Local Venice, Industry and Culture
The city is tagged as the Local Venice, due to year long floods and gradual sinking. The City of Malabon is a place famous for its Pancit Malabon and its predominantly Atlantic ambience. It is also famous for other variety of foods, such as puto sulot, puto bumbong, sapin-sapin, broas, bibingka and the camachile. The culinary delights are abundant in its specialty eateries such as the Nanay’s Pancit Malabon, Rosy’s Pancit Malabon, the Pescadores Restaurant, and the Balsa sa Niugan, a floating restaurant with 350 seats, And also you can find "Steakside" a famous fast food restaurant which serves East meets West cuisine with a local twist using only fresh local ingredients that you can find in Malabon City, located at Concepcion Malabon. It is also known for the Bulungan at Tanong Market, the "bulungan" system or whispered bidding in fish trading.
Other Malabon industries include sugar refinery, patis making, cigar making, fishing and Ilang-ilang trees flower extract production where the distilled perfume is exported. Its most famous festival is the "Pagoda-Caracol", a fluvial procession with street dancing to commemorate the Feast of Our Lady of Immaculate Concepcion every 8 December.
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