Cebu Street Snacks — Part 4: Fried & Skewered
The fried and skewered series: banana-fritter-style kamote-que, banana turon and pinaipai. All around 25 pesos and easy to find once you know what to look for.
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From street-side snacks to island flavours. A taste of Cebu.
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The Karenderia — Cebu's Local Kitchen
Karenderias are Cebu's version of a neighborhood diner — rows of big pots, you lift the lids to see what looks good, and order by the plateful. Cheap, delicious, and completely local.
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Cebu Street Snacks — Part 3: Sapin-sapin, Linugaw & Empanada
Three more personal favorites: sapin-sapin (layered coconut rice cake), linugaw (mashed saba banana), and the hard-to-find empanada — the one I buy immediately whenever I spot it.
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Beard Papa Has Finally Opened in Cebu!!
Cebu has massive malls — SM, Ayala, Robinsons — bigger than anything in Japan. One day, glancing up through the atrium of J Mall, I spotted the unmistakable logo: Beard Papa. What followed was four months of patient waiting.
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Cebu Street Snacks — Part 2: Glutinous Rice Series
Three more Cebu street snacks, all made from glutinous rice: puto maya, bud-bud, and biko. Buy them at dawn, eat them wrapped in banana leaf.
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Cebu Street Snacks — Part 1: Cassava & Bibingka
In Cebu, street food vendors appear at dawn selling traditional sweets made from glutinous rice, coconut, cassava, and banana leaves. Here are my personal favorites — Part 1.
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Argao Torta — Cebu's Best-Kept Pastry Secret
Torta from Argao is arguably the best baked good in Cebu — made the old-fashioned way, fired in a coconut-shell kiln. A pilgrimage worth making.
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