Tempura is known in Japan as a dish of fish, shellfish, or vegetable, fried in batter but here in the Philippines it is well known as a filipino snack.
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.
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