If balut is the most infamous street food, then fish balls are arguably the most iconic. Many Filipinos grew up eating it so for us, fish balls are the quintessential street food. They’re basically balls of flour made with some type of flaked fish meat.
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Of all the street food dishes we tried today, fish balls were the ones I was most excited about. I left for the US at barely 14 so this was probably my first time to have them again in almost 30 years. Unlike banana q or turon, a stick of fish balls wasn’t something you could easily have at home, at least not the authentic kind. I remember my mom bringing home frozen supermarket fish balls once, but they just weren’t the same.
To be honest, the fish balls we had today were more like that supermarket variety. They were crunchier and bigger, unlike the soft, flat-ish fish balls I remember from my school days. I made that observation to Ren and she agreed. These seemed different from the ones we grew up with. Evolution of street food I guess?
Speaking of street food evolution, these weren’t around in our youth either. We were surprised to find that the fish ball vendors of today also sell chicken balls. They’re bigger and almost double the price of fish balls.
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Even though they’re not how I remember them to be, eating fish balls today brought back a flood of fond boyhood memories. Growing up, I remember how pushcart vendors would wait outside our school with pans of deep-frying fish balls. We’d gather around the pan and stab fish balls with thin barbecue sticks before dunking them in one of three sauces. I didn’t know what was in the sauces back then, but one sauce was brown and sweet, another was spicy (vinegar with chili), and the third was a combination of the two. I always went for the sweet. Good times. 🙂
Expect to Pay: Around PHP 2 for every 3 pcs of fish balls, PHP 2.50 for every 2 pcs of chicken balls
Kindly visit also my other articles about pinoy street food.
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I tried it great and it is really delicious, I want to eat something like this again. I can't wait to prepare something like this again, and to watch your posts you have a big sub from me