Today being my birthday, my girlfriend suggested we pick up cakes from a Sunday market that she often frequents. We took a jeepney to get to a private development called Eton Centris. If you want to come by Manila’s metro, the station to get off at is Quezon Avenue. From there, it’s a short walk behind Centris Station Mall.
If you’ve been to Bangkok, you would have seen many such public markets where stalls are set up selling kinds of foods alongside clothes and other goods. Well, Sidcor Local Sunday Market is similar but on a smaller scale.
Being really hot during the day, I decided to step out only at around 2pm.
After withdrawing some money, I walked around the area (very posh, mind you). Lots of malls and office buildings.
After that, I went to Carriedo (LRT station) where SM has a clearance mall
I found some great bargains inside. Besides a bunch of in-store brands by SM, they had a few name brands and foreign brands in short supply (maybe export rejects). None the less, I found H&M cargo shorts for ₱400. Definitely export-reject-worthy Rip Curl swimming shorts for ₱200. And then some bermuda shorts for like ₱100 each. Not everything was cheap, but then again, coming from India, I wasn’t planning on buying many clothes from Philippines anyway.
One thing I found funny was just how many sales persons are there to sell you socks. Like, super-aggressive when it comes to shoving socks in your face. Think perfume sales people offering a spray to get you talking to them — but a lot more of them selling packs of socks! High margin socks I presume? 😀