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title: Pekto's Sizzling Plato (Mercato de Mactan)
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# Pekto's Sizzling Plato (Mercato de Mactan)

Places we stopped along the way　/　Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu

A sizzling-plate stall at Mercato de Mactan, a night market in Lapu-Lapu City. The sisig is stir-fried on a hot iron plate and served with a raw egg, mayonnaise, green chilies and kalamansi. I ate it with puso, rice wrapped in coconut leaves, and a mango smoothie. Mercato de Mactan is an open-air food market in So-ong II, Lapu-Lapu City.

## This moment in the journey: To the night market at dusk

For dinner, let's go to a night market, the tropical way. A jeepney full of passengers drove down a street glowing in the evening sun. Bunches of bananas hung in front of a shop.

I headed for Mercato de Mactan, a night market lined with food stalls. As the light bulbs came on, I found a sizzling-plate stall. The cook brushed oil onto a hot iron plate and tossed ingredients in a flaming pan.

And one thing you can't miss in Filipino food is sisig. Finely chopped pork and onions were stir-fried briskly with wooden spatulas, then finished with a raw egg, mayonnaise, green chilies and kalamansi, and brought to me still sizzling.

![Sisig topped with egg, mayonnaise and green chilies](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/mactan/s89-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://weekend.sunstar.com.ph/blog/2019/08/25/lapu-lapu-eats/
- Sources: https://www.theasianaffairs.com/?p=101201

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/mactan/