Dried fish

DRIED FISH. Did you know that high society matrons from Manila coming to Cebu to accompany their husbands attending conferences do not go to the shopping malls but to the dried fish market? Unbelievable, you say? But it's true, our Ear informer says.

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"DANGGIT." Tourist buses with well-heeled tourists (mostly ladies) are often seen in the vicinity of the Tabuan dried fish market where the tourists shop dried fish mainly the famous "danggit." Our Ear informer who is host to one of the tourists says the word "buwad" has become as familiar to tourists from Metro Manila as "ukay-ukay."