The Ozamiz City Market is the commercial and culinary heart of the city — a sprawling wet and dry market that opens before dawn and stays busy until late afternoon. The seafood section is the reason to come: Panguil Bay yields bangus (milkfish), lapu-lapu (grouper), squid, and shrimp, most of it caught that morning. Prices are low and quality is high, which is exactly what you want in a market visit.
Beyond the seafood stalls, you will find vendors selling local produce, dried fish, native kakanin (rice cakes), and prepared food. The cooked food section operates as an informal canteen, with long tables and a rotating cast of simple dishes — sinigang, kare-kare, lechon baboy — at prices that make you wonder how they stay in business. If you eat nothing else in Ozamiz, eat at the market.