The dried seafood section of Iloilo City's Central market might as well be considered as another pasalubong shop as row of stalls selling a variety of dried seafood vie for customers attention. With the entrance located along Guanco Street, the distinct smell of these seafoods will greet you upon entering the premises and might never come off after that unless you change your clothes and take a bath afetrwards.
With a large variety of items ranging from the usual pinakas nga guma-a, balingon and tabagak (daing, dilis and tuyo) to danggit and dried squid of all sizes, one might find it hard to choose among these breakfast treats.
There are also some items I consider as novelty since they are not usually found and they even get a second on most tourists who drop by. These include fish tocino, fish tapa, fish bones and my latest "favorite" item; boneless dilis. Yup you read it right! An ordinary dried seafood made extra ordinary by making it sort of "impossible" until you've actually seen it.
Another item of curisotiy among tourists are these brown mounds locally known as guinamos. This what actually what is known by most as bagoong, but unlike it's more famous counterpart this one's much drier, finer and compact.
A favorite of mine whether as part of laswa or just plain fried is lison - a big fish of the same name halved, dried and salt-cured. For those who love the non-bony part of daing, then this one's for you.
And last but not the least, is the impossible made possible, boneless dilis.
Any activity in and around Guimaras whether just for a day tour or an overnight would surely include a visit to the Trappist Monastery - the only one of it's order in the Philippines. And when monks have time to spare they make goodies and souvenir items that tourists can bring home as pasalubong or memento of their visit not only in this "hallowed" grounds but also in Guimaras as well.
And this pasalubong shop has mangoes infused in almost all food items they have. From fruit preserves to popular baked goods like piaya, biscocho, chewies and barquillos. Plus they have a good variety of flavoured piayas ranging from yes, mango, to strawberry, calamansi and pineapple. Will there be a guava and grape ones in the future? Nobody knows but one thing for sure, I became an instant fan of their mango cookies and mangoe biscocho.
True to it's tagline, Peppy Thai Deli is really the one and only authentic Thai resto in Iloilo City. Despite more classy competition elsewhere, itremains to true to the taste and very simple that patrons keep coming back - just like me.
"WELCOME TO Iloilo. Forget your diet."
As it turned out, he wasn’t just joking. Wherever we went, the genteel Ilonggos lavished us with the chief beauty—and for the weight-watchers among us, the major bane—of their province: The food.
Miagao has an attractive way of wrapping the bite-sized bayi-bayi in shiny, bright green banana leaf. They look like miniature, fluffed-up green pillows. Using banana leaf as its wrapper started since the very first bayi-bayi in Miagao was made and that was surely a long time ago. 
Amidst the trend of lunch and dinner buffets here in the city, what deviates the Carlo’s lunch buffet from other restaurants is their dishes’ quality of being authentic. “We make sure that what we serve during our lunch buffets should have an authentic flavor so to give our customers a satisfying mood everytime they frequent our resturant,”said Carlo Sarabia Treñas, one of the shop’s managers.”
Carlo’s Bakery/Café lunch buffet serves Pinoy and international menus with Japanese, Thai, Indonesian, Korean and Chinese dishes.
Carlo’s Bakeshop/Café, known for its cake rolls, pasalubong treats, and breads, extends its pastry offerings through their healthy bread line. They now sell breads which are zero transfat, meaning, no cholesterol and no sugar added. 
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