• Overview

• The Philippines is also one of the rich nations in terms of

Topic 3: food items that emanate from different sources. Yet even the
country is rich in rare and unusual foods and they are
considered not only exotic but also delicacies. Exotic foods
Philippine are a term applied to culinary products that are considered
exotic, novel, or taboos from the point of view of the native
Exotic and culture of a person. Eating foods such as Balut, Soup No.5,
or frog meat may be considered exotic to many people living
Street Foods in the Philippines. While street foods, which are prevalent
also in other countries, are those convenient, relatively
inexpensive and readily accessible food items which are
fried or grilled, in scoops or sticks. All these tasty delicacies
prepared and sold in public outdoor areas are part of the
regular fare of most Filipinos.

• In this chapter, students will learn something new that will

expand their knowledge of exotic and street foods, later
based on other similar studies in their future study and
additional information on exotic and street foods.

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 CENTRAL LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Home Science and Technology

Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management

HOSPM 2105:
Philippine
Regional
Cuisines
Prepared by:
Asst.Prof. Michelle A. Domingo

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 Objectives:
The students will enable them to:

Identify and be familiarized with

1 Philippine exotic or street foods;

Describe the characteristics of

2 exotic and street foods;

Understand human cultural and

3 social diversity;
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 LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
• EXOTIC FOODS is a
term that is applied to culinary
items which are considered
unusual, novel, or taboo from
the perspective of an
individual's native culture. To
many people living in the
EXOTIC
Philippines, eating foods such
as Balut, Soup no.5, or frog
FOODS
meat may be considered exotic.
In some Filipinos, eating exotic
foods has been a typical l even
though it seems that it became
part of their eating habit and
do not regard this food as an
exotic and often consume it as
“pulutan” with liquors.

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• Balut is primarily a popularly
recognized Philippine delicacy made
from incubated duck eggs. The ideal
balut is incubated for 17 to 18 days,
when the embryo is still covered
with a whitish cover and has not yet
grown fully. In most eastern and
southeast Asian countries, including
Laos and Thailand, it is still
popularly known and widely
consumed. Chinese merchants
introduced the art of producing
incubated eggs to the Philippines
during the sixteenth century, when
they settled along the shores of
Laguna de Bay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d
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 List of Exotic Foods in the
Philippines…

BALUT ABUOS OR ITLOG NG EBUN BARAG/ OR ITLOG

a popularly recognized
Filipino delicacy, is a boiled
17-to-19-day-old embryo of
duck containing broth, bone
duckling, feathers, beak,
and yolk. Penoys, on the
other hand, are hard-boiled
duck eggs without the
fetus.
HANTIK
an Ilocano delicacy usually
cooked in adobo by Ilocanos
which is rich in protein
NG BAYAWAK
traditionally prepared by
soft boiling the egg. Then,
its contents are squeezed
through a small hole and
eaten in different ways
usually served with rice.

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 List of Exotic Foods in the
Philippines…

USA TAMILOK SAWA

Tapang Usa, rooted by Palawan's tamilok is an usually cooked in adobo
Aetas known for hunting oyster-taste tastes like way and taste like
in forests, is sweet and raw wood worm which is chicken
salty, and is usually slimy and salty usually
overlaid with garlic to prepared kinilaw and
add flavor. eaten with vinegar,
calamansi juice, pepper
and onions

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 List of Exotic Foods in the
Philippines…

DAGANG BUKID BUWAYA PALAKANG BUKID

a good source of protein can not your regular lechon but Kapampangan’s famous
be cooked with coconut this taste can be compared exotic delicacy is roasted
milk which is called in the to chicken albeit with a and made into “rellenong
Philippines as “ginataang strong pungent smell; palaka” (Betute tugak )or
daga,” or with tamarind crocodile sisig is prevalent stuffed frogs.
which is called in Palawan and Davao
“sinampalukang daga.”
Farm rats can also be
cooked into adobo or simply
deep-fried with breading

