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Baguio, 4 - Binatog

While ambling around Burnham Park to take pictures, I can’t help but notice some streetfood vendors selling something that I have’t seen in other places before. At first, I thought that these were some local elbow macaroni food concoction, as it was rounded, and white with some bits of meat placed on a big steamer and covered with plastic.

Binatog , as what it is called, is made from white corn kernels that is cooked or steamed until it becomes plump and puffed up, and mixed with grated coconut, sugar and milk. Costing only ten pesos per cup, one can usually find it around streets, especially within Session Road and parks within the city sold on top of carts side by side with other streetfood fare like squid and fish balls, tempura, peanuts, balut etc.

I tried one and its delicious.