Herb gardens and medicinal plants in upland barangays. In Valencia, the upland town above Dumaguete, cooler and wetter, feeding the city’s markets. Kakanin are made at barangay level and sold in the market and by roadside vendors — puto, biko, bibingka, budbud, suman. Here they’re morning food rather than dessert, eaten with sikwate or native coffee. Go early; the good ones sell out before the market quietens.