs sauteed with garlic and onion and seasoned with laurel, oregano, bell pepper and vinegar

  • Botsi - chicken esophagus, deep-fried or grilled

  • Buchi - sweet mongo paste in fried dough, usually on sticks

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