May
10Market day in Tanauan, Leyte
Filed Under (Native Delicacies) by Ernie Teston on 10-05-2007
I happened to get back to Tacloban City for a two day roadshow presentation to launch a livelihood grant program last April 19-20, 2007 for the benefit of our brothers in Region VIII (The program is called Grassroots Entrepreneurs for Ecotourism or aptly acronymed GREET. It was conceived to enhance the livelihood opportunities preferably for promising young entrepreneurs who can best explore the inherent tourist drawing potentials of the ecotourism sites. The GREET Program would provide livelihood grants amounting to Php 50,000 up to Php100,000 to deserving groups or individuals with feasible entrepreneurial/business proposals in eco tourism sites in the country. Tanauan residents, though not necessarily an ecotourism site, can avail of this grant through submission of a business proposal which has something to do with positioning Tanauan Leyte as the skimboarding capital. This is rather an emerging eco-sports tourism site, I am telling you. Now, this is a GRANT my dear readers! If you’re a local resident and interested, you may visit our website: www.wowpinoy.net/greet).
Well, what can make you say one person is lucky? Well, talk about me. Yeah, I was able to go home practically free! Working for the Philippine tourism truly has its advantages. I was really laughing on my way home Saturday afternoon after staying at MacArthur Park & Beach Resort for two nights and the two days of grueling roadshow campaign. Whew! Home at last after some time! I extended my stay definitely!
Anyway, this blog is not about the said grant and my being lucky (hehehehe), but on the activities one usually do while in town. This is also intended for our fellow Tanuaneños abroad who may want a glimpse of that one special place, a seemingly ordinary yet important location that has definitely contributed a lot to who we are as a true-blooded Tanuaneño. I guess you are dying to see the development that has occurred while you are away, nowhere else but our public market!
My dear kababayans, guess what? Whenever I am in town, I usually spend half of my day in our public market. I was just so lucky it was Sunday the next day and a market day or a “tabo†in our town. I know each hard core Tanuaneño who may have left the town really long for Tanauan staples and ignite those childhood memories spent choosing the best suman, moron, sagmani, palawan, gaway or your favorite childhood “ice crumble†with our suki tindera, to boot. Returning home would not be complete without the-so-called “panmemerkadoâ€. And there could be no better day than to do it on a Sunday morning, right?
Well, I am letting you in to the wonderful world that is our Agora Public Market. With these videos and various pictures, I just hope these help diminish your homesickness of our beloved home town.
Now called Tanauan Agora Public Market, it is still the center of commerce for local produce of our farmers. Now, do you believe that as early as 12 am, our local farmers and vendors flock to the market to get a strategic location to sell their wares? Some Tanuananons and even nearby towns also make it a point to go to the market as early as 4am to have the best lot of our local crops.
Nothing much has changed in terms of the market’s physical infrastructure, but I guess, for those who have not returned home for the last ten years, a look at how our public market has evolved, is best explained by the video and pictures below. I guess, one feels he enters a different world when inside the market. Stalls lining up and almost endless at that, waiting, barking and calling on for buyers and suki’s, just suddenly grab you and you end up psyched to dig deep into your pockets:
Do you want some more? Well, I just acted as a tourist, that is for your benefit, and took some short videos of what’s inside the busy market on a “tabo†day. Wow, I was rubbing elbows with other shoppers. That was how full the market is with people buying their needs.
The video you will see will illustrate how it has evolved from the time you last came here. Noticed any changes?
I have also seen how fake videos have also invaded the public market and sold without hesitation. I have seen the same kind as well in all my travels. Thus, no one can really stop this piracy. It has truly burgeoned into a multi-million industry. And Tanauan is no exception, mind you.
The Agora Public Market has also extended in terms of size. It has now covered up to Burgos St. and gone on to cover two blocks more near the adjoining what we usually call as “Pawa St.†In here, you can find the different rootcrops, animal feeds, and vegetables. It now houses the terminal for tricycles bound for suburbs. Other terminals can be found from two corners of the adjoining market streets, one in the cross-section of Imelda and Burgos Sts. and the other street which escapes my memory.
Also, for your information, we now have a 24-hour bakeshop located corner of Burgos and Imelda Blvd. Different grocery stores are also found along Imelda Blvd., burger joints and the tasty lechon manok (the best ever!).
Truly, it’s time you come back to our beloved town. Go to the market and come out withâ€hukot-hukot†of memories you will never experience anywhere else. As for me, I went back to the market four times as I had to! I first went home with lots and lots of rootcrops (camote, gaway, palawan, saging, balanghoy, ube, etc.). I also had to buy the dahon ng gaway for the “dagmay†(who does not love this utan, sige daw?)It was so heavy I had to go back for my next round of purchase, this time I came home heavy with lawlaw, bulad, barol and bagoong hipon. I was not contented yet, so I had to go back anew! This time, I went home with nuos, turingan, liempo baboy and pakdol (it was requested by my father, so I had no choice but to buy it). And who would forget, a kilo of lechon baboy!That made my shoulder ached!
