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Food adventurers, be ready with the must-taste Vigan cuisine.

Once you reach the heart of the city, you don't have to go far to find
the famous comfort food of Vigan. Right at the Plaza Burgos, food
stalls are lined along to offer a great culinary experience.

Vigan Empanada. It is a Spanish influenced food, a stuffed bread or
pastry that may be fried or baked. What makes the Vigan Empanada
different is that it has a very thin crust and it is fried rather than
baked making it crispy, it's more similar to Batac empanada. The
filling is a mix of meat and vegetables. It consist of mung bean
sprout, shredded green papaya,  skinless longganisa and an egg.
Sometimes they add shredded carrots and the last time I got a taste of
it, it has cabbage. Vigan empanada cost at about 35 pesos. Other sizes
are available and extra filling to choose from like hotdog.

Okoy. Fried shrimps, in flour and egg mixture.

Miki noodle soup. The noodles are made from rice flour. It's actually
the chicken noodle soup of the Ilocanos.


Other foods available in carinderias and food stalls in the city's
public market.

Sinanglao. It is an  iconic food of Vigan.  It's  a beef soup made up
of beef innards.

Pinapaitan. It's a beef or goat soup made up of innards and is
flavored with bile.

Poqui-poqui. The eggplant is boiled then mashed. It's stir-fried with
tomatoes, onion and garlic. Chili flakes can be added as well.

Lumo. A soup made up of pork tenderloin with shallot and flavored with
pork blood.


Other must-taste cuisine.

Vigan Longganisa. Its a native sausage, it's said to be a Mexican
salami version. Its garlic flavored.

Vigan Bagnet. A sun-dried pork belly then deep-fried. It's actually
one of the most famous Ilocano cuisine. It's a great garnish for
pinakbet.


Vigan Delicacies or the locals call kankanen.

Royal Bibingka or Rice Cake. It is the most famous delicacy from
Vigan. Especially made with glutinous rice, egg, cheese, sugar, milk
and margarine.

Tinupig or Tupig. Rice cake wrapped with banana leaves. It's roasted.

Tinubong. Rice cake cooked in bamboo tubes. It's really delicious.

Kalamay. It's made up of sticky-rice flavored with coconut and sugar.


So when you visit Vigan, don't worry about getting tired and hungry
after roaming around the city. There are a lot of food that will
surely comfort you.