the side street
the curtain shop
the flower shop
the back street
the wholesale thingie is big time
baclaran - he thot was just the strip along roxas blvd that had a lot of makeshift stalls and pushcarts, and a row of shops and car parks that's manned by the self-employed carpark attendants as in any other public places in the philippines.
hardly could he imagined it's side streets are where most of the business are done.
they went looking to custom-make roman curtains. the day was terribly hot in one of those side-streets where they sold evrything from cloth materials, to toys to garden flowers....
luckily the curtain shop was airconned, so spending an hour there to pick out the material and outline the desing and setting eth right price was quite an enjoyable thing to do.
4 days later they went baclaran again. this time to buy some singlets; not any type of singlet, but the ones with holes, for nite-wear. he had been looking for them high an dlow all over manila, the malls, small and big, the shopss, the street stalls, but they were as if some extinct commodity, never being found existing....then somebody said, baclaran should have them.
and ended up he found them in bagpi(baclaran association of grament producers inc), a building housing various stalls selling different types of clothings. they sell by the half dozens - they are actually whole-salers(similar to many of the malls in the area) and it's situated at the other end of the side streets. and mind you, this street is full of shops, street vendors, malls and human and street traffic.
and you think that's all for baclaran. no.... many years he visited the wet market, which was like the one in tekka.... and he also knew there were more sho[s and stalls and malls there...... you must spend two days to see them all.
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