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 List of Exotic Foods in the
Philippines…
MOLE CRICKETS
also considered a
Kapampangan delicacy and
farmer’s nutrient dense exotic
dish, cooked in adobo way that
is juicy and flavorful.
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SOUP No. 5
believed to have aphrodisiac
properties, this exotic soup is
made from bull's sex organs
like testes or penis which is
also believed to be cure for
hangover
UOK
considered as a protein-rich
exotic delicacy which is cooked
as adobo served with rice and
tomatoes. On the other hand,
the beetles or "salangubang"
are usually roasted as it emits
a foul smell. The cooked beetle
is crisp and juicy and can be
accompanied with hard liquor.
 List of Exotic Foods in the
Philippines…

fruit bats are exotic BAKASI OR BABY KUHOL OR SUSO

delicacy in certain EELS Can be found in
provinces of the Cordova, Cebu’s river or farm fields
Philippines like prized catch baby which is cook best
Iloilo that definitely eels which is usually with coconut milk
tastes like chicken caught in abundance (guinataan suso)
cooked in adobo or usually cooked with
fried soup or deep fried

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56nkDO
SXJPI

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DfzRR
kiPX4

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STREET FOODS
Urbanization has led to street food
vendors proliferating the
migration of people from rural to
urban areas and hawkers has this
has resulted in the need to feed
large numbers of working people
away from a place of residence for
them. With the rising pace of
urbanization in street food vending
in the Philippines is a common
form and distinctive part of street
food. A broad informal sector that
provides a way for suppliers to
uphold their livelihood. It is
frequently seen in public places,
certainly in busy streets and

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commercial districts.
STREET FOODS
In most other countries, Filipino
street food is popular. These are
easy, reasonably inexpensive and
simply accessible. Fried or grilled,
in cups or sticks, all of those tasty EXOTIC
treats prepared and sold publicly
outdoors are a part of the regular FOODS
fare of most Filipinos. Street foods
are ready-to-eat foods and
beverages that are prepared and/or
sold, specifically on the streets and
in other public places, by itinerant
or stationary vendors (FAO ,
2009).

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Street foods often reflect traditional
local cultures and exist in an endless
variety. Vendors’ stalls are usually
located outdoors or under a roof which
is definitely accessible from the road.
Street food businesses are usually
owned and operated by individuals or
families but benefits from their trade
extend throughout the local economy.
Street foods often reflect traditional
local cultures and exist in an endless
variety. In addition, there is a lot of
diversity within the raw materials as
well as in the preparation of street
food , snacks and meals. Vendors'
stalls are usually located outdoors or
under a roof which is well accessible
from the road. They need low-cost
seating facilities which are sometimes
rudimentary. Their marketing success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1EwhDGd
depends exclusively on location and
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word-of-mouth promotion.
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 List of Street Foods…
Abnoy pancake cooked with unhatched
incubated duck egg

Adidas marinated chicken feet, cooked

adobo style and grilled

Arroz Caldo or rice porridge cooked with or without

Lugaw chicken or egg and kasubha

Atay grilled pork or chicken liver

Balun-balunan grilled chicken gizzard

Banana-que deep fried plantain, preferably saba,

covered with brown caramelized
sugar

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Barbeque marinated pork or chicken meat grilled
on skewers
Batchoy originally from La Paz, Iloilo miki noodle
soup garnished with pork innards (liver,
kidney and heart), chicharon (pork skin
cracklings), chicken breast, vegetables
and topped with a raw egg
Betamax curdled pork or chicken blood, grilled into
chunks
Bibingka glutinous rice flour pancakes cooked in
traditional clay pot topped with salted
egg, cheese or ham
Binatog boiled white corn kernels served with salt
or sugar, grated coconut and/ or milk
Bopis minced pig's heart and lungs sauteed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
with garlic and onion and seasoned with =0A_GOXneAjo

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laurel, oregano, bell pepper and vinegar
 List of Street Foods…
Botsi chicken esophagus, deep-fried or
grilled
Calamares battered and deep fried squid rings

Calamay or glutinous rice cakes; varieties all

Kalamay over the country

Camote que deep-fried camote (sweet potato)

covered with caramelized brown
sugar
Carioca or deep-fried glutinous rice flour cakes
Karyoka/ Karioka served on skewers

Cheese sticks deep-fried cheese wrapped in spring

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 List of Street Foods…
Chicharon or made either from pork skin, chicken
Cracklings skin or pork intestine, boiled and
seasoned, sun-dried and deep-fried
i.e. chicharon baboy, chicharon
manok, chicharon bituka and
chicharon bulaklak
Chicharon Bituka pork or chicken intestine boiled,
seasoned and deep-fried
Chicharon pork omentum boiled, seasoned and
Bulaklak deep-fried
Chicharon Manok chicken skin cracklings
Chicken Balls balls made with chicken meat, deep
fried and served in skewers with a
sweet, sour or spicy sauce

