Places to eat in Province of Misamis Oriental

Linugos has not one formal restaurant to speak of, tho the local market place has individual stalls with hot pre-prepared dishes you can pick from . This is where visitors actually convene and wait out the seemingly interminable hours to watch a bit of local market scene, meet many village inhabitants coming to buy fruits and vegetables, also where the daily bingo takes place and where the few jeepneys (mini-vans) pick up passengers to the border town ten minutes away on the main highway where one can then get on the buses that ply from one main city/towns to the next within the province. If you're visiting to spend time to have a good look at this serence village, you will most likely be invited by the locals to partake meals and even bunk down for the night at their homes entirely free of charge. When this happens, it is good civilized and admirable behavior to accept the invitation the way the locals would want you to by which to show them that you are sincere about your visit but also that your gesture of acceptance is in accordance with the age-old cultural practice of the country's well-known hospitality. Be ready however with a good excuse in case you intend to gently refuse the offer.

Favorite Dish: The food in town is very basic but filling and even good depending on one's adventurous spirit. They are mostly seafood-based and very fresh (as are the fruits and vegetables ) as the town literally stands at the fingertip to stare at the Pacific Ocean. Plentiful among the fish are sardines, panit (tuna), scabbard fish, swordfish, sea bream, the indigenous bangus (milk fish), etc. Of the meat, pork is the most common and plentiful, along with the very lean local chicken. The specialty of the town is the kinilaw - literally raw fish salad where the fish, e.g. sardines are filleted and the flesh cut in slices or cubes and cooked in lime juice, salt and spiced up with pepper, scallions and the grated meat of tabun-tabun, a highly aromatic and flavourful nut tree that is indigenous to the village.