- Oh, my God.
I'm like ascending right now.
- Mm.
It looks like fake food.
- Do you think if we had penises, this is how we'd act?
(Hameda laughing) - Yeah, probably.
Just playing it around in the office.
Today, we are gonna be trying Filipino snacks.
- (tapping table) So excited.
- We're pumped, we're nervous.
- Let's do this.
- Let's go.
- (speaks in Tagalog) My name's Rizcel.
I am Filipino Australian, and I'm just gonna share
some Filipino snacks with my friends here at "Buzzfeed".
Some of it has been inspired from our Spanish colonization,
and a lot of it's from our indigenous culture.
You'll see that a lot of 'em have rice in it
in various forms.
Having sticky rice means like good luck.
Stickiness is to stick the good luck to you,
so a lot of this stuff, like what we call in Tagalog
(speaks in Tagalog) is sticky rice that we eat a lot
during festive seasons like New Year's,
so that the good luck sticks to us with all year round.
So hopefully, there's a lot of good luck
with everyone trying these snacks today.
So the first snack we're trying is called Chicharon.
It is a deep fried pork rind or pork skin.
The perfect snack to have with a beer, by itself,
you dip it in vinegar, or you crush it up
and you put on top of your noodles.
It goes with anything.
For our vegetarian slash vegan friends,
we've got the vegetarian version of Chicharon
which is made out of dehydrated peas.
Vegetarians, you're not gonna miss out on Chicharon.
Hope you enjoy it.
- Always wanted to eat this, but I never have been able to
because it's pork. (laughs)
- So you get the vegan version.
- I get the vegan...
- To be honest, I'm not pork's number one fan.
I think it's overrated.
- Holy shit.
- (laughs) That's not fair. That's not equal.
- That's gonna make some people feel real bad
about themselves.
- Okay, cheers.
- Cheers, my love.
(snack crunching)
Oh, the crunch.
- That's pretty good.
- This is delicious.
Try this.
(snack crunching)
- I'm trying to seduce you.
- Summer air, couple of bevies, put these on the table.
I would demolish it.
- Now veggie version, let's go.
(upbeat music)
- But this is fucking so good. (Zeta mumbles)
So I'm sure that's also good.
It's just the idea of eating like puffy skin.
- I love these.
- That's really nice.
It doesn't taste like the original one, but-
- I like both equally. - Bloody good.
Yeah. Holy shit.
- Vegans win this round. - Yum.
- So the next snack is called Choc-nut.
It's like a small little chocolatey peanut treat.
If you're not into chocolate, you might like it,
'cause it's more peanut than chocolatey.
Zeta, I'm looking at you.
- Peanut milk chocolate.
- This reminds me of like some grand chocolate bar,
like a "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory"
golden ticket situation. - Mm.
- Oh, it's crumbly.
It's kind of like a flake almost.
- If you're new here, I don't like chocolate.
But maybe I like Filipino chocolate.
- Oh that's so peanuty.
- Mm.
- I'm so sorry.
- The texture's fucking weird.
- I love it.
- Why is it like fudge?
- This taste like halwa,
which is like a Middle Eastern dessert.
- Mm...
- This is fucking amazing.
- I'm gonna eat the whole packet.
- It's a bit intense to me.
Like it's nice, it's just that I can't cut that texture.
That's really weird texture.
- Yeah, look at that.
It's like sand.
- It's so delicious though.
- Maybe I like Filipino chocolate 'cause it's-
- You're eating it. I'm very surprised-
- 'Cause it doesn't taste like it. (laughs)
- But you're still eating it.
'Cause usually you'd be like throwing up at this point.
- So the next snack, Boy Bawang,
which means boy garlic or garlic boy,
which is the quintessential flavor of Filipino cuisine.
It is a deep fried corn kennel
that has been doused in garlic flavor.
Like, if you love garlic, oh my gosh.
Your world will be changed.
- Garlic flavor!
- Puffy corn.
