TABO SA BANAY
Located
at Manalili Street in Cebu City, it can be accessed through a small
alley between Colon’s Jollibee and Best Buy Mart or the one across La
Fortuna Bakeshop near USJ-R. From within the city center, ride on any
public jeepney with a Colon signboard and tell the driver to drop you
off near Metro Gaisano-Colon. Tabo sa Banay is a short walk from
Gaisano. Tabo sa Banay is a type of a bazaar where inexpensive goods
from Manila, Mindanao, China, Hongkong, and even Bangkok are sold. It’s
housed under an old three storey building where the first two floors are
devoted to selling. Shopping inside a non-air-conditioned building is
uncomfortable but becomes an essential part of the exhilarating
experience.If you want to buy cheap and affordable clothing’s and apparels this is the best stop for you. They have many products to choose from and its basically a clothing haven where you can see a lot of stalls who are selling this cheap and affordable clothes, pants, short pants, t-shirts, dress and some others…Indeed, armed with only a few hundreds of pesos and the readiness to sweat a little, you would be able to stock a wardrobe good for the next season or two: from pants, shorts, leggings, blouses, dresses, and matching accessories. You can even find running clothes and other sporting gears for the athletes and other sport enthusiasts and coats and blazers for the corporate yuppies. There are hundreds of pairs of sandals and other footwear, too.
TABOAN MARKET
So
the ladies and gents of Cebu’s Taboan Market beckons every tourists who
sets foot in this famous dried fish haven. Salted and unsalted danggit,
pusit, fish bones, fish tapa, fish tocino, espada, dilis etc etc can
be found here. The moment you alight from the jeep or your vehicle
there is no denying that you have reach Taboan for the very distinct
fishy smell will assail your senses.Taboan Market maybe the country’s most popular source of dried fishes and I know that most if not all tourists, especially first timers to the province, pay this mercado a visit. And the great thing about Taboan is that this is the central hub where majority of the dried fishes haul of Cebu and nearby islands gets to be dropped off hence danggit, pusit and others are cheapest here! The only downside to every visitor’s experience is that the very strong fishy smell of the dried items will stick to the clothes, as in! You can try whisking perfumes and colognes but it won’t help much, you need to wash your clothes to get rid of the odor. That’s why I advice friends and tourist that when they do their Taboan pasalubong shopping to bring extra clothes so they can change after leaving the market or better yet head back to their hotel and take a shower.
CARBON MARKET
The Carbon Market
is the oldest and largest farmer’s market in Cebu City, located in the
Central Visayas region of the Philippines, and is a major tourist
attraction. It is wheelchair accessible. It is located in downtown Cebu
City, on MC Briones Street, Ermita barangay, and it can be reached by
most buses or jeepneys in that area. Wares sold include clothing and
kalamansi, baskets from Bohol, fish, chickens, and tripe, as well as
souvenirs and handicrafts.AYALA CENTER CEBU
Ayala Center Cebu
is a large shopping mall at the Cebu Business Park in Cebu City,
Philippines. It is the first Ayala Shopping Center located outside Metro
Manila. It was opened in 1994, and is owned by Ayala Malls. On October
30, 2008, Ayala Center Cebu unveiled “The Terraces”, a P600-million
redevelopment that transformed what used to be a simple lagoon area to a
food and beverage strip with the signature Ayala-landscaping and
orchestrated water features. Ayala Center Cebu is one of the finalist
for the Best Shopping Center of the year in 2002 for the Philippine
Retailer’s Association and Department of Trade and Industry.SM CITY CEBU
It
is the 4th shopping mall owned and developed by SM Prime Holdings, the
country’s largest shopping mall owner and developer. It is the company’s
first shopping mall outside of Metro Manila and the 4th largest
shopping mall in the Philippines.[2][3]
It has a land area of 11.8 hectares and a gross floor area of 268,611
m² (2,891,305 sq. ft.), becoming part of the world’s 15 largest shopping
malls and making it the 11th largest shopping mall in the world in
2009.[4][5] On an average day, more than 100,000 people visit SM City Cebu, with the figure increasing to 140,000 to 150,000 on weekends.[6]
Due to Cebu City’s position as a transshipment point for the Visayas
and Mindanao, and SM City Cebu’s location close to the city’s port area,
the mall attracts a significant number of transient shoppers.Construction on SM City Cebu’s expansion building, dubbed the Northwing, began in March 2006.[8] The expansion, which was developed at a cost of P1.3 billion (US$30.5 million), was built on the parking lot to the north of the existing building, temporarily decreasing the number of parking spaces by more than 30%.[8][9] The Northwing was started in April 2007, and opened in November 2007, featuring spacious hallways catering to the leisure market and upper class customers, while the existing mall, redubbed as the Southwing, is targeted for those who “love the hustle and bustle”.[9] It increased the total gross floor area of SM City Cebu by 107,049 m², for a total of 268,611 m²
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