Sison’s Painitan

One of the row of open-air painitan stalls on Katada Street inside Dumaguete’s public market, on the southern end of the row closest to the market’s main food section. Painitan stalls sell native breakfast food eaten standing or seated on shared benches: puto (steamed rice cake) with tsokolate or sikwate (hot chocolate made from pure tablea), budbud (sticky rice steamed in banana leaf, most of it trucked in daily from Tanjay), plus coffee, bibingka, binangkal, banana cue, and lugaw (rice soup) at some stalls. Stalls in this row open well before dawn, generally between 3:30 and 4:30am, to catch early churchgoers, market vendors, and joggers, and many stay open into the early afternoon. Seating is outdoor bench-style only, shared with neighbouring stalls — there’s no indoor section and no air conditioning. Cash is still the default here, though some painitan vendors on this street began accepting GCash, Maya, and PalawanPay QR payments after the city’s 2024 Paleng-QR rollout, so it’s worth asking rather than assuming card-only won’t work. Wheelchair access is not available (uneven market flooring, no ramp).