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Would you eat this? It’s called pagpag. Food salvaged from rubbish tips in the Philippines. It’s cooked, then sold in nearby poor communities. We spent one evening following a bag of meat from the rubbish dump to the dinner table. 

4 a.m.. “Happyland” rubbish dump, Manila.

Stage 1: Collection

Rubbish from fast food chains across Manila is delivered to the dump.

Renato Navarro Donde, pagpag collector: I have been doing this job for five months now. I started to work at 12 noon and I’m still working at this hour. My boss gives me around six dollars a week after he has sold the pagpag. Somehow it’s okay because it helps with house expenses, rice and other food.

A bag of pagpag meat sells for around 50 cents. This bag is sold to restaurant owner Norberto Lucion. 

Stage 2: Cooking

6 a.m. I have to go to the market to buy ingredients like garlic, onions. 

8 a.m. Norberto’s restaurant

Before I cook it, I remove any bones, to make sure that only the meat goes into the actual food. Once the meat is separated from the bones, I wash. After washing, the sauce is simmering in the pan. Then I mix it all up. One bowl costs 20 cents.

Stage 3: Eating

Nonoy Morallos, ice delivery man: I eat pagpag because it is tasty.It’s really good to eat. This particular vendon makes clean pagpag that’s why more people buy from here. It’s about having a strong stomach. Us here? We’re used to it.