Popular snack stands along Plaza Burgos serve up a variety of local treats, among others, like:
sinanglao soup made from beef innards
arroz caldo rice soup with chicken
miki flat noodles in a thick soup with meat bits and sometimes drizzled with eggs
empanada turnover with a filling of eggs, Vigan longganisa/sausage and vegetables wrapped in a rice flour crust/shell
okoy a pancake made with local shrimp.
Nobody should leave Vigan without tasting their empanada. It is a different concoction from the flour-based empanada that one usually knows.
Royal Bibingka is very popular at Tongson's Royal Bibingka, #8 Florentino St., Vigan City--just a street away from Plaza Burgos.
Also, one should have a try of the Vigan longganisa which is spicy unlike its Pampanga counterpart which is sweetish.
There is also a delicacy called tinubong, a sticky sweet rice cake that's sold in bamboo tubes, and you have to break the bamboo to eat the sticky sweet rice inside. They are usually sold in the Heritage Village in bundles of three to five.
Fried tasty corn cornick can also be bought in the various stalls. It comes plain or flavoured.
Native sugar is also made in surrounding towns and barangays of Vigan. However, they are in the form of tagapulot molasses and balikutsa a very hard sugar concoction shaped into scrolls.