Found below are pics of the different delicacies, fish products, down to lawlaw, lansones, and other drool-worthy foods reflective of us Tanuaneños. Hope these make you salivate, hehehehe.
The fourth and last time I went back to our Agora, I brought home with me the kakanins: moron, suman, lidgid, the colorful puto, sagmani, kutsinta. I also went for the mani, piñato, sweet tamarind, bukarilyo and other sweets. Mind you, I almost forgot to buy that so much-missed tablea, for the hot tsokolate to match my barol and dagmay!
But the best experience of going to the market and the beauty of it all is, you get to meet your former classmates, friends and even former sweethearts and ex-crushes whom you haven’t met for the longest time! Thus, tsismisan and kumustahan were inevitable. “Who marries whomâ€, how many children do they haveâ€, how one has changed in appearanceâ€, etcetera, etcetera. Some classmates even turned out to be the tinderas and tinderos, you end up buying even if you don’t need his/her wares nor want it!Hay, Tanauan Agora Public Market! Without you noticing it, you also lost track of time. And in a flurry, you are invited to come over for dinner, get-togethers and reunions!
And whew, how exhilarating it was! Now, you may ask why I managed to come back to the market four times? Well, I happen to live on this street just next our market and just beside the 24-hour bakeshop. Thus, the “I shall return†motto was an easy excuse!
Anyhow, I hope that with this blog, I have rekindled old memories and the food we yearn for from our cherished Tanauan Agora Public Market.
Aguidaw, napalaway man ini nga imo mga guin post nga peechurs:-) dinhe, Erning! Honestly, I really miss all the chaos in mercado every Sunday. What I really miss the most is the lechon, gaway ngan an mga lidgid nga baligya ha mercado kada tabo. Mauli-uli!!!!
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balitaw…. naglalaway na ako… mauli man ak may 22 kay reujion ha TSCHI
ha…ha…ha…
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kumusta daw…cring n jon pati…
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ayy!! nagpapahinumdum na it puro patron yana nga bulan,interesting blog!
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maupay pa kamo kay pwede makauli……it ak na mi miss an kinilaw nga tangige, lupak nga kamote ngan gaway, arasip……..
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Oh my goodness! there goes my cravings for suman moron and suman bandera…hmmm…yummy! I will order some from my cousin to bring them as pasalubong…I can’t wait now!
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Hey jen, what is suman bandera? Natanga liwat ak hit suman bandera. Probably with a proper description, maalala ko yan.
Erning next time you post this kind of blog make sure you have patikim (free taste). Hmmmm…. yung lechon every sunday ha merkado… an kinilo ngani… karasa nga sura ha pamahaw… padisan hin gaway. AGIDAW…. sanglit deri ko ig-tutubyan an Tanauan bisla kun masamok danay…
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agidaw mayda pa hin-ngalimtan… an manipis nga hotcake nga puro harina… binubutangan hin STAR margarine tapos igtunlob ha asukar… (teka lang punas muna ako ng l#$%y….) tapos paghahauna pala… pagpunas han margarine nga nagmimik-il dayon…. hagi kamakalilisang… anay ha mauli na ako ngada…
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maverick, naka-tikim ako ng suman bandera kasi ang mother ko o hin-o la nga mauli sa tanauan hadto, may ada pasalubong sa amin. so, yung suman bandera ay suman na divided into white and brown colors. yung white matabang, whereas, yung brown, matamis..Super-duper, masarap talaga at mabango pa. hmmm… In fact, today, I reminded my mom to order some from Tanauan para i-padara dinhi ha Calif…Basta ilagay la sa freezer, diri masisira. Diri pa ako nakatikim yang hotcake. Mukhang masarap the way you described it…hmmm. nakakagutom, no? heheh! AGIDAW!
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Hi Jen, stateside ka pala… anyways to give you a clearer picture of the manipis na hotcake… its in the picture (4th from the last together with the banana-que and turon) that ernie posted. Shown also in the picture is the sugar and margarine. hehehe….
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Hi marverick, Diri ako stateside. So happens nakarating dito. hehhe! by the way, I’ve seen the hotcakes..Thanks. They look like tortillas, but of course, I would prefer to eat that kind of hotcakes than tortillas. I love Tanauan delicacies, with the exception of gabi and sagmani. Pero, ang moron, bandera and lidguid, hmmm, they’re they best…:)
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it ak mga paborito ha mercado, among others… lato (igsawsaw ha suoy)… masag… burot (karasa hini nga prinito ngan paksiw)… tahong… turingan… kadamo la nga nahangalimot ak hit mga ngaran. Ngan an ak paborito na utan –> lawot-lawot. husto na kay naglalaway na ak… hehehe…
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Erning, pagkuha pa gad hin damo na picture especially hit aton mercado.
