When most of the people go to church on a sunday, others would head towards SIDCOR. Yes, this is a tiangge type market located inside the Lung Center complex in Quezon City. Its amazing people flock to the area rain or shine, young and old alike. Once you have started going there, you can't help but visiting the place every Sunday, probably because of its open- flea-market type setting that provides interesting selection of goods and stuff not commonly seen in our traditional market and supermarket like the tapang usa, sinaing/ginatang tulingan, bagnet & others. Prices seem cheaper especially if you buy it from your "sukis" like Laura , the vendor of Baguio vegetables and Yacon rootcrops. When other
stalls are selling the lettuce at 80 to 120, she is selling it at 50 to 60/ kl only with matching free pcs of sayote and raddish, esp near the closing time, it ends at 2 PM. She is located at the left hand side of the market near the plants area.Korean shoes from "Au" as we call her are cheaper by 20 to 50 pesos than malls or greenhills. She also sells blouses & stuff from HK and BK although in a limited selection only.
The best bet for Vigan products like bagnet, longganisa, native sibuyas, bamboo shoots, native eggplant and garlic are sold by Dayoan's. They also cook Vigan type pinakbet but you have to be early to catch up with it because they only cook small portions only. I tested one time at 20 pesos/ order and it was really good because it has no oil, no meat and all vegetables , perhaps with a local fish bagoong ..very healthy food...
They were also the first to introduce the Vigan empanadas that contain shredded papaya and ground beef topped with egg and deep fried in oil and was a hit..The next few months, another enterprising vendor did the same thing and now competes with her. you know how filipinos are... Her sukis nevertheless knows best..
