Morning traffic rattles through the slum district of Payatas in Quezon City, just north of Metro Manila. It is 9am but over 30 degrees Celsius and climbing. A truck pulls over and workers unload the ...

Manila, Apr 24 (EFE).- With food prices rising relentlessly, Manila’s poorest residents are increasingly resorting to eating “pagpag”, a stew cooked with scraps of meat and bones scavenged from ...

Thousands of hungry families living in slums in the Philippines are surviving on what is locally known as pagpag, a dish made from discarded restaurant food. Scavenged from garbage bins and collection ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. A former construction worker in Arkong Bato, Valenzuela City, has been rummaging through leftover vegetables and meat ...

For the uninitiated, pagpag is a common staple food for people living in the slums. It’s mostly leftovers from fast food chains and other restaurants which are sorted and cleaned (hence the name ...