Cebu Tihik Tip # 3 - Eat Lumpia for 1 pesos each

Here in Cebu, you'll find pungko² stalls in several corners on the streets. For those who don't know:

Pungko-pungko (from Doon Po Sa Amin) takes its name from the Cebuano term pungko, which is to squat. The name actually refers to cheap dining eateries usually located in the sidewalks where people have to sit on low benches or just crouch down to eat when there isn’t a place to sit. It’s a communal form of eating where diners have to sit close with each other as they huddle around a small table where the food is served. Pungko-pungko is characterized for its cheap, mostly fried food such as ngohiong (fried spring rolls), bola-bola (meat balls) and assorted parts of pork such as ginabot (pork intestines), utok (pork brain), tambok (pork fat) and dila (pork tongue).

Now some may find eating in pungko² unhygienic since they are usually located at the sides of the road, but these pungko² that I frequent when I was a student is located at Kalubihan in University of Cebu Main, I like it here because it's not beside the road. The lumpia toque (taogi) only costs 1 peso each, as of writing, it still costs 1 peso each. And nope, it doesn't hide any monkey business beneath those spring rolls, just taogi.

See those little lumpia as big as your pinky finger? Yep, that costs 1 peso only. During my thesis days where money is scarce, my classmates and I used to eat KFC (Kalubihan Food court) Value Meal which consists of 4 lumpia and 3 puso for a whopping price of 10 pesos only! Sounds class, eh?:)