Affordable Pinoy Street Food at the SM Hypermarket Pinoy Street Food Fair
If you are one of the many who find Pinoy Street Food elusive nowadays you’re not alone. In our village, the taho vendor only passes once a day at 11am, the turon vendor occasionally right after lunch, and the balut vendor once in a blue moon. We don’t even have a fishball vendor roaming our neighborhood anymore.
Watch: Best of Pinoy Street Food 2015 at SM Hypermarket
Pinoy Street Food is not just part of our stomach but also our Filipino culture – this food fare, the cooks, and the vendors behind them need more recognition and accord than they receive. Can you imagine Philippines without street food (fish ball, qwek-qwek, turon, puto, pilipit, etc.)
My family was present when SM Hypermarket celebrated the Best of Pinoy Street Food. The activity was posted on their FB page which was open to the public:
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Aside from a food fair featuring Pinoy Food, shoppers were also treated to a live cook-off with the most talented street food cooks in the Philippines.
100 shoppers (including my family) joined celebrity Chef Boy Logro in deciding which cooks made the most delicious pinoy spaghetti. I do remember buying P15 spaghetti in clear plastic bags for merienda when I was growing up in Makati.
Contenders serving their different versions of Pinoy Spaghetti to 100 shoppers turned judges
Whoever wins the grand finals will receive a life changing prize, his/her very own food stall at SM Hypermarket rent-free for a year, as well as P100,000 pesos worth of prizes including large food packs, ingredients, cooking equipment, etc. courtesy of SM Hypermarket’s Food Service Center!
Ashton and I were so delighted to be there especially when we got to enjoy 5 different plates of pinoy spaghetti with different twists. This was on top of sponsor booths who also offered free tastes of their products.
We had a hard time deciding who to vote for, shoppers were only given 1 chip to drop in the box of their chosen color-coded plate. In the end, we were happy to know that our top choice won the grand prize.
Angelica Libed of Aling Mila’s Food Delivery and Catering representing SM Hypermarket Valenzuela.
Do you want to enjoy SM Hypermarket activities like this? Note this was a public event that was open to all curious and food-loving shoppers! Follow SM Markets on Facebook to be updated on the next set of activities that you and your family can enjoy.
