Tabuan Dried Fish Market, Cebu City
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(DSC02751) Tabuan (or Taboan) Dried Fish Market, Cebu City - It should be noted that the "buwad" hawked for the benefit of the tourists is not the same variety commonly consumed in the Cebuano home. There are dozens of varieties of dried fish; buwad can be largely divided into two categories of salted and unsalted. Most of the buwad consumed at home on a daily basis is the cheaper salted variety. This is killer stuff. Literally - there is so much salt in buwad that a substantial proportion of the urban and rural poor suffers from high blood pressure. While once upon a time the salt fields of Mandaue were sufficient to meet demand, but nowadays freighters haul rock salt all the way from Jordan. The most common fish used for buwad is budburon. This retails for around 10 pesos per pack of five, which comes to around 4 US cents per fish. Now that's cheap! The more expensive varieties, often bought as souvenirs for friends and family back home, are stuff like dilis (a teensy weensy variety), tabaga, boneless tusino or tusino tapa (tapa being anything spiced, sweetened, and flattened), pusit (squid). Buwad are usually prepared by quickly frying them in oil, but a microwave can be used (though most people who own microwaves don't eat buwad). The entire fish can be consumed, including the tail, the spine, and the head. The head, when soaked in native vinegar, has an indescribable aroma, rich and powerful. (Taken from http://www.wayblima.com/cebu-food-buwad. html)
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