{"id":34304,"date":"2015-01-17T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T06:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/?p=34304"},"modified":"2024-07-28T11:41:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T01:41:52","slug":"cebu-pasalubong-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/34304-cebu-pasalubong-ideas.html","title":{"rendered":"Cebuano OFWs Top 10 Pasalubong Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While a pasalubong is often understood as gifts from Filipinos coming from abroad, it&#8217;s not always the case. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Filipinos returning from vacation from the Philippines also bring treats to friends, employers or colleagues. If you&#8217;re from Cebu, you&#8217;ll likely have plenty of options. We conducted an internal survey to check out what are the most common gifts an OFW from Cebu will likely bring after a trip from his or her hometown.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danggit &#8211; is a\u00a0salted, sun-dried rabbitfish abundant in Cebu&#8217;s shallower waters. It is a popular local fare often paired with rice, eggs and vinegar-chili dip. It can be bought at grocery stores, shopping malls\u00a0or at Taboan Market where you can buy them cheaper.<\/li>\n<li>Chicharon &#8211; is pork skin crackling made either of pure skin or one that has traces of meat, stripped of oil, producing a tasty crispy bite. Carcar is a popular place to find this delicacy.<\/li>\n<li>Otap &#8211; is an oval shaped pastry consisting of flour, shortening, sugar and coconut, achieving its crunchy feel in a two-stage baking process.<\/li>\n<li>Dried Mangoes &#8211; consists of a pack of dried mango meat. There are a few variations, including the sour green mangoes and mangorinds or mango\/tamarind \u00a0mixture<\/li>\n<li>Cebu shirt &#8211; commonly found in souvenir shops, shopping malls and smaller stalls near tourist attractions.<\/li>\n<li>Torta Cebunao &#8211; has rich taste from butter, coconut, flour and milk<\/li>\n<li>Lechon &#8211; is roasted pig cooked in a pit over charcoal, a process that makes pork skin crisp.<\/li>\n<li>Key Chains &#8211; a small keepsake that comes in various designs (jeepney, guitar, I Love Cebu text, etc). It&#8217;s lightweight, cheap and non-perishable making it an easy item to carry along.<\/li>\n<li>Chorizo &#8211; is Cebu&#8217;s version of longanisa, has more meat and less fat and spices. It is widely available in supermarkets and Taboan Market.<\/li>\n<li>Guitars &#8211; is popular with locals and music-loving Filipino expatriates with its affordability and good quality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a pasalubong is often understood as gifts from Filipinos coming from abroad, it&#8217;s not always the case. Filipinos returning from vacation from the Philippines also bring treats to friends, employers or colleagues. If you&#8217;re from Cebu, you&#8217;ll likely have plenty of options. We conducted an internal survey to check out what are the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46536,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions\/46536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/pinas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}