Street food is ready-to-eat food or drink sold in a street or other public place, such as a market or fair, by a hawker or vendor, often from a portable stall


 Taho is bean curd, sweet (but not too sweet) arnibal (liquefied raw sugar) and soft sago (tapioca balls). Carrying a contraption that consists of two large aluminium buckets specifically designed for taho and a long narrow wooden plank, where these two buckets hang on each end. The vendors herald "TAHOOOOOO!" while walking at a considerable pace along the sidewalk. The history of taho is not yet fully understood, but early records suggest that the delicacy is from China, adapted by Filipinos.

 Ice candy, known internationally as popsicle, is just frozen juice in a plastic, the end of which you nibble on to suck the ice candy. You can find them in different flavours. (buko  (coconut), mango, etc.)

Sorbetes, nicknamed dirty ice cream is just home made ice cream that is sold by street vendors pushing colourful carts.  It was probably called that way to differentiate it from the branded ice cream made by big international ice cream makers.


Mani are peanuts. You can get them skinless (hubad na mani) or mixed with other nuts and spices (adobong mani)

Banana cue is deep-fried saba/saging (banana) covered with caramelized brown sugar.
Camote cue is deep-fried camote (sweet potato) covered with caramelized brown sugar.

Manggang hilaw is green mango served with bagoong (shrimp paste).

Suman is a glutinous rice snack steamed or boiled in banana or coconut leaves.

Suman sa ibus (ibus means coconut leaves and those are formed into a tube that contains the suman). It is probably the most popular suman in the Philippines. (the yellow ones in my picture)

Suman sa ligia is cooked with lye water and wrapped in banana leaves.