Various stalls under blue tents rose at the plaza sandwiched by towering commercial buildings and the city hall with the facades having the same color and the St. Joseph Cathedral.
On sale are vegetables like tomatoes and eggplants, fruits like mangoes and bananas, cookies particularly those made from araro, chicharon prepared from mushrooms, banana chips, bagoong paste, buko pie and cashew nuts.
Present like in every trade fair in Bataan are smoked and dried fish.
There are bottled atsara, bignay wine, vinegar from palm and bread like empanada. Also available are rubber slippers made from tires of trucks, shirts, shorts, homemade pillows, decorative items, among some others.
The items sold at affordable prices are products from the towns of Dinalupihan, Hermosa, Orani, Samal, Abucay, Pilar, Orion, Limay, Mariveles, Bagac and Morong and the City of Balanga.
The trade fair is open until April 10. There will be a foot parade, parade of floats and a program that will give tribute to heroes on April 8, Thursday.
The observance of Araw ng Kagitingan culminates on Friday at a program at the Shrine of Valor in Mount Samat in Pilar, Bataan where Pres. Aquino is expected to attend as guest of honor and speaker.
Bataan, defended by weakening combined American and Filipino forces, fell to the superior Japanese Imperial Army on April 9, 1942.
