Pension Ivatan — Uvud, Lunis & Dibang Platter

year-round (call ahead to pre-order)

A short walk from Basco Airport, the Ivatan Platter at Pension Ivatan holds three dishes with no equivalents elsewhere in the Philippines: uvud (small balls of grated banana pith mixed with ground pork or fish and local spices), lunis (pork preserved in salt and cooked in its own fat — no soy sauce, no vinegar, tastes genuinely ancient), and dibang (flying fish, fried or air-dried one day in salt and vinegar). Local's tip: call ahead to pre-order the full platter — it doesn't sit waiting in steam trays; and if anyone mentions tatus (coconut crab), treat it as off-limits unless a local host explicitly offers it, given its current endangered status.

Source: www.rjdexplorer.com