Davao’s best ‘tapa’—Duterte’s favorite—and barbecue, Tarta de Santiago

When one is visiting a place, whether for the first or the umpteenth time, it is the first meal that sets the tone for the rest of the visit. Arriving in Davao City at past noon, we held our hunger pangs because we were promised one of the best tapa in the country. My friend miscalculated the distance to the place, figuring we could walk it. Thankfully, he hired a tricycle instead and, as it turned out, it could be walking distance if one was willing to eat an hour later. Sara's is a carinderia owned by a Boholanon. It bills itself as "Original Kabawan and Bulalohan." A kabaw is a carabao, my Visayan five-year-old niece told me years ago. She looked at me strangely when I cor...

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