Deep Fried Chicken’s Neck

This is a poor man’s KFC. That’s the closest description that I can think of for this street snack. The neck part of the chicken is typically the most disliked part because it has less meat and bony vertebrae compared to other part of a chicken. One particular food cart on the corner of España Blvd and Blumentrit made the disliked part of the chicken into a hit. 

The cooking method is simple. They coated the chicken neck into a mixture of flour and dry seasoning then deep fried.  The food cart who sells this product started as simple snack cart with just the fried chicken neck until they added deep fried chicken skin as an alternative to pork “chicharon”  (pork skin crackling) ,and rice into their menu. Lately, the owner of the food cart had acquired monoblock chairs for customers. Well, even with new amenities installed, most customers that buy from this food cart still prefer to eat while standing.  

This food cart provided the steady flow of hungry commuters and workers around the vicinity a cheap fix for their fried chicken cravings. The price of P15.00 would get you five inches of breaded chicken neck with bigger mass of skin and meat. Reducing the length of chicken neck one inch with less skin and meat is P13.00. Reducing it another inch with lesser skin and meat is P12.00. Add P5.00 of rice, then your fried chicken neck becomes your full meal. Each fried chicken neck comes with a small bag of sweet and sour sauce to enhance the flavor or to neutralize the fatty taste. The deep fried chicken skin cost P5.00 for almost or ten pieces. What I like about the food cart that sells this crackling, is that, they really fry the chicken skin perfectly.