Cebu City Food Market & Cooking Lesson

Get under the skin of Cebuano food culture on this four-hour experience that pairs a walk through the city's legendary Carbon Market with a hands-on cooking lesson. Carbon is the oldest and largest public market in Cebu, a sprawling, sensory feast of fresh produce, seafood, tropical fruit, and street-food stalls humming with energy. With a local guide you will sample Cebu classics as you go, crispy lechon, the city's world-famous roast pig with crackling skin, puso hanging rice, fresh seaweed salad, siomai, and the rich, communal dip known as tuslob-buwa.

With your basket of market-fresh ingredients in hand, you will then head to the kitchen for a guided cooking lesson, learning to prepare beloved Filipino dishes from scratch under the eye of a local cook. Beyond recipes, you will pick up the techniques, ingredients, and stories behind Cebuano cuisine, then sit down to enjoy the meal you have made. It is an immersive, delicious way to understand a city often called the food capital of the Visayas, and to take a taste of it home with you.