Your visit to Davao City won’t be complete if you’re not able to navigate the streets of Bankerohan Public Market. It’s situated in Marfori Street, Barangay, Davao City, 8000 Davao del Sur. Aside from dry and wet market, from fruit stands to pasalubongs, eateries are located at its center.

If you remember the commercial with a tagline “San makakarating ang beynte pesos mo?” or “Where can your twenty pesos go?” The answer is ofcourse in Bankerohan Public Market. With twenty pesos (PhP20), you can buy a cup of hot chocolate or opt to add PhP3 for a milky chocolate (PhP23). It’s pure chocolate so add a teaspoon of your choice sugar – white or brown.

Pair your “mainit na tsokolate” with puto maya, a purple sticky rice for only PhP12 (twelve pesos). It’s like suman but not sweet. Get a spoonful of puto maya and dip it on Tsokolate or pour in the hot chocolate on the puto to make it sweet – It’s how locals eat it.

Another soup dish to add on your list is the Mami noodle soup with Pork Bones for only PhP65 (Sixty five pesos). You would really get your hands dirty with this soup as you need to hold the Pork Bones (two pieces) for a bite while sipping the oily broth and firm noodles. Don’t forget to bring your cholesterol meds for this.

Bangkerohan Public Market is where you can also buy the cheapest fruits as per the locals. The guide in Museo Dabawenyo advised us to buy here for Pasalubongs. Just go to the innermost part of the public market and get to choose the fruits you want.

Note that they don’t have free taste for Class A Suha or the Menzi Brand. We’re also unable to taste the Durian because we need to buy the whole fruit and not just a piece of it. If you consider buying one, choose the “Puyat” and “Arancillo” Durian Variants as the smell is way tolerable than others.

Have you visited this public market?