Kon amo la guihap it mga buildings labi na an mga daan na gud, siguro it’s time for the municipality to allocate funds for the construction of new buildings and demolish the old ones. bangin mga dumog na haton ngan para liwat hit safety hit aton mga tawo. I envision it as something pedestrian friendly, provide some parking spaces somewhere. Waray unta na mga sarakyan na maagi pagsulod ha mercado kay nakakatrapik la iton. I agree to have the entire public market re-designed kon may-ada budget.
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baga nakakagutom an mga pictures. especially nga tabo day gud yana ha tanauan!
two things i miss, an sampilot ngan han (i forgot the name) an pagkaon nga lidong, flat an one side and rounded on the other side nga may kagod nga matam-is ha sakob. waray ako makakita hini dida han pictures. As far as i can recall it was somebody who was from san miguel/pago? who made it.
available pa ba ini ha aton? if so, hin-o ba it pwede kadtuon para maka order hini?
I am going home next week to attend the GRAND ALUMNI HOMECOMING of ASSUMPTION ACADEMY and many other karisyuhan. unta may mag post kun hain ba makakapalit/order hito nga 2 delicacies naton.
‘m going home this 16th for all sorts of karisyohan… birthday/house blessing, santa cruz with high school group/elementary group, and most of all GRAND REUNION of Assumption Academy!, etc. etc.
sigurado may LECHON! agidaw it akon rayuma madungan naman! hehehehe
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please paki post nala denhi kun allowed hit admin an an grand alumni homecoming pictures ha assumption, waray pa gud ak hiton maka-attend tikang ha ka tikang. mahal it pamasahe, ngan it ak pag-uuli permi autumn salit waray karisyuhan, balit gad miss ko na gud an tanauan.
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yes, sure. just send me the pictures and of course kun makakahimo ka hin write-ups about hit nanabo hit reunion, mas maupay.
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May 19(6pm) alumni han TSCHI
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Hagi ka man kamaka iipa nim…. kami ngani didi waray Autumn. Gutum lugod… just kidding. Peace…
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. . .ako nahuhulop hit midya o diri ngani wan port nga tuba hahahah. . . .
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agidaw an sampilot.. peborit ko gud iton… labi na an luto ni mana landa nga taga buntay… mag-aram ini an mga taga Tanauan I Central… An nutriban liwat nga pinapalaman han ice cream ni man crising o di ngani an bubble ice crean ni man entoy… pastilan hin kamakalilisang. wa say ang sundae ng mcdo at jollibee. Iba gad la gihap ang kahadto…
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tsiseran hin pipsi… sumsuman hin paksiw nga tuwalya ngan hin kinilaw nga tangigi… walastik….
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mabirik, balitaw gad it ak karuyag sidngun it ak pag uuli pyesta la han mga santos ngan han mga minatay, hehehehe, pis!!!
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Agi iton,pag uuli ko pla last 2005 and last yr. pro mauli uli na lwat yna nga tuig,mahidlaw gad hin duro,saypa kun tabo harani gud la kmi ha merkado. kda sunday,dri gud ak nag mumuok,aga aga pa,napa market na pag palit hin puto,suman,moron,cochinta,an pinudyot ngan hot cake ni mana alice. karasa nman la,waray diet diet pag nauli! paborito ko gud an ice cramble ngan hot cake heheh. ha mga utan,mahidlaw na it lawot,dagmay,nangka padisan hin budo,dri gani bulad kun mahal lawlaw nla hmmmm.
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Ginugutom na ako. Pati liwat ako inuuli-uli na la liwat. An Dagmay, Barol, Tsokolate ngan han hinatukan nga kan-on, karasa hin duro. Tapos kun baga mayda pa sobra han budget puydi gihap dunganan han hinatukan nga native nga manok nga gin uupdan han dugo han manok pagluto tapos minalunggayan. Syempre para kompleto na baga side dish an law-law di ngani sisi. Agidaw kay mas digana kun mayda liwat lato nga makarub-karub. Pagkatapos kumaon…katurugan ha duyan didto ha may balkon di ngani ha may ubos ha sirong hit puno. Pagmata nim andam na an sahog di ngani ginat-an… Ay human…. Matiklaad ka na. Pastilan hin karasa. Makalilisang hin duro… Pagka gab-i… inman hin bahal nga tsinisiran hin pipsi tapos an sumsuman kinilaw di ngani pakdol…
Ta hala…. contact na la ngadaan hin nurse para magpa BP ka kinabuwasan… (kun ig-aabot ka pa)
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ginat-an! awww, an kan mana pitang kada alas-tres han kulop (ha salbasyon); nga sukot la utang o diri ngani duha nga tunga hin cup nga tag .25 centimos. . .salamat nala kon ha-in ka naman yana ha kalangitan.
