Bayawan Public Market

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Bayawan Public Market
Bayawan Public Market

Description

Large southern Negros Oriental market connecting farms, fishing areas, and daily food trade. In Bayawan, a southern Negros Oriental city with a large market drawing farms and fisheries together. Public markets here run hardest before 8am, when the night’s catch is in and upland produce has just come down; by late morning it’s mostly dry goods and leftovers. Prices are negotiable in the wet and dry sections. Worth a stop for muscovado, tablea and native sweets at market rather than shop prices — bring small notes and your own bag.

Tips
Roadside rice drying slabs are the most visible sign of the farming calendar anywhere on the island — worth slowing for even if you don"t stop. The market is one of the larger southern ones; before 8am for the best of it.
Stops
Western Coastal Food Chain
How to get there
Southern highway, roughly 2.5-3 hours west of Dumaguete by Ceres bus.
Best Times
Harvest season for the roadside rice drying; market before 8am.

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