Puerto Princesa's shopping is craft, not couture: buri-and-pandan weavers working at their looms, cashew and wild-honey stalls in the Malvar Street market, gallery cafés along the National Highway, and three cool malls for when the heat wins.
Palawan's largest wet-and-dry market sprawls along Malvar Street. Dry-goods rows sell raw and roasted cashews (₱350-450/kilo), dried danggit, coconut vinegar, rattan baskets and woven bayong bags. Stalls run 05:00-18:00.
A barefoot bamboo house on Rizal Avenue that doubles as a folk-art gallery: driftwood carvings, shell mobiles, painted capiz panels and Palaweño paintings fill every wall, many with price tags. Lunch is set seafood platters.
A working weaving house on the National Highway in San Manuel where women weave buri, pandan and tikog into placemats, coasters, bags and table runners on wooden looms. You can try the loom yourself before buying.
Puerto Princesa's seafront promenade fills after sunset with tiangge tables and food carts: shell jewellery, sarongs, Palawan-print shirts, phone-strap trinkets, plus grilled squid and halo-halo from the kiosk row.
Part gallery, part garden café on the National Highway, built from bamboo and native hardwood. Rotating shows by Palawan artists, plus a shop corner of ceramics, indigenous Palaw'an beadwork, batik and handmade paper journals.
Rizal Avenue coffee bar roasting Palawan-grown liberica and robusta from Brooke's Point and Rizal municipality. Whole beans and ground packs sold over the counter alongside brunch plates and single-origin pour-overs.
The city's polished mall on the National Highway: Philippine high-street labels, Kultura for local textiles and capiz homeware, a pearl counter with South Sea and freshwater strands, plus a supermarket for pasalubong boxes.
A small craft brewery on Manalo Street Extension pouring Ubud Sunrise-style ales brewed with Palawan honey and calamansi. The taproom sells bottles, growlers, branded shirts and glassware to take away.
A hilltop bakery-garden complex off Mitra Road in Santa Monica, famous for hopia, piaya and ube crinkles boxed for travel. Adjacent stalls stock dried mangoes, cashew brittle and Palawan-print totes; opens 06:00.
The Manalo Street shopfront of NATRIPAL, the federation of Palawan indigenous peoples' organisations. Raw wild forest honey harvested by Batak and Tagbanua gatherers, sold in glass bottles, plus almaciga resin and rattan craft.
The newest and largest mall, on the National Highway in San Manuel. Air-conditioned refuge with department-store basics, luggage and dry bags for island trips, a Palawan pasalubong section and a full SM Supermarket.
The run of souvenir shops between the city centre and Puerto Princesa airport: shelf after shelf of vacuum-packed cashews, dried mango, bagoong, keychains, shell lamps and Palawan shirts, most open until 20:00.