Listed under specials, the dish had two prices: “regular,” and “with onions.”
Onions, rather than romance, had dominated the couple’s conversation leading up to this date. On two separate weeks in December, the husband had gone to Thailand on business, and she had asked only that he bring home at least 2 kilos of onions. At only 45 baht a kilo , they were a bargain at a time when local markets were selling red onions for as much as P600 and white onions for P700 a kilo.
As of Thursday, major public markets and roadside stalls were selling onions at around P500 a kilo. At least two stalls were offering the bulbs at only P300 a kilo, but that’s because the produce were from an older stock procured when the prices were still much lower. But knowing that her customers like their pancit best served with onions, she chose not to deny them this, well, culinary luxury.
Speaking at the Laging Handa briefing, the DA spokesperson, Assistant Secretary Rex Estoperez, said he recently visited an onion farm and learned from local farmers that they had buyers willing and even “competing” to buy their harvests at more than P300 a kilo. However, the Jan. 5 edition of the DA’s Bantay Presyo, its daily price monitor for key agri-fishery commodities in Metro Manila, placed the price of local red onions at P280 to P650 per kilo.
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