Saturday is our household's regular-scheduled trip to the wet market, where we buy meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, and assorted cooked food and snacks.
The market we always go to is a cooperative's weekend market project located just 5 minutes from our home and village. Stuff here is a bit more pricey, but we really prefer it here.
For most of our vegetables, we get them at a different venue known as a "bagsakan," a marketplace where veggies from the highlands are delivered in bulk.
Below is a pic of the cooperative's main meat seller.
This banana store is where we buy what is known as the "latundan" variety.
A stray street cat! Very appropriate for the Caturday community since I got this accidental shot on our Saturday trip.
The fish varieties are our country is amazing. Shown here are just a minuscule representation of the richness and abundance of our nation's fishes.
Chicken is a must in our household!
Eggs are essential for us as well! We buy regular and salted eggs. We also buy hopia here, both the monggo and pork varieties.
The egg and hopia seller also sells rice. We usually buy the 44-peso Angelica variety. Try to find where it is in the pic.
Bought some sausages from this new seller. Got to try it out later and it was good, even if expensive.
Below is the pancit (noodles) and lumpia (vegetable rolls) seller. The very kind lady (the one in green) who runs the store always interacts with us with a genuine smile.
The "kakanin" or rice cake seller is where we buy puto, kutchinta, suman, biko, sapin-sapin, and tikoy rolls.
These are two varieties of kutchinta: the most widely known orange kutchinta and a black kutchinta. The dip is made of yema.
There is also a barbecue seller, where we get chicken kebab and pig ear and cheek barbecues. We also sometimes buy crispy tawilis (sardine-like fish fried to a crunchy crisp), lechon paksiw (pork in vinegar and liver sauce), dinuguan (pork in blood stew), relleno crab, calamansi (Philippine lemon) juice, grilled hito (catfish), and more from the same seller.
Pancit bato, I was told, originated from a place called Bato in the Bicol region.
Pure coconut juice is also always a must. Good flush for the kidneys.
As previously mentioned, we get most of our vegetables from a different place. Below are some varieties we buy.
Once we returned home, it was time to eat the pancit and kebab.
Being blessed with abundant food makes me very grateful. Happy to be alive!