Flicking people off with adidas!

What I love about the bustling Filipino food scene in the Bay Area is that there seems to be no shortage of opportunities for one to reconnect (or connect for the first time) to the different nooks and crannies that make up Filipino cuisine.

Or in this case, the various street corners and alleyways of Manila’s street food!

The “Pinoy Street Food Festival” was held by Intramuros Restaurant in South San Francisco, CA, and when I found out about it via tweet from my fellow Filipino-food-consumer Joanne, I knew I had to check it out.

One of my biggest woes besides missing my family in the Philippines is missing the food I can’t get in America, and after finding kwek-kwek at the festival (battered and deep-fried quail eggs) I decided to stay the full 8 hours to consume everything. 2pm to 10pm!

The neat thing was practically half of all the offerings they had I never tried in Manila, like this pork isaw (pork intestine) that was marinated and grilled to perfection. It definitely made up for the lack of chicken isaw (chicken intestine) that I always made sure I got whenever I went back to the province.

With that said, I just had to stay for lunch, merienda (light snack), dinner, and dessert to consume halo-halo, fish balls, sago & gulaman, pork isaw, adidas, banana que, champorado, arroz caldo, dinuguan, balut, guinataang bilo-bilo, pancit luglug, chicharon bulaklak, kwek-kwek, ukoy, karioka, and cassava. Oh and red horse beer!

Did I mention banana cue lol? (deep fried banana coated with caramelized brown sugar, but here added with some extra crunch).