🍰 Famous foods & delicacies of Negros
What to eat in Negros Island, and where to find it.
- Chicken Inasal — Bacolod (Manokan Country). Charcoal-grilled chicken in vinegar–lemongrass–annatto marinade, with chicken-oil rice.
- Piaya — Bacolod, Talisay, Silay. Flat unleavened bread filled with muscovado — the sweet symbol of the sugar province.
- Napoleones — Bacolod, Silay. Flaky puff pastry layered with custard and glazed with sugar.
- Barquillos & Barquiron — Bacolod, Silay. Crisp rolled wafers, sometimes filled with polvoron.
- Pinasugbo — Bacolod. Banana strips fried in caramelized sugar with sesame seeds.
- Lumpia Ubod — Silay (El Ideal). Fresh spring roll with heart of coconut palm.
- Guapple Pie — Silay (El Ideal). Pie made with the giant 'guapple' guava.
- Kansi — Bacolod. Beef shank and bone-marrow soup soured with batwan fruit.
- KBL (Kadyos, Baboy, Langka) — Bacolod, Silay and across Negros Occidental. Sour pork soup with kadyos (pigeon peas) and young jackfruit (langka), soured with batwan.
- Piaya — Ube & Mango flavors — Bacolod pasalubong shops. The classic flaky piaya filled with sweet ube or ripe mango instead of muscovado.
- Batchoy — Iloilo (La Paz), Bacolod. Rich pork broth with noodles, liver, crushed chicharon.
- Puto Manapla — Manapla. Soft rice cakes steamed in banana leaf cones.
- Talaba (Oysters) — Ilog, Hinigaran, Pulupandan. Fresh, cheap oysters from the Negros coast.
- Budbud Kabog & Sikwate — Tanjay, Dumaguete. Millet rice cake in banana leaf with native hot chocolate.
- Silvanas & Sans Rival — Dumaguete. Cashew-meringue layers with buttercream.
- Muscovado Sugar — Negros-wide. Unrefined cane sugar — the root of all Negros sweets.