When we Pinoys have our meals, dessert is often inexistent. I mean, a chunk of melts-in-your-mouth pork humba with its sweet, salty and tangy sauce slathered over a cup of rice is already a complete meal for a typical Filipino. It’s great if there’s a glass of juice or softdrinks, or maybe a banana or a slice of mango because that would be the “sweet” part of the meal.

But desserts, the actual sweet stuff eaten after a rich main dish, are commonly reserved during special occasions as fiestas, birthday celebration or Noche Buena dinner on Christmas Eve.

Nevertheless, Pinoys are fond of sweets. Like many other nationalities, the Filipino people will never say no to a dessert. And so we eat sweet dishes and delicacies throughout the day as snacks in between meals. We even go for sweet rice cakes and the bittersweet sikulate at dawn – which technically could pass for dessert taken during the earliest part of the day.

Now, if you’re asking where do Pinoys get their servings of the sweet stuff when virtually none is served on their dining table at home? The answer is: at the streets. Here are ten of the best-tasting, dessert-quality treats you can buy off the streets of the Philippines, which goes to show that Filipinos eat dessert whenever, wherever. And no, it dessert doesn’t always have to be the last part of the meal served on a dainty dessert plate.

10. Chocolates & Local Candies

Whether it’s a bar of commercial chocolate or chocolate candy, there’s a lot of it you can buy from small sari-sari stores scattered along the highways or from street peddlers that intermingle with motorists during a red light. A favorite among Pinoys would be the more affordable ones like Cloud 9, Goya and Big Bang. For P5, you already have a chocolate dessert on the go. If you’re not into chocolates, you can also go for local candies like yema, peanut brittle, cotton candy, pastillas, masareal, and tartlets, among others.

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