A traditional Philippine peasant dish of salted fish. Carlos’s mother often peddles it in the village markets.
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Chapter 4
...with her trading business. Each morning, they wake up and fill an earthen jar with boggoong, or salted fish. They then peddle the fish to peasants in the villages in exchange...
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