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Binan Market freshness

Market duty can start at any part of the day, I used to wonder why does the older peeps tend to wake up early and i mean really early to go to market places, groceries and wet markets. Based on my experience as a Dad fond of going to the wet market and groceries i have came to some important points when it comes to shifting to the palengke mode on status.

1. freshness of food
2. most of the choice stuff are released in the morning
3. the exotics and the rare stashes (e.g. shark meat/skatefish meat) are available
4. morning marketing gives good vibes to the vendors especially if you are one of their first few customers... they believe that you are good luck.... haggling is on easy mode.
5. markets are not that jampacked when you are an early bird.
6. there is a feeling of a good market atmosphere everythings cool but still be careful of pickpockets.

For people in San Antonio Binan Laguna our local wet market tips are the ff:

1. Veggie trucks come it at night time- 10 o' clock trip to the market will give you a good stash of green leafy veggies.... fruits are also delivered at this time... it will be nice to be there by exactly 10.
2. Buy pork, beef, and chicken at 5:30 am exotics are also seen at this time like octopus, shark, skatefish, and good snails for escargot. Papaitan package as well as dinuguan and bopis package are available and is still warm.
3. Whatever you do don't initiate eye contact with beggars.... sometimes there are incidences of budol budol daw.

this is a pic of the local market near the fruit zone (taken from the net)