Tinapay Maker

Overview

Tinapay Maker is a souvenirs and delicacies shop in Barangay Taloto, Tagbilaran City, listed in the BPTO provincial tourist-attraction inventory under the Shopping / Souvenirs and Delicacies category. Tinapay is the Filipino/Cebuano word for bread — the name suggests the shop specializes in locally made bread products as take-home goods.

This entry refers to Cecilia’s Tinapay Crisp, run by Cecilia Oroc (64 as of 2025), with the help of her youngest child, Faith Marie, a Food Technology student. The baking tradition traces back to Cecilia’s grandmother, Nieves Eya, who began making tinapay crisp after World War II; the craft passed through Cecilia’s mother, Sofronia Callenero, to Cecilia, who is reported as the last remaining traditional maker of this treat in the city.

Location

Barangay Taloto, Tagbilaran City, Bohol. Tagbilaran is the provincial capital and main arrival point for Bohol. The operation is based at Cecilia’s home — a small workspace at the back of the house with a roadside store display. A precise street address isn’t publicly listed; as a home-based operation, it’s best located by asking around Taloto rather than expecting a signposted storefront.

Getting There

Tagbilaran City is the main gateway to Bohol — accessible by ferry from Cebu and other Visayan ports, and by air via Tagbilaran Airport. Barangay Taloto is within Tagbilaran City limits.

• The exact spot within Barangay Taloto isn’t pinned down here; ask locally or check the barangay hall for directions, since this is a home operation rather than a mapped storefront.
• Tricycle from the city center is the standard short-distance transport within Tagbilaran

Practical Info

• Products: tinapay crisp (a thin, crispy, sugar-coated biscuit), old-fashioned cookies, and torta (by special order)
• Production: made entirely by hand — dough of flour, pork lard, and margarine prepared on a wooden table, then baked in a pugon (improvised wood-fired oven)
• Volume: roughly 100 packs sold per week under normal conditions, doubling during the May fiesta season (Saulog)
• Status: still operating as of the source article’s June 2025 publication date
• Operating hours and price range aren’t confirmed here, and whether the packaging travels well in checked luggage isn’t documented either — worth asking Cecilia’s stall directly, especially if buying it as pasalubong to carry home

What to Expect

A small, home-based traditional bakery rather than a storefront — visitors should expect a modest roadside display rather than a retail shop. The tinapay crisp is a decades-old handmade product using a wood-fired oven, positioned as a Bohol pasalubong (homecoming gift) item alongside other local delicacies such as calamay, dried fish, and peanut candies commonly sold by shops in this BPTO category.

Notes

• Nearby in Tagbilaran City: Dalareich Chocolate House (another delicacies shop in the same municipality), Manga Public Market
• Cecilia is reported as the last remaining traditional tinapay-crisp maker still operating in Tagbilaran City using the original manual, wood-fired method.
• The doubling of output during the May fiesta season lines up with the city’s Saulog festival, which runs from March through early May and culminates on May 1 — a period when demand for pasalubong-style treats rises across Tagbilaran’s home-based bakeries, not just at Cecilia’s stall. A pugon-fired operation of this kind also runs on firewood rather than gas or electricity, a cost structure and fuel-sourcing pattern shared by most of the last remaining traditional bakeries of this type on the island, and one reason the craft is increasingly rare as fewer households take it up.
• Bohol’s Tinapay crisp: A decades-old homemade treat, accessed 2026-07-17.