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Chicken Skin chicken skin battered and deep fried
served with vinegar
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Day-old Chicks literally day-old chicks deep-fried to a crisp,
served with sauce or vinegar
Empanada (Batac) pork longganisa, whole egg and grated green
papaya in a rice flour shell, deep-fried and
served with vinegar
Goto rice porridge or congee cooked with ox or
beef tripe garnish with toasted garlic,
scallions, ground black pepper and with or
without chicharon
Halo-halo concoction of various sweet treats like
banana, kamote, beans and kundol
preserves, ube, leche flan and buco strips,
crushed ice and milk that are put together to
culminate into one great cold treat
Helmet adobo braised and grilled chicken head
Isaw collective term for pork or chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch
intestines, cleaned thoroughly, braised and ?v=sL4AloRMD4U
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grilled or battered and deep fried served
with spiced vinegar or sweet and sour sauce
 List of Street Foods…
Iskrambol dessert made shaved ice, skim milk, sugar,
banana extract dye in pink food coloring
and topped with powdered milk, chocolate
syrup.
Kakanin collective term for snacks made with
glutinous rice flour like puto, kutsinta,
palitaw, biko, sapin-sapin, espasol, etc..

Lomi egg drop noodle soup made with miki

noodles, meat and vegetables thickened
with cornstarch

Longganisa pork sausage grilled or fried on a skewer

Lumpia spring rolls which varieties include

lumpiang shanghai; lumpiang sariwa,
lumpiang ubod; lumpiang prito;

Mais boiled white or golden corn seasoned with

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salt, butter or margarine
 List of Street Foods…
Mais con Yelo traditional dessert of crushed ice layered
with corn kernels and sweetened milk

Mami filipino version of chicken noodles soup

Manggang Hilaw green mango served with cooked shrimp

paste
Mani peanuts either boiled, roasted or deep-fried
and seasoned with garlic and salt with or
without skin

Maruya fried battered banana

Nilupak/ nilubak or pounded kamoteng kahoy (cassava) or

Nilubyan kamote or saging saba mixed with brown
sugar and coconut milk and served with https://www.youtube.com/watch?
grated young coconut in banana leaves v=vudyMF5gerQ
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 List of Street Foods…
Panara Pampanga's delicacy deep-fried crab and
grated green papaya empanada usually sold
during Christmas season
Pancit stir fry or soup based noodles which
varieties are batchoy (Iloilo); batil patung
(Tuguegarao) - pancit bihon; pancit canton,
pancit guisado, pancit habhab (Lucban);
pancit lomi; pansit luglog (Pampanga and
Tagalog Region) ; pancit malabon (Malabon);
pancit molo (Iloilo); pancit palabok; pancit
puti (Manila); and pancit sotanghon among
many others
Pares translated as "pair," means the pairing of
rice with tender braised beef
Penoy fetus less hard-boiled duck egg
Proven or Proben hard portion of chicken entrails that is
either braised and grilled or battered and
deep fried serve with spiced vinegar or sweet

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Pusit
and sour sauce
squid grilled or deep fried on skewer
 List of Street Foods…
Puto bumbong street food also considered as a delicacy that
is traditionally served during the Christmas
season, a rice cake made of steamed black
glutinous rice or “pirurutong” cooked in
bamboo then served with margarine, grated
coconut and palm sugar granules

Quek quek or Kwek hard boiled quail eggs that are dipped in
Kwek orange colored flour batter, deep fried, and
served with a sweet and sour sauce

