I miss my little Nate. They’re supposed to visit me today but my daughter got sick so I have to wait for another week before I get to see my “apo”. I am looking forward to having him around again and see what he has learned and accomplished in a month. He is almost six months old now, time flies!
Last Wednesday, Josef and I went to Pasig City market just to buy fruits. It was his day-off so what better way to spend the early morning but to visit a place that I haven’t seen for so many years? I’ve been told by some friends that the price of fruits there are really cheap. The place is where fresh produce coming from the provinces are sold wholesale and by the kilo. I was simply awed by the variety of fruits they have, all housed in a large complex that used to be just a few stalls ten, fifteen years ago. Where can you find a kilo of sineguelas at only P20? They had sacks and sacks of it lining up several stores.The other day, I asked some vendors here in our place how much a kilo of it costs and I was surprised that they were selling it at P60/kilo. One large pineapple that sells around P75 to P80 a piece in our place costs only P50 in Pasig. Green and ripe mangoes are sold by the sacks and crates too. Would you believe Indian mangoes are at P10/kilo? As we just took a commute to the place, I didn’t buy much except these, all for the price of P400, a half kilo of fresh peanuts, a kilo of sweet potato, sweet corn and a large watermelon included.
I will definitely come back here if only to buy more sineguelas and fresh pineapples. I haven’t explored the place yet. There are other fruits on display like bananas (all kinds, I think), durian (which I don’t eat). Think summer, think fruits!
I don’t like durian either. That is quite a hassle to carry all those heavy produce but it is nice to know that some places are very affordable. I thought Monumento is the “bagsakan”? I particularly miss sineguelas. We used to buy them from our neighbors who got trees and if we are lucky, we could even climb the trees with them so we really could pick the plump and juicy ones.
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It is quite easy to go to the place because it is just a 20-minute jeepney ride from where we live. I love sineguelas and I miss duhat. There is a duhat tree planted by our neighbor here in the subdivision but you can’t climb it the way you do in the province because it is so tall but there are purple fruits showing in each branch.
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