Cluster of native dessert makers in Dumaguete. In Dumaguete, the provincial capital of Negros Oriental and the island’s eastern market city. 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.