- (gasps) I love puffy things. (Hameda laughing)
- The minute you open that, all you can smell is garlic.
- Ooh.
- Oh, that's gonna make us smell awesome.
(snack crunching)
- Oh, my God.
- Yum! - Oh, my God.
This is like the kind of thing
you could like just eat like a mouthful of.
- (laughs) I like them.
Once again, would go really well with like a beer.
- This shit is right up my alley.
- Stop eating it.
There's so many snacks.
- Why do you keep doing that?
- Thumbs up.
- Why? Okay then, thumbs up.
Shout out to Filopride Marrickville
for hooking us up with these snacks.
- Fucking amazing.
Yum. Yum.
- We'll be coming to visit, and so should you.
- So Chippy is a Filipino brand of chips in the Philippines.
This is a corn chip.
It is a favorite of a lot of Filipinos.
- Chippy! - Chippy!
- A barbecue flavored corn chip?
- And they're called Chippy.
- Chippy! They're like chippy!
- It's like a freaking spiral.
That's cool as shit, right?
- Oh, yeah. Alright.
Let's taste it.
- Cheers.
(snack crunching)
I feel like they'd go really well with like an avocado dip.
- I don't like it.
- I like the texture.
I can't taste anything.
No, flavoring needs to be about like 40 times the amount.
- That's actually really nice.
- What?
- I just feel like it needs like a dip.
- It tastes like they forgot to add the flavoring.
- Stop crinkling.
(playful music)
- This is why we're not paired in videos. (laughs)
- Like when you show me that, I'm expecting like pow.
- Pow!
- It doesn't look like the picture,
(Hameda laughing)
and I don't know why.
- Neither do I in my dating profile.
- Back home. Cat fishing.
Not bad, I would still eat them.
(Hameda laughing)
- Turon.
Oh my God, I love turon.
It is like my number one favorite pin wise snack.
Turon is basically a banana spring roll.
But in the Philippines it's like Saba, banana,
with jack fruit in it, wrapped in spring roll,
deep fried and then caramelized with brown sugar.
Mm. So crunchy, so good.
So indulgent, really good with ice cream.
- Basically, if this doesn't taste like pure happiness,
I will be so confused.
Oh, shit.
- Wow.
- Oh my God. (snack crunching)
It's very sweet.
- It kind of tastes like potato.
- It does.
- I like the sweet kind of crunchy exterior.
Like it's been caramelized almost.
- Yeah.
- Kind of like sugar on it, yeah.
- I need another bite for science reasons, obviously.
- For science.
- It's kind of savory.
- Which is really good.
- Yeah.
- Yum.
- We love that.
The banana has a little bit of a flavor,
but it's more like a texture.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's really yummy.
Too sweet for me.
- I quite like that.
- I think these are really cool though,
because it's something that I haven't tried before.
Like I would never think to put jack fruit in a spring roll.
I like these. They're solid.
They're solid.
- They are good. - Yeah.
Not my favorite, but solid.
- Yeah.
- So Bibingka is a rice flour cake.
So it's like the cake on top of a banana leaf,
put in a terracotta pot and cooked over coals.
That's how it's traditionally made,
and then once it's cooked, you top it with cheese,
desiccated coconut and a salted egg.
It's a very special treat that we have during Christmas,
but you can eat it all year round.
- Shout out to Tita's Cakes
for giving us all this stuff...
- Legends.
(Isha gasping) - Yeehaw!
- Wait, is that egg?
- I thought that was coconut and mango.
- Can you not see the egg?
Guys, the egg is very obvious.
- Yeah, I know, but I think it was like-
- [Riczeh] It's salted egg.
- Salted egg.
- Oh, no.
- Look how cute the flag is.
- Look at that color.
- Looking at how like spongy that is.
- Yes. Yes. - That is insane.
- That's super soft.
- I am a little bit skeptical about the egg though.
- Me too.
I'm not a huge fan of coconut like this.
- Wow.
