Merienda items at the Public Market

There is a narrow lane in the Public Market where you can buy your ingredients in cooking native delicacies. Coconut meat is one of the primary ingredients, and is in abundance here. Add to that sweet potatoes, saba (a form of banana used for cooking), malagkit (glutinous rice), galapong (well-milled glutinous rice), sago (whoops I forgot the english equivalent of this one), and you can cook up wonderful guinataan! You can also purchase your barbecue sticks and charcoal here.

There's also matamis na bao, brown sugar, white sugar, peanut butter (my favorite sandwich filling!)

This lane is located at the other end of the "tourist lane" which starts at the MarBay (or Maharlika Livelihood Center) and ends at the fruit stands and rice vendors. Just go a bit further off and you will see a wet market to your left. Approach the row of fish vendors and you will see the lane to your left. You've hit the jackpot!

At the end of this lane are these stalls which sold tobacco leaves since I can long remember. The smell of the tobacco is quite strong here. But not anymore. There are only a few tobacco leaves around, and they have resorted to selling other items as well.


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