MANILA : Putting quality over profit during inflationary times, Manila restaurant manager Ely Cundangan has refused to mess with her signature beef marrow stew - the same amount of onions must go in the pot no matter what.'Our ingredients have become so expensive that we are almost earning nothing. But w
MANILA : Putting quality over profit during inflationary times, Manila restaurant manager Ely Cundangan has refused to mess with her signature beef marrow stew - the same amount of onions must go in the pot no matter what.
Like the rest of the world, the Philippines is having to pay a lot more for energy imports, but it is the steepling prices of staple foodstuffs that has become most hard to stomach. Acknowledging that part of the fault lay with poor planning, Marcos has acted to speed up imports and prices have tumbled from December's highs, but rates in a Manila wet market are still around double the year ago levels.
A bride from Iloilo city became the talk of the town after she walked down the aisle with a bouquet of onions, while one enterprising florist in the capital sold bouquets festooned with onions and chillies for Valentines' Day. It is not just onions. Steep price rises for eggs and sugar have also whacked up the cost of putting food on the table.
And farmers are worried that the belated surge in imports will end up weakening prices just as they take their own onions to market during the February to April harvest season.
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