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Agidaw ha salvation… paralitan ko iton hadto hin dagmay nga Utan nga tag-piso an usa ka baso.
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may-ada la guihap dagmay didto ha may salvacion. tag 15 or 20 pesos na an takos.
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waray man kaupod ha picture an kada kulop nga baduya ni mana flor.makarubkarub nga baduya.napila anay pag pareserva kay damo pumaralit.nagluluto pala hiya,nakareserva na.
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alagad hit tsisiran hin.. PIPSI.. hehe.. bangin liwat CUKE.. hehehe.. PIPSI!!! hehehehahahaha…
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Di ako Pilipino! Ako ay isang Waray!! Joke hehe!! Nakakagutom talaga yong nabanggit na mga pakains ,lalo na yung mga matatamis. E ako nama’y taga Tanauan din at noong medyo kokonti pa ang nararamdamang squeaks sa katawan,pagkaaraw ng Domingo madilim pa e naroon na ako sa me palengke.Meron din akong paninda na gulay, niyog at iba pa. Tulad ng tawag ng marami sa amin na di taga bungto ,”TAGA SULOD”ako. Tatlong km. mula bungto patungong Dagami ang baryo namin. Huli kong uwi e matagal na.Malapit na ang 30 taon. Matagal na ba ito talaga????TANONG LANG OYE!!!
Kaya naman e tulad ng marami sa atin na kulang ang pamasahe,itong blog na lang ang inuuwian ko. Talagang nakakamiss ang Tanauan -ang ating bayan.Meron din akong mga kakilala diyan malapit sa lumang palengke. Apelyedo e de Veyra. Ewan ko lang kung natatandaan pa ako nila. At kapag fiesta ng Tanauan madalas e kasama ako ng yumao kong ina papunta sa bahay ng mga de Veyra.Ano pa di para kumain ng pancit at bwesitin ang ina ko sa kakahingi ng pantaya sa - yong lubid na hinuhugot habang pigil ng isang mama ang bungkos-natural daya -talo ako.At ang papel na inilulubog sa tubig tapos lalabas ang numero na nakasulat.
Sa mga nabanggit na mga pagkain na matatmis meron akong di kilala.Ang “SAGMANI”. Matamis din marahil ito at ito kaya e SAGING AT MANI?? SARAP MARAHIL ITO ‘NO?? Balik sa araw ng Domingo. Pag nabenta na ang paninda ko noon e ang binibili ko agad e ang binagol. E kasarap!! Tapos sasakay na sa jeep ni Angel na de Veyra din ata ang apelyedo. Marahil ngbakasyon na siya ng walang katapusan. Siya e matangkad at mestizuhin.Me kaputian at belyako.Hehe!!
Nagulat ako nung una akong makapunta sa site ito. Ang laki na ng inunlad ng bayan kahit na namamayani pa rin ang dirty politics at corruption.Tulad na lang ng local police station at ang palengke.Man Tanauan is really going up!!! Kaya miss ko na talaga ang bungto ng Tanauan at ang aming baryo. An amon sulod. I’m proud to be a taga sulod!! It’s cool man!!
Meron pa akong mga natatandaan na mga taga bungto. Sila e mga teachers ko nung ako’y nagaaral ng elementary. Teka muna bago ako palayasin ng administrator ng site na ito, talagang malaking tulong itong site na ito para sa aming kulang ng pamasahe at di makauwi, this is a blessing salamat hin damo. Balik sa mga guros. Heto ang mga naging teachers ko:Miss Mendiola ,Miss Espina; Miss Gobenciong; Mrs. Mazo at pati yata si Mr. Aniban.Where could they be now?? Hi everybody!! What’s up??
Kaya kung sakali me mag magandang loob na mag post uli dito,umaasa ako na me pahiwatig kon ano an “sagmani”. If someone happens to know one Mr. TEOTIMO CATAN , (I believe he is a teacher,just don’t know what he teaches and where) kindly inform him of this long posting.I would like to communicate with him. Or if you Mr. Catan reads this,please post something. I understand he (TEOTIMO) was a candidate during the last barangay elections.An independent one. He was not lucky though!!
Tulad ng nasabi ko sa itaas,diri ako Pilipino.Ako ay usa nga Waray.Biro lang oye!! Ipagpatuloy ang pagpapaunlad ng Tanauan.Mabuhay kita ngatanan!!Maraming salamat po. Ciaoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
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