What is your favorite ethnic food on a stick?

Octopus tentacles deep fried from street vendors in Japan. (I would say the mystery meat I had in the Philippines, but I do NOT know what that WAS, but it was JUST as good.) They cut them into about a cubic inch in size and put several several on a bamboo skewer, dip the works in seasoned batter and deep fry them right in front of you. The aroma is heavenly and the taste sublime. The thing is, in Japan, it is bad form to walk away and eat while walking. Everyone consumes the entire thing right there and just eases out of the way to make a little room for new customers to get theirs and leave the skewers in a bowl set aside for collecting them. The thing about using bamboo was they could be boiled in water and recycled, just like you wash your silverware. I'm not sure of the exchange rate today, but the times (spanning several years) I was there it ran about 100 yen per skewer, which at the time was about a 75 cents US. Every time I left the Naval base in Yokosuka, I would buy several of these during the evening. My next favorite is not ethnic as such, but simple corn dogs dipped in a little yellow mustard at the state fair, with the absolute best being made from Nathan's hot dogs imported from New York. Yummy!

When I was achef and like the fellow who was station in the military in Japan, I worked for a hotel chain and was there in Tokyo for 9 months, we would go out after work, drink sake and eat "Yakitori", it is like a chicken skewer done with a sweet sauce, but there was some much more, quail eggs, chicken hearts and gizzards, beef, potatos, even the tendons of the chix wing, gingko nuts, yams, tofu and eggplants.

In Singapore when I working there, it was the Mongolian style lamb kebabs from the hawker stalls at the night market in the downtown area. In Japan they eat corn on the cob with a stick in it and use not butter, but soya sauce, chili peppers, tabasco and miso paste for flavouring, if you ever go there you might think it is an ice cream as they eat it in the long form ot side to side.

Singaporean Satay.

Teriyaki chicken bits on a kabob like stick. So tender it can

almost melt on your tongue. Ahhh! This we get from our fav-

orite Chinese buffet restaurant. This is similar to Bento,

but Bento comes with rice. And I've never had it as 'melt in

your mouth, tender, as I have at the restaurant we enjoy as

just regular Teriyaki Chicken.

Lollipops (preferably Tootsie Roll Pops)! Classic American cuisine.

Malaysian Chicken Satay with peanut sauce if that's what you're talking about.

my favourite one is called 'sate buntel' or it can be said as wrapped satay. well,it's indonesian satay,came from 1 place named SOLO. it's a one big satay,using lamb minced meat.

i also love ordinary chicken satay.with peanut sauce of course. :)

Tofu

Skewered beef kebabs[indian] lamb tikka kebabs

Chicken or beef soulvaki-Greek