- This is really good.
- Holy fuck.
- A lot of flavors.
- There's a lot going on here. - Mm-hmm.
- God, the Philippines know what's up.
- Right?
Did you bite the egg?
- Yeah.
- Did you actually?
'Cause you can't taste it.
Like, it's not gross. - I ate it.
- It's not really eggy.
- I ate half of it.
- The cake itself is incredible.
That is so good.
- Dense, but spongy.
- Like a bundt, maybe.
- Yeah, like a bundt.
- A bundt.
- I like the cake and the coconut, I'll pass on the egg.
- That's really good.
- Especially the egg.
That was my favorite bit. (plate dragging)
- Yup. We'll see.
- Yum.
- [Rizcel] So Summan or (speaks Tagalog),
is a glutenous rice cake
that's been wrapped in banana leaves, and then steamed.
And it comes out kind of like in stick form
so you can like peel it like a banana.
You can have with like caramel sauce, highly recommend.
- Came through dripping. (Isha laughing)
That is the best thing I've ever seen on sauce in my life.
- Once again, presentation, beautiful.
- Yum.
- Ah! This is so fun.
It reminds me of like the crackers
you get at Christmas.
- Oh my God, this is like a cheese trigger.
But like...
- Rice?
- No.
- This is very hypnotic.
(both laughing)
Jiggle jiggle. - It's familiar.
- I like it. It's familiar. (laughs)
- It's familiar.
- How's the sauce?
- Caramelly.
- Sweet?
(Zeta blows raspberry)
(both laughing)
Do you think if we had penises this is how we'd act?
(both laughing)
- Yeah, probably.
Just playing around in the office.
(Clauds laughs)
- This is so good.
- Mm.
Okay, I see why you would dip it,
because that tastes like just rice.
- Well, that's a big bite.
- Yeah, I was excited.
- 'Cause it's solid.
- Mm.
- Caramel sauce and rice, who would've thunk it?
- This is yummy!
- Yummy!
- Puto Bumbong, I know it sounds really fun to say.
Puto Bumbong is a purple rice steamed in bamboo shoots.
And it's served on banana leaves,
and you put like brown sugar with coconut
and lots of butter,
and you just like slather all of that on top of it.
It is so delicious altogether.
- This is a pile of brown sugar.
- I love that. - And butter.
- It's glistening.
- Oh, it's stretchy, aye, aye.
- Yeah.
- Oh, it keeps going.
It keeps going.
I'm gonna use my hands.
I'm an Indian.
I'm very comfortable with my hands here.
- I'm experiencing like an entirely new flavor
in my mouth right now. - I know.
- I really like this.
- And then at the end, there's a coconut as well.
- And you're left like chewing the glutenous rice
with the coconut. - Mm-hmm.
- It tastes so good.
- Did you get the sugar? - Mm-hmm.
- You didn't get the butter.
- I got the butter.
- Did you get the coconut?
- I got the coconut.
- I've actually got everything.
- (whistles) Got hit with the sugar real good.
- I really like the chewiness of the rice.
- The chewiness is freaking me out.
I'm scared I'm gonna choke.
- I like it.
It reminds me of like purple tea
when you have the pearls, like the chewiness.
- Never had purple tea.
Yeah. That's a TikTok, I know.
Don't. - What?
- Don't, don't, don't. (laughs)
- Can I get a new partner?
Is it too late? (Clauds laughing)
- Wow. - Yum!
- It's so good.
- Also if I saw this on a menu,
I honestly probably wouldn't order it.
- Mm-mm. Because I'd be afraid.
- Yes. (both laughing)
- I just feel like there's a lot of love
that goes into this.
And so I really appreciate it for those reasons.
It's just heavy.
- So Sapin Sapin is another glutenous rice cake.
Sapin Sapin means sheets or layers,
and you'll see that it's different colors.
So you've got the bottom layer which is white vanilla,
the yellow for jackfruit, and the top layer which is ube.