Samalamig collective term for sago’t gulaman, buco,

melon, milo beverages

Siomai steamed pork or chicken dumplings

Siopao steamed pork stuffed buns

Sisig roasted pig's jowl, ears, and snout, chicken

liver, onions and chili, chopped and flavored https://www.youtube.com/wa
with calamansi served on a hot metal plate tch?v=mPHBx6Mm8Tw
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 List of Street Foods…
Sorbetes street ice cream or “dirty ice cream” made
with local fruits in season sold by peddlers
Squid Balls, fishballs, frozen processed seafoods, skewered and
kikiam deep fried usually serve with sweet and sour
sauce
Taho classic sweet treat made with silken tofu,
tapioca pearls, and simple brown sugar
syrup best served warm
Tenga ng Baboy or braised pork’s ears grilled on skewers
Walkman
Tokneneng hard boiled chicken eggs that are dipped in
orange colored flour batter, deep fried, and
served with a sweet and sour sauce
Tupig popular native delicacy from Pangasinan
which is made out of glutinous rice flour and
coconuts strips wrapped in banana leaves
then chargrilled
Turon plantain or saba rolled in sugar with or

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lumpia wrapper and deep fried
 Summary:
• Exotic foods are considered unusual, novel, or taboo from
the perspective of an individual's native culture. To many
people living in the Philippines, eating foods such as Balut,
Soup no.5, or frog meat may be considered exotic. Balut is a
popularly recognized Philippine delicacy made from
incubated duck eggs.
• With the rising pace of urbanization in the Philippines,
street food vending is a common form and distinctive part
of street food. Street foods are ready-to-eat foods and
beverages that are prepared and/or sold by itinerant or
stationary vendors. Vendors' stalls are usually located
outdoors or under a roof which is well accessible from the
road. Street food businesses are usually owned and
operated by individuals or families but benefits from their
trade extend throughout the local economy. In most other
countries, Filipino street food is popular. These are easy,
reasonably inexpensive and simply accessible.

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 Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. and Fernandez, D. (2003). Culture Ingested: On the
Indigenization of Phillipine Food. Gastronomica. 3. 58-71. 10.1525/gfc.2003.3.1.58.

Besa, A. and Dorotan, R. (2006). Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes Far
ADDITIONAL and Near, Ney York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 232 pp

READINGS Barreto, G.S., Forés, M., Calalang, C., Sincioco, J., Segismundo, M. and Tayag, C. (2008)
Kulinarya: A Guidebook to Philippine Cuisine, Published and exclusively distributed by
Anvil Pub

Calopez, C.G., Herbalega, C.M.L., Canonicato, Cora J., Espano, M.F. and Francisco, J.M.
(2017). Food Safety Awareness and Practices of Street Food Vendors in Iloilo City, CEBU
International Conference on Studies in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (SASSH-17)
Jan. 26-27, 2017, Cebu

Consumers’ Behavior on Exotic foods. (2017) Retrieved from

https://studymoose.com/consumers-behavior-on-exotic-foods-essay

https://primer.com.ph/tips-guides/2019/06/13/a-guide-to-filipino-sawsawan-dipping-sauces/

https://www.splendidtable.org/story/filipino-food-a-cuisine-of-many-influences

DHTM - CHSI/CLSU http://www.ivanhenares.com/2007/03/flavors-of-metro-manilas-streets.html

https://hubpages.com/food/The-Exotic-Foods-in-the-Philippines
 ACTIVITY TIME
REFLECTION PAPER:
Objectives:
The purpose of this paper is for you to reflect on your insights
in this videos presented in Topic 3 (ppt) and integrate your
learning from the course material (Module 1) by answering
the following guide questions:
• Based on your own experience, how would you describe the
importance of exotic and street foods in the Philippines?
• What exotic food/s have you tried? How would you describe
your experience in tasting exotic food/s?
• If you tried eating street foods, what are your perceptions
about it? What do you think why most people love street
foods?
• Do foreign influences contribute in the cultural identity of
Philippine cuisine through exotic and street foods?

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Paper Requirements:
Length: The final paper should be 1-2 pages short (single-spaced), using
11-point Times New Roman font.
Inclusion of Readings:
Please make specific reference to readings and other course materials to
support, clarify, and contextualize your ideas. Rest assured that you have
not only read and understood assigned readings, but also thought about
them in relation to your own experiences and learning.
Grading Criteria:
Because students learn different things in different ways, there are no
“right or wrong” answers.
Papers will be evaluated on content depth and quality. A thoughtful, well-
written paper will include:
Integrative, coherent and well-organized writing;
Specific examples and detailed descriptions of learning experiences that
were important for
you;
Reflections on your thought processes while you went through the
seminar;
Clear and precise connections between readings, concepts, and examples
from class.
Submission Date:
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