Our first meal back in Iloilo was at the Tatoy's at Villa, in the Arevalo District of the city. Before I post about that and its environs, I wanted to write about a local delicacy that's actually quite common elsewhere in the country - wild honey. Dugos as they call it in Ilonggo is sold by ambulant vendors though you may also find them in bottles in some shops. The ones by the vendors might actually be better and collected by the vendors or their kin themselves.
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| Vendor selling dugos or wild unpasteurized honey for 50 pesos per container. He approached our group as we waited for our order of lunch from Tatoy's. |
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| What the honey looks like - dark and viscous. |
The taste brought me back to childhood days when we dipped pandesal, suman sa ibos or puto manapla during breakfasts at Tatay's home in Cabatuan. Those are happy memories I will cherish. The container for the dugos while usually (maybe traditionally) using bamboo, would have banana leaf as a lid rather than the Manila paper used here as shown in the photos. There was actually another vendor who passed by with his dugos covered by banana leaves rather than paper. The paper tends to absorb the honey and so now I have to get a container if I am to bring home some for later consumption.
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