We often refer a "small unpretentious out-of-the-way place especially a food place" as a hole-in-the-wall.
But here in Iloilo City, there is actually one bakery that is literally REALLY a "hole in the wall" and its business mainly revolves around that hole. Known for decades as "Buho" bakery as it means "hole", this bakery has been an open secret for many of the city's residents and seem to keep their fascination about the place with them even as they now someplace else.
Buho like any other bakery-snack food establishment where one can buy breads for take out or just merely sit down and have some drinks to go with them. But it’s really the hole that makes business for them since it serves as their connection to the outside world as early as 530 in the morning until closing time as insides bakery itself is closed to the public.
Aside from pan de sal, their pancho (grated coconut filled bread) and teren-teren also are best sellers and made this hole in the wall bakery famous through out the city.
Thanks to Raymund Deza, Oboi os SSC and greenflower for the photos