Fish Fruits and More: December 31st of 2021

Happy new year hive friends. How are you all? I wish everyone is in good health and in God's loving hands.

Today, December 31st, the last day of the year, everyone gets excites and gets busy preparing for the new year.
As of writing, I am in my mother on laws house and guarding my sleeping kids from the mosquitoes. Nanay gave us her one and only mosquito net when my husband and I were just newly wed because Ton told he that I cannot sleep well without it..
Here is a little decoration of the place where the family is to celebrate the new year.

Earlier, we had a a family dinner. Everyone brought a dish of his own. We brought cake and buko panda salad. Too bad I have not taken a photo of it before it was gone.

I insisted that the kids should eat kids will eat first becaise it is already 8 in the evening and my sister in law is still cooking rice.

Before we went here, I cought a photo of my husband holding his bag to his body, and it was full of "mani".

I laughed as him because mani sound like money. Some people made ia tradition to make their pockets
and walltes to be full of money during the new year..

I even joked at him that he could make it to be the new traditon because it sounds like money too. By the way, mani in our place it the one that is called peanuts in English.

I caught him listing the ingredients of the dish he wants to have tonight too.

Earlier, I was tagged along by my co worker to go to the market to fetch fish fo lunch in the office. There, I saw many kids of fish being sold.

What he bought was a yellow fin tuna. The meat was being served as kinilaw, a filipino dish, a fish eaten raw like sushi minus the soysauce and rice, but has lots of special spices to make it very delicious.

The head and the bones were cooked as soup.

There are lots of fish in the market but I do not know the names of it.

We psses ad stopped by a fruit stand in the highway too. They explanded their stalls to make room for many fruits because lots of of people buys during new year.

Filipinos copied chinese men in feng shui, and they now believe that preparing 13 kinds of circle fruits in the dining table during the new year will bring luck and prosperity to thier life in the coming year. But as for me, since have my own home and family, I never prepared some bit I am still very blessed, for it is blessing that we need in our life. Those fruits, in my point of view is just made up by merchants just to sell thier goods before the year ends so it will not rot in thier storage.

Anyways, here are the fruits in the stall.

MiXed fruits in a little evaporated milk and overloaded with lots of sugar. This is sold 10 pesos per 200ml cup.

Chicos, I hope I am right. Its my first time to see this kind od fruit. And I wonder how it tastes like.

Guavas wrapped in a cellophane, guavas are sold by piece. Its skin is very delicate form dust and scratches.

Wrinkled and old lemons were sold. 20 dollars each. No one sems to be interested in it.

This lot of mago that was bought by my co worker costs 10 dollar. It costs 3 dollars per kilo. And when we ate this eat this at lunch, it tastes sour.. Chemicals were used to make this ripe to sell just in time for the holiday. .

See that greenish color in the mango?

These grapes looks so good too. Its sold at 6 dollars per kilo. My co worker bought only half.

These wrinkled mangoes were sold at 2 dollars per kilo. Even t3it is wrinkled, still many people buys this and makes it into mango floats, a very delicious dessert, my favourite.

Fists-sized cantaloupe melons. I never asked how much is this.

Good quality lemons sold. 50 dollars per piece.

Red and green apples

Avocado. They are fist-sized too. I wonder if people can eat these after the event.

Kiat kiat these are small oranges and some tastes so sweet when ripe and very sour when it lacks of the ripe.

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Pears. These were sold.5 dollars too. Like eating it. Tastes similar to apples.

Tambis i don't know id some parts of the world has this fruit too. This one tastes very delicious.

Fuji apples. Sold at.1 to.25 per piece depends on the size

Tisa. It has a yellow flesh and some people does not like to eat it.

Mangoteen. Purple in skin but has a white flesh. This is believed to be containing lots of medicinal benefits.

This is the view of some fruits in crates

And these two are the stall owners.

Lanzones and Rambutan.

Watermelons too.

So this is how my last day of 2021 went. Thanks for stopping by and Happy New year to us all.

Its 00:25 here now, and its raining just after the fireworks were done. I am praying this means showers of blessings from above. Looks like our plan of going home is cancelled. Oooh,, and I'm gonna sleep. Without a mosquito net.