Banana Snack Vendors at the Oval Covered Court
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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.
He has worked throughout Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. Currently, he devotes his time, beauty, and talent in the fields of Communications, Marketing and Media.
He is also the unofficial leader of the Soccsksargen Bloggers, a motley group of online writers who share a common goal to write what\'s true, good, progressive and beautiful about South Central Mindanao and her people.
arfel-toronto Says:
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
Posted on December 19th, 2007 at 11:26 AM
orman Says:
i love my maruya wrapped in lumpia wrapper and in between merong langka….weeeee….
ormans last blog post..nakakapagod.
Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Jordan Ray Quinco Says:
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!
Posted on February 4th, 2009 at 12:35 AM
paul Says:
diri baya ko gisugot sa akong uyab sa highschool, nyahahahahaha =))
Posted on May 26th, 2009 at 10:32 PM
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