Tabo-an Market in Cebu City houses dozens of stores offering rich selection of different dried seafood including fish tocino (sweetened dried fish), dried squid, dried shrimps, dried mussels, and fish tapa. Yet among these best-seller varieties remains danggit, locally known as “buwad” in the province. The marinated danggit is the most popular among tourists. One of the store owners and distributors of danggit in Tabo-an Market is Rafaela Ducay. Rafaela recalled her teenage memories not going out with friends but out in the market yelling “buwad”.

Payling’s Dried Fish and Pasalubong Center. (2020, January 21). Daily Guardian, pp. 9, 11.