Now on its fourth year is the SM Hypermarket Street Food Festival 2019.  It is said to be bigger and better than the previous ones. 

Although it is the first time for Tsinoy Foodies to partake in this event. 

The event kicks of at SM Mall of Asia with the 8-foot SM Giant Turon with Langka.  Inside, it is filled with 500 pieces of SM Markets Turon with Langka.

The SM Streetfood Festival 2019 Roadshow continuous to other SM Malls and back to SM Mall of Asia as follows:

So, allow us to give you our top five (5) reasons for you to check this event out!

There are programs which will allow you to meet and greet your favorite celebrities like Ruru Madrid and Derrick Monasterio.  You can also get a chance to catch the pioneers of the famous street food chains like Reymont Chuachuy of Sam's Everything on Sticks, Marlene and Beejay Burog of Khaleb's Shawarma, Larry Cortez of Super Bagnet, Joey Leonardo of Bulacan Lugaw Kitchen, Gloria Marin of Gloria's Goto, Rica Penalosa of Ate Rica's Bacilog, Lauro Convencido Jr.'s of Mang Larry's Isawan, Jonathan So and Carlo Macandangdang of Sgt. Sisig.  

You can also take some photos with street food props courtesy of Lakbay Museo just like what celebrity chef Boy Logro did.

Tendon Akimitsu has arrived in the Philippines for quite some time.  Finally, it opens its first solo shop in Glorietta 1 Top of the Glo.

I was really surprised to find that Glorietta 1 recently opened a roof deck area called Top of the Glo.  Although I have only explored its Japan Town, I hope to come back and check out more.

Tendon Akimitsu boasts of its awards as displayed by its counter.  Seeing these made me want to try it out with excitement.

Although specializing in tempura, I highly recommend wleting your appetite with the Aburi Salmon as a starter.  Just looking at this makes me fantasize of having this again.

 If you want to try a wonderful seafood tempura mix, order the Nami Tendon Set which is composed of Ebi Tempura (tiger prawns), scallops, whitebait fish, shrimps, okra and sweet potato.  

Although Tendon Akimitsu is one of the new Tendon restaurants in Asakusa being established only in 2015, I trully believe that it deserves to be awarded for its Tempura.  It is indeed one of the best I've had.  The meal is very filling and worth the price.  Though, I felt the need to ask for more tempura sauce which the servers happily adhered to.

When something opens in my side of town, I definitely need to check it out.  So one afternoon after my yoga class, I decided to drop by 24 Chicken Pedro Gil Branch.

What I didn't expect was that it had a dine-in area located at the 2nd floor.  Yes, there's a staircase behind this wall.

I especially like the nook area overseeing the busy Pedro Gil - Taft streets. 

To be honest, I not so enthusiastic to try another Korean Fried Chicken after witnessesing the Korean Fried Chicken craze fizzle out.  Seems Bochon and Kyochon are the few Korean Fried Chicken chains from Korea that are still visibly dominant in the market.  A few brands I've tried from Korea like Smoper Chicken and Holdak were short-lived.

Coincidentally, I met my couple blogger friends from Yogo and Cream who were so excited to try 24 Chicken again.   They said that 24 Chicken is their favorite so I got really epicurious.

How conveneint that 24 Chicken has various flavors that captures different taste profiles. Being a spicy and garlic lover, I was captivated by the Yangnyeom x2 and Yangnyeom Garlic.  The
Yangnyeom x2 is not overwhelmingly spicy but has some sweet tones to it.  The Yangnyeom Garlic is loaded with raw garlic.  Actually, you can order any flavor and just top the raw garlic for an addition of 20 php.