NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines – Two Ilolio City public markets with SM mall components that were redeveloped via a P2-billion public-private partnership (PPP) have boosted Iloilo City’s “palengke (market) tour.”
Eight months since reopening in October last year, both the Iloilo Central Market (ICM) and Iloilo Terminal Market (ITM) now serve as the “new face” for Iloilo City, also known as the “City of Love”.
Before the market redevelopment was undertaken by SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SM Prime) sometime in 2022, the “palengke tour” at the Iloilo Central Market and the Iloilo Terminal Market centered mainly on “batchoy (Ilonggo noodle soup) and halo-halo (shaved ice dessert) tourism.” (READ: ‘That is sweet!’ Gordon Ramsay judges Ninong Ry’s, Judy Ann Santos’ halo-halo)
People, especially visitors from other regions, flocked to both the Iloilo Central Market and the Iloilo Terminal Market just to eat the famous Ilonggo batchoy and halo-halo.
As they say, one shouldn’t leave Iloilo City without going to the Iloilo Central Market or the Iloilo Terminal Market for the best batchoy and halo-halo in town. (Rundown: La Paz Batchoy, Pancit Molo, and the iconic Iloilo eats)