Then you top that off with latik,
which is basically a reduced coconut milk
that's turned into these chewy flakes.
All that together, you've got different textures
and different flavors.
It is a treat.
- Look at this.
- That's gorgeous. (Isha gasping)
- I'm so into it.
I love coconut.
- Ooh. I feel like I've made this myself.
- I could just smell this all day.
- Okay, well we're not here to smell it,
we're here to eat, so let's eat it.
(adventurous music)
- Mm...
Oh, my God, this is fucking amazing.
- Flavor-wise like, I guess it's pretty good.
- Mm-hmm, it's also once again, very filling.
- Yeah.
- Like I'd probably have one half of the-
- Maybe half of it-
- Full in a day.
- It doesn't really have that much flavor.
- Which I like.
Like, I don't want it to be too intense.
- No, you can taste the jack fruit.
- Mm. It's very yum.
And it's very pretty. Like Zeta.
- Exactly.
And that's the first nice thing you've ever said to me.
- That's bullshit.
(Zeta laughing)
- [Rizcel] So Ginataang Bilo Bilo
means sticky rice bowls and coconut milk.
It's got a number of ingredients like jackfruit,
Saba which is banana, the glutenous rice bowls themselves,
tapioca pearls, sweet potato or ube,
in a smooth silky coconut milk.
It is great cold, it is great hot,
but for me it is the ultimate comfort food.
- Pure, warm, creamy comfort.
- Oh. - Whoa.
I've never seen anything like this.
- Wow. - Oh my God.
- This looks like fake food.
This looks like-
- It does! It looks like fake food!
- Ooh. (spoons clicking)
- It just tastes like sweet coconut milk.
- Mm.
- I think we just learned you're not a fan of rice
with this texture.
- I love the texture of the rice bowl.
- It's like mochi.
- It's fucking delicious.
- The coconut milk is super creamy, super light,
not overly sweet.
It goes so well with the fruit.
- Yeah, the coconut milk is good.
- It makes me feel like I'm on holiday.
- Yeah.
- Too root vegetablely for me.
The rice bowl was fucking delightful though.
Like so softened.
- Oh, it's crunchy.
But not in like a sweet potato way.
Maybe like a grape, very little flavor though.
This, out of all the desserts so far, my least favorite.
- Same.
- This also reminds me of an Indian dessert we have,
called kie, which is rice pudding,
kind of similar flavor profiles,
but the coconut in this just really shines.
- So, Sans Rival which means unrivaled,
is inspired by French cooking.
It's basically layers of meringue with butter,
and some sort of nut, usually cashew nuts or pistachio nuts.
- Is this just balls of butter?
(Hameda laughing) - [Rizcel] Close.
It's actually supposed to be a cake,
but they've made into bites.
- One bite?
How big do you think my mouth is?
- The nuts on that.
- That looks awesome.
- (gasps) This looks right up your alley.
- Yeah. It's a vibe.
- Oh, the pistachio.
- I can taste the cashew.
- This is cool.
Not as sweet as I was expecting.
It's a good mix of like savory sweet.
- I'm glad it's not as sweet,
'cause that would've kind of taken away from that meringue.
- It feels illegal to eat because it tastes like-
- Oh, I know.
Because it tastes like pure butter.
Police come and get me because I've done something naughty.
- Buttercream. So good.
So smooth.
This has been the freezer.
How are you so smooth?
(both laughing)
- Oh, my God.
I'm like ascending right now. Wow.
- That's really something that is.
- Something.
- Is it unrivaled?
- I mean, look, it feels unrivaled.
(Isha chuckles)
Sans Rival, you win.
We ate all the snacks!
- Loved it. - Delicious.
- Loved it, loved it, loved it, loved it.
- What a birthday treat for you?
- What a birthday treat?
Merry Christmas, Zeta.
- Merry Christmas.
Happy birthday to you. - Thank you.
- 'Cause you're Jesus. (Hameda laughs)
(upbeat music continues)