pamilihan ng bayan

view from quiapo bridge
originally uploaded by Q'em-Iqal to flickr.com

if you haven't been to the philippines, here's their version of
the farmer's market. it's usually open before dawn.

they have live fish, live chickens and sometimes live dogs (they're scrounging for a meal too). you'll find fresh vegetables and expensive fruits. whenever i go there, the fruits they're offering always seem so expensive. people usually make $5 to $10 a day and an apple is a $1?

and we just take apples here for granted, spoiling away in our fruit baskets.

this reminds me... once, i rode around the palengke with my uncle. we bought a couple bags of freshly baked pandesal. brought them home and, with the early morning elders, shared the tradition of dipping pandesal into sweet instant coffee while the sun came up.

starbucks can't beat that.