Destination no. 5
Taboan Market
Fish and other products are preserved through such traditional methods as
drying. The oldest traditional way of preserving fish and other goods
was to let the wind and sundry it. Drying food is the world's oldest known preservation method. The
method is inexpensive and effective in suitable climates.
Filipinos
are known as food lover. Typical breakfast of Filipinos are eggs, sunny side up
or scrambled; pandesal or fried rice and all time favourite staples food like tocino, longganisa, tapa, tuyo and other dried
salted fish.
Taboan Market is a place in Cebu where you can buy sweet delicacies and known in our country as public dried fish haven as pasalubong.
Bunch of Dried Mango strip and puree, Rosquillas, Otap and other sweet delicacies
The famous Cebu Danggit (salted/unsalted)
Is a small thin salted dried fish referred as a poor man's food by most people. It is also known as rabbitfish or spinefoot fish in English.
Price: Salted P500 and Unsalted P550*
Dried Pusit
Price: Small P600 and Medium P700*
Dried Fish Tocino
Price: P480*
*prices were from Niño and Khristy dried fish
The smell of the place is appalling because of
the hills and crates of dried fish and dried seafood. Merchants wrapped danggit
in a tightly sealed plastic to prevent the smell to stink. Expect that you will also smell like dried fish, so make sure you bring spare clothes. But this experience
will not prevent the Filipino abd other tourist to buy this delectable products
of Cebu.
Read more about this trip! CEBU
- Grand Tierra Suites
- Joven's Grill and Seafoods
- Basilica Minore del Santo Niño
- Magellan's Cross
- Fort San Pedro
- Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral
- Larsian sa Fuente
- Cnt Lechon
- The Tops
- Asia Town I.T. Park
- Taoist and Phu Sian Temple
- Body and Sole
- Spaghetti Factory
