Migrants in the City
I thought it would be interesting to talk and show pictures
of some of the oriental grocery markets in the valley. Some of these
stores are less than a mile apart from each other and they are all
located on the same street, which is Dunlap. I made a trip to the most
popular one located on 35th Avenue and Dunlap call Manila
Market. What’s amazing about this place is that there are so many
immigrants from all parts of the world that shop there, not only
immigrants from Asia. The Manila Market offers of so many different
types of oriental spices, seasonings and big bags of rice, which you can
not find anywhere else except in an oriental market. The oriental
market is not the only place for shopping it also provides a job
opportunity for immigrants. But most importantly, I chatted with one
shopper who had asked me where the soy sauce was and we started
chatting. I asked he
r why she likes to shop here. She said that the
obvious reason was because it had everything that she needed to cook
Filipino food, but the real reason was that she felt comfortable
shopping there because the owners are from the same country, the
Philippine. If she has any questions she can communicate with them in
tagalong, which is a native language in the Philippine. So with this
experience I have come to the conclusion that, even though people
migrate to the United States they never forget about the food of their
homelands.