Public Market

Rice and eggs. Pretty important foods

Baler is a tiny town. There are no real grocery stores or supermarkets, all the shopping is done at the public market. There are two markets here in Baler, the New Public market and the so fittingly, Old Public Market. At the new public market there are two different buildings, the wet and the dry. The dry section has all the rice, noodles, and other dried goods. They also sell clothing, pots and pans, paper, and other odds and ends. It is like a ghetto WalMart (wait can WalMart actually be more ghetto??) The wet market is where all the fun stuff is, like cow heads. No joke, a few days ago I actually saw an alabaster cow head just sitting on top of one of the counter tops. I so badly wanted to take a photo but I didn't have my camera. When I returned a few days later to help with some shopping I brought my camera but somebody must have bought the cow head because it was nowhere to be found. Now I am super curious as to how one cooks a cow head. Maybe it is only good for the brain. I don't know. Even there was no cow head, I took pictures of other mouth watering pieces of meat (jokes, actually not mouth watering– at least to me!) All the vendors got really photogenic when they saw my camera, they kept waving me over and asked me to take pictures of them and their produce.

The wet market

nom noms

pigs feet

chicken heads and feet

the fish were so fresh they were still flopping