Taboan Market

by - May 22, 2012



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

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