The weather yesterday was too perfect to be wasted indoors. There’s some sun but it was mostly cloudy and chilly. With nothing major planned that day, AJ and I decided to head to the Salcedo Saturday Market to finally check it out.
Yeah, we live in Makati but have never actually been to this side of the city. I guess the address intimated me so much (hehe!) but it turned out to be a friendly place pala – with lots of cooked food, fresh produce and imported grocery items being sold at reasonable prices. It’s part Mercato Centrale and part Rustan’s Supermarket, judging from the food stuff available there.
Here are some of the interesting ones I saw:
There are non-food items being sold too (and which I almost bought – check out the bag below):
Ang hirap lang pag ganitong maraming choices, ang hirap din pumili. For our lunch, we bought the following after observing which stalls attracted the most number of shoppers: Stanford and Shaw’s old-fashioned ginger ale (that’s so refreshing), Monster Burger’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese and Bacon and Manvy’s Stir-Fried Seafood Noodles (the noodles are made from Chinese spinach).
It’s a good thing we were allowed to bring our food inside the community park located just beside the market. It was such a beautiful day to be in the park, and had I known that the weather will be this great, I would’ve brought my book with me hehe.
Before heading home, we stopped by Commune (which is a walking distance from the Salcedo park) for their Cafe Latte art coffee. I don’t know how AJ did it, but he finished this coffee with the cat’s milk foam face still intact!
Salcedo Saturday Market | Jaime C. Velasquez Park, Salcedo Village, Makati, Metro Manila
Commune Cafe | Liberty Plaza, 102 H.V. Dela Costa Street, Salcedo Village, Makati City | twitter: @CommunePH
Weekend markets are love! Kilala ko yang queso de bola cheese spread, ah! The resto that sells it is where I work part-time. Hehe. You should try our products on your next visit. Sarap yan pati yung Salsa Monja. Ang alam ko may free taste kami, do have a taste next time you go there. 🙂
P.S. I like the bag, nice print and material! 🙂
It’s fun to take photos during weekend markets. I usually go to take photos and end up not buying anything LOL 😀
Btw, if you’re interested I’m giving away 6 3D pop-out cards for my Pre-Valentines Day giveaway. Hope you check it out and join too. –> http://bit.ly/1KVfSLw
Thanks!
Eleigh
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“I guess the address intimated me so much”
True, I feel the same. Haha Favorite ko yung Monster Burger, back when I go to Banchetto pa. I was about to ask, may dining area ba sila? Turns out, it’s a common problem in food markets. If may tables and chairs, most of the time naman kulang. Nevertheless, okay lang din basta masarap ang food.