5. Kwek-kwek and Fishball
Kwek-kwek is a street food made of hard-boiled quail eggs covered with orange batter and then deep fried. It is more delicious if you dipped it into a flavorful vinegar or ketchup.
Fishball is primarily made from fish meat ground to a paste, then deep-fried until golden and then skewered in wooden sticks and dipped in a variety of sauces ranging from sweet, spicy to sweet and sour. But here in Gensan our fishball are more in flour than the pulverized fish meat. It’s just funny that they called it fishball but it made up mostly of flour and some spices.
4 Isaw
Gensan’s isaw is made of chicken intestines that is deep fried to a golden brown finish. It is then dipped into a very flavorful vinegar, which is often native or home-made. Isaw vendors also sell shanghai lumpia, and buko juice on the side.
3. Dynamite Lumpia
Add a twist to your cheese sticks or lumpiang shanghai by stuffing the cheese or lumpia filling in chili fingers. These dynamite sticks are bursting with blissful flavor, not to forget the crunchy wrapper. These dynamites are made of chili fingers, ground pork and strips of cheese wrapped in spring roll wrapper then deep fried.
2. Balut
Balut or balot it is a boiled egg that contains semi-developed duck embryo and yolk. For you to eat it, you need to crack the egg shell first and put some salt and vinegar, after that drink the liquid or the juice of it. you can open it widely by cracking the shell and you decide if you want to eat the yolk first or the small creature in there.
1. Pastil
Pastil is a Muslim delicacy which is basically a steamed rice topped with meat flakes such as fish, chicken or beef and it is wrapped with banana leaf. You can put a cucumber, “bagoong”, fish oils and other freebies offered by the vendors. Mostly in Gensan has a pastil stalls but you can easily find these pastil stalls in Pioneer Avenue during night time.
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