Nice Products from Cavite

Fresh, ground Coffee beans. There's the Pahimis blend (combination of four flavors) coming from the highlands of Amadeo. The festival takes place in the month of February. There are also good coffee beans coming from Silang, Mendez and Tagaytay.

Fresh beef meat and bulalo. This is always available in Tagaytay and Mendez public markets.

Lechon Manok. It's freshly roasted, affordable and smells appettite-raising. You can select among Baliwag, Pagtakhan and San Pedro store outlets.

Mango, Pineapple, Señorita Banana and Buko. Señorita bananas are finger-length, sweet multiple bananas commonly around a thick trunk. The bananas & the coconuts are available all year round and very cheap in price. The mangoes and the pineapples are sweeter, plentier during the summer.

Corn. Inihaw na mais or nilagang mais are commonly available along the roadside on your way to Laguna via Carmona or going to Tagaytay via Aguinaldo h-way.

Malagkit na bibingka with latik toppings, puto bumbong and flour-based bibingka with salted eggs. These native delicacies are available in the inner skirts of Imus and Kawit.

Fresh Lettuce. The lettuce are commonly available in most of the farms in Silang and Tagaytay. The cold climate allows the people to grow some of the best lettuce in the country.

Tawilis. These are dried fish that you can easily buy from the Tagaytay market on weekends. The best way to cook this is to deep-fry it and the best way to eat this is to simply eat the whole thing--including the head and tail. The best tawilis will not cause any throat-itch upon eating it.

Mussel and crabs. The fresh and most affordable can be bought right after passing Coastal Road-- along the Talaba and Niog areas.

Fresh salt fishes. Tuna, yellow fin, blue marlin, tilapia and the big ones, the plapla-- they can be bought fresh at the Dasmariñas and Imus public market.

I think I feel hungry now.. Let's eat at Josephine's Tagaytay.. :)