Through the years, the Ivatan cuisine has since evolved, adapted, and adopted foreign tastes. But its traditional simple cuisine, despite the influence of modernization, has remained unique and has wowed tourists and locals over the years. Ivatans boasts of simple but healthy cuisine that will surely lead you back to Batanes!
Enjoy the cuisine original to Batanes:
1. Bagun a yuyunu – Salted small fish (local anchovies)
2. Vunes – Dried young gabi stalk chopped in fish, beef, pork, or fowl.
3. Lataven – Raw fish mixed with minced ginger and onions, calamansi juice,
hot pepper, and blanched with boiling fish broth.
4. Lunyis – Salted pork fried in its own lard.
5. Chinavules – Steamed young gabi leaves mixed with diced ginger, garlic, onions and salt.
6. Uved (called Tabtab in Sabtang island) – Grated banana corm mixed with minced fish or ground pork or beef.
7. Yellow rice – Sticky rice cooked in yellow ginger (turmeric) extract and pork.