Known as Marikina's Menudo. Waknatoy is prepared the way a menudo is cooked but with additional ingredients like vienna sausage and pickles. The story behind the name of this popular dish is that during the old days, when chinese merchants dined in restaurants, they were always offered this ubiquitous dish. It came to a pint that these Chinese merchants no longer wanted the dish and they refused it by saying "Ito na naman? wak na toy!" (Huwag na toy!)
This Marikina-style meatloaf is made with pork, hard-boiled eggs, red bell pepper strips and chorizo and is usually cooked using a llanera, an oval baking pan, giving the dish its oval shape.
Laoya is another unique dish in Marikina that can be compared with the typical Filipino dish nilagang baka, except for the addition of luya (ginger), garlic and sweet potatoes (kamote).
This dish is cooked by adding those ingredients in the broth and are boiled altogether with the beef, baguio beans, pepper, and cabbage. Some food lovers would be confused by Laoya's taste as it is similar to nilagang baka or chicken tinola with beef as the main ingredient instead of chicken.