Chinatown Ongpin

I've been lsiving in Chinatown for almost 2 decades now. Not to mention that I have memorized every single store located along the vicinity, but morpeso of how things have evolved in it...
The one thing that has not changed since I came to live here was Masuki, sinpce the 1980s up to now, the ambience is still the same. Not to mention their waiters too! Their waiters have been working there for more than 2 decades now, that's what they told me...
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Hmm... Shopper's Mart...Chinatown's biggest grocery...Before, they used to rent the place. But now, they were able to buy the whole building where the groery is located...and a little tidbit, the family of the son of the owner died during the Tsunami in Thailand...

Bee Tin Grocery, I LOVE THIS STORE SO MUCH! Only this store in Chinatown offers great Champoys and peanuts! I admire the owner, how he loves her wife so much (their both in thier 70s now I guess) and how he was able to manage their used to be little grocery store into a big one. Plus, there were able to buy the whole building of where their grocery is located...and buy houses and lots in Greenhills...Ü

Anson's appliance shop isn't very noticeable in Ongpin. But, if I'm not mistaken, the owner is indeed a no read no write person who strived his best to success. He must be very rich to be able to build branches in Makati and Ortigas (across Podium)...not bad...

These are just some of the things that I love in Ongpin. But, if there are likes, there are also dislikes...I hate copycat stores who steal other's name just to be popular...
Eng Bee Tin, I hate how they tried to copy Bee Tin Grocery's name just to be popular right away. A lot of people mistake them to be of the same owner.
Eng Bee Tin must be the worst shop in Ongpin based on my experience, they act so corteous in giving Tikoys during chinese new year, and luckily I was one of them who got it for free. So my friends who were also able to get and I were so thankful to them. Later, when I got home, my mom told me that the Tikoy is already spoiled! So I tried texting my friend if hers was also spoiled, she said her dad told her that too! And our other friends also encountered the same! So, it is not by accident that the Tikoy got spoiled coz all of our Tikoys were already spoiled even before it was cooked! And, a little tidbit too, their hopia can last for up to a month, what the fuck! They must be adding formalin to preserve it hahaha! An original hopia would spoil in less than 5 days.
I know that this revelation would shock a lot of Filipinos but, no Chinese are buying hopias and tikoys in Eng Bee Tin because they doubt on the ingredients plus the price! Their hopias and tikoys are much more expensive compared to others. For example, a normal hopia costs P20, they sell it for P35. A small tikoy costs P25, they sell it for P35. see the difference?
Only Filipinos buy there because that's the only store they know because only Eng Bee Tin advertises on television... poor them =(