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Kwek, kwek, kwek! If that sounds like a duck, you're right. But it's also the name of that newest street delicacy "kwek-kwek" that's taking this part of the country by storm.

Take an egg -- a duck egg, a chicken egg, it doesn't matter. Dip it in a mixture of flour, salt and pepper, deep-fry it and serve it with fresh, diced cucumber and seaweeds. Presto! You have "kwek-kwek", a street quick-food delicacy that's giving fastfood giants McDonald's and Jollibee's a run for their money.

"I like it, I enjoy it. I buy two to three eggs and that's my complete supper for tonite," says Mildred Suarez, 22, a working student from a local university here at corner Bonifacio-Bolton streets which has the most number of "kwek-kwek" stall vendors in this southern city.

Now it doesn't matter if its "balut" or "penoy" (duck) eggs or just plain chicken eggs -- for most vendors here, it costs the same -- seven pesos each.

"I like it when it's hot and crispy," says mechanic Miguel Amarillo, 27, as he stabs one egg with a small pointed bamboo stick, dip the egg in spicy vinegar and gobble it up little by little along with small pieces of diced cucumber and green seaweeds.

But Mina Feliciano, 24, a bank employee, who also frequents the same street corner to feast on this quick-food craze, doesn't mind adding a peso or two for a "balut" or "penoy" or "kwek-kwek" instead of plain chicken egg.

"It has a more exotic taste if you take the real duck's egg and dip it in vinegar," she says, fingering pieces of seaweeds and diced cucumber to her mouth, washing off some of her wet magenta lipstick with a quick gulp of an ice-cold Coke.

"Kwek-kwek" street vendors can now be found in almost all major Philippine cities--in Manila, Quezon City, Makati, Cebu, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga, General Santos, etc. -- they're almost everywhere now.

Most of these enterprising vendors are concentrated near schools and universities, especially with a big student population whose appetite for very cheap food doesn't match the size of their wallets.

     

 Faced by sky-high prices of fast-food giants, students and workers are now flocking to the cheapest quick-food they can find on the streets-fresh fruits sold at five pesos a bag, fried squids cooked Japanese style at 10 pesos each, fried sugared bananas or fried sweet potatoes at only 4 pesos each, and of course, their biggest favorite - "kwek-kwek".

Micro-entrepreneurs -- that fancy name given to small street vendors, are raking it in this newest streetside enterprise, part of the Philippines's underground economy whose emerging growth is hard to nail down in figures and statistics.

Norma Samson-Lee, 46, a retired employee, sells an average of 50 to 70 chicken and duck eggs a day, just enough to keep their little business going and sending two of her children to school. They're happy and would call it a day if they make about a thousand pesos a day from sales of "kwek-kwek", buko juice, soft drinks.

There are about seven or nine of them in this little corner, some with mobile stalls, all competing for the hungry stomachs of home-bound students, office employees and workers who don't have enough money to buy a complete dinner to pass the night.

In Davao City alone, 100 to 200 of these small, mobile "kwek-kwek" vendors can be operating in a single day, concentrated mostly in heavily-populated schools and universities here.chicken "kwek-kwek".

"As long as nobody messes up 'kwek-kwek' with a brand name or packaging, 'kwek-kwek' will remain cheap at seven pesos each," says Marcelo Lastimoso, 29, a post-graduate student of a local university majoring in marketing management.

How and when "kwek-kwek" will lose its appeal, nobody knows yet at this point. Right now, all that matters is that the sky-rocketing prices of fast-food chains are driving people to the streets where they can still find a cheap refuge for their hungry stomachs in something that we hardly care about today -- eggs.

Source: Philippine News Agency

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hahahah curious jud ko unsay lami ana..

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I love to try one,aha,mao ra diay nay secret sa pagluto?Let me try.

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pwidi sad diri sa TB magtinda ta ug kwik kwik inday Ligiah kaso lang basin dakpun ta kay wa pa tay licensya.

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insakto jud ka ana ms Will super kwik na cja lutoon mao nga kwik kwik ang tawag.

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ah mao ba diay?  unsa kaha bitaw lami ana no?  naintriga ko da, pangitaon na naho puhon ug makapauli mi dinha, hehheheh

mas lami pa na sija sa fishball?

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haguy daghan jud na sa sidewalk sa Bangkok... lain lain flavor sa deep fried eggs...i have tried one with a really dark sauce nga di ko kasabot sa lami...naa gani sad tinuhog na mga itlog ja gi dangdang sa kayu

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mas ganahan pa jud ko sa kwik kwik kay sa fishball.mura na man lang gud ug puros harina nang fishball... wa nay fish! hehehe!


sakto ra gud pud nang lima (itlog pugo size) sa usa ka adlaw... heheheh!


basta... itlog gud siya nga gilung ag daan unya gipanitan unya gituhog unya gidip ug something unya gi fry na sad. lami na siya ituslob labi na ug hang... aguhhh!!!!  sus daghana  na jud ko'g gimingawan sa atoa da...

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ambot lagi ate.... pero naa'y gamay nga chance nga makauli ko... gamay lang nuon... ampo-i lang ko... hehehehe! lami unta ug makauli ko kay aron makatilaw na sad ko ug kwik kwik! hehehe!

te, di ba Germany ka? asa man na dapit nang Dresden?

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na... mao ba...



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ha? aw ambot lang kaha... lami man gihapon tingali! hehehehe!

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Wala diay ka kita itlog sa pugo, Ams?

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Amy, mao ni quail eggs.



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Mura man gud ug naay klase sa itlog sa tuko nga pareho ana kadak-a. Bisan na ug puti kay panitan baja na inig human ug lung-ag. Bitaw oi, di nata mag storya kay gi gutom raba ko. Mangita sa ko ug pan.

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I would rather eat itlog sa PUGO than that "kwekik"!!





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mao lagi! mura man ug against ni sa fecha dos crusaders. pero ganahan gihapon ko mi tilaw ug usa kabouk.

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pareho sa once you pop u can't stop?

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