Backyard cacao trees and informal tablea production around Valencia. In Valencia, the upland town above Dumaguete, cooler and wetter, feeding the city’s markets. Cacao here is backyard-scale rather than plantation — trees in house lots, beans dried on mats, then roasted, ground and pressed into tablea discs. Tablea is pure cacao with nothing added; it’s what sikwate and champorado are made from. Buy at the town market and ask for the local one rather than a commercial brand.