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Category: Iloilo Public Markets

Flowers in Iloilo – Where to buy them.

[ No Comments ] Posted on 01.09.09 under Iloilo City, Iloilo Public Markets, Shopping

Want to buy a boquet of flower for your sweetheart? Head to the stalls at the Iloilo Central Market where you’ll find several vendors along the outside of the market on Rizal Street.  Not in Iloilo do do your own flower shopping.  On our next visit we’ll try to get the phone numbers of some [...]

Grocery/Food Price Inflation 2007-2008, Iloilo City, Philippines

[ No Comments ] Posted on 10.01.08 under Iloilo City, Iloilo Public Markets, Perspectives, Philippine Retirement, Shopping

We live in Iloilo City and keep quite close track of our food expenditures. We had read about soaring food price inflation in the Philippines so we decided to see how much our own food expenditures had risen.

Iloilo Public Markets and Market Days

[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 08.31.08 under Iloilo Public Markets, Shopping

The markets of Iloilo Province are listed below, but first a few comments on why I love to shop at the markets, using the Iloilo Central Market as an example.  The Iloilo Central Market is everything the modern Western supermarket is not.  The Central Market is vast and cavernous, it’s dark, damp and smelly, with [...]