Filipino Street Food Tempura.

Filipinos also loved to eat Japanese food like Tempura. Tempura is a known street food in the Philippines and Filipinos have their own tempura recipe and flavor. It is a fried Japanese food filled with shelled shrimp and dipped in batter or even with vegetables. You can find a strolling tempura vendors with his bike and cart in most of the street and public area of any provinces of the Philippines. Vendors can cook tempura while you wait in just their stance or bikes and you can also choose your tempura pieces in their basket since there are some tempura which is small and big, sizes are different exactly but when it's already been boiled, it will just sprout from it's raw small size.

Like fish balls, tempura could also be in a bamboo stick skewer and sometimes in a small paper plate. Filipinos really loved to dip down tempura on a spicy sauce. Also, tempura vendors has also different flavor of sauce for you to choose, whether you like hot and spicy or sweet and sour, then your will just pour your stick of tempura to their bottle of sauce labeled with hot and spicy and sweet and sour flavors.

Here are the Ingredients for the Pinoy Style Tempura.

10 pieces of large-sized shrimps
and cooking oil for deep frying.

For the batter you will need:

1 cup flour, 2 tablespoons baking powder or cornstarch, 1 egg yolk, 1/4 teaspoon salt and a 1 cup iced water.

For a tasty dipping sauce:

1 tsp dry mustard
1 tbsp minced ginger root
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 scallions, minced
1/4 cup soy sauce, (you can add if needed)
1/4 cup water
2 tbsp honey
2 garlic cloves, minced

1 tsp hot chili sauce, plus as needed

Note: The dipping sauce ingredients is not necessary. You can make your own version of dipping sauce for your tempura.
It is not advisable to eat Tempura from street vendors regularly.

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