Youngsters choosing from a variety of fried banana, a local snack fare which includes “mArUyA”, “TuRoN”, and “pAypAy” from one of the stalls behind the bleachers of the oval plaza covered court.
Recently transferred there from their old site fronting the MSU Highschool Campus, these banana-quevendors are again enjoying brisk business from clients at the surrounding offices and schools.
i wonder how many children have been sent to high school and college by parents who are among these banana stalls? this sidewalk yummy cheap and safe and healthy snack have been there for eternity..i started teaching in MSU gensan in 1987 and they were already there. what, its more than 20 years since then (oh, i feel ancient now!)and they are stil there! not only thriving but flourishing! we cant seem to have enough of bananas..probably explaines why we have such banana government sometimes….hahahahaha…i miss this food…really…arfel-toronto
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Bariles is a Filipino word for “Tuna”, the primary source of income of the people of General Santos City which hosts 6 of the Philippines’ 8 tuna canneries and more than 80% of its tuna processing plants.
The city boasts of the only “Tuna Festival” in the world celebrated every September 5 in commemoration of its charterhood anniversary.
Bariles is also the alias of this blog's author who would like nothing than to write about his beloved city by the bay and share it with his kababayans from all over.
Aside from being a blogger, Bariles is a Google Map Maker enthusiast, the Convenor of the annual Blogfest Soccskargen, the organizer of the SEX Tour for Bloggers and the co-founder & self-proclaimed mother hen of the Soccsksargen Bloggers. His daytime job? Media Affairs Officer of the highest office of the city.
arfel-toronto12/19/2007 at 11:26 AM
i wonder how many children have been sent to high school and college by parents who are among these banana stalls? this sidewalk yummy cheap and safe and healthy snack have been there for eternity..i started teaching in MSU gensan in 1987 and they were already there. what, its more than 20 years since then (oh, i feel ancient now!)and they are stil there! not only thriving but flourishing! we cant seem to have enough of bananas..probably explaines why we have such banana government sometimes….hahahahaha…i miss this food…really…arfel-toronto
orman09/26/2008 at 2:14 PM
i love my maruya wrapped in lumpia wrapper and in between merong langka….weeeee….
ormans last blog post..nakakapagod.
Jordan Ray Quinco02/04/2009 at 12:35 AM
when i’m on duty sa RED CROSS… i always buy maruya here para may snack ako every hapon..eheheh… try their rice turon… its like biko/turon.. ehhehe!
paul05/26/2009 at 10:32 PM
diri baya ko gisugot sa akong uyab sa highschool, nyahahahahaha =))
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[...] this far since that time when a tech-challenged newbie blogger first published an entry entitled, “Banana Snack Vendors at the Oval Plaza Court” in a blog he named as BARILES REPUBLIC, An Idiot’s Guide to Gen. Santos [...]