market , market.

.It's a "long weekend" because of the Catholic holiday. 

(Long weekend meaning, a holiday date conveniently set on a monday or a friday of the week making the no-work weekend 3 days or so.)

The whole family went along with the mother superior to the market. There's a town next to ours  whose market day s falls on a saturday. 

This is what we found:

stalls along facing the street. the market was developed in such a way that permanent stalls are located outside, like a fortress to the open air-market inside which on non-market days serve as, simply, courtyards.

Itinerant vendors selling children's dresses. they set their wares along the pedestrian walkways.  

things rubber. The one with wooden handle is a rubber slingshot. 

handmade baskets made of bamboo.

mobile jewelry vendors. most are silver-plated. My grandmother once bought me a "fancy" earring from one of these vendors. my earlobe scarred and got infected by the "fancy" chemicals they used for gold-plating. I started hating jewelries after that. 

more itinerant wares.

local potters selling cooking wares made from clay.

clay pots. people in rural areas still use them, i guess. green living. Now we just use them to store salt.

meat vendors at the meat section. the cows and pigs are usually slaughtered the night before. 

Courtyard vending.

neice and sister. they came to buy the cooking clay wares. when we were young we used to role play using the clay pots. we cooked with real vegetables and real fire and used the kiddie sized claywares. that's how we made friends with kids in the neighborhood.

nails.

ukay ukay stalls. 

batchoy store. 

batchoy store and the vinyls on the wall.

hello, xanadu vinyl!

and a sign you will never find in any established city restaurants.

batchoy eaters.

FIN.