Recorded June 5, 2007 walking around an oki-oki ukay-ukay (thanks to Marco for the spelling correction) complex in Baguio City, Philippines.
Ukay-Ukay means to rumage and find from a pile, i.e. a used clothing store. Baguio is somewhat of a hub for ukay-ukay, receiving truck- and ship-loads of second-hand and discount clothing from Hong Kong and, primarily, the Western world. Within this one complex are many (indistinguishable) vendors. Prices seen are in Philippine Pesos. 45 Peso = approx. $1 USD.
0:00 – 120 peso for any pair of pants on that rack.
0:30 – Descend to second sub-level
0:37 – This striped-shirt gentleman may be familiar to some
0:40 – Sitting, far right: a vendor for that particular area
0:48 – Far end second exit to some street
0:59 – Ascend to sub-complex III
1:05 – Another vendor, seated
1:17 – Ubiquitos, ukay-sized boxes of, well, more ukay-ukay clothing.
1:21 video created with a Fuji F30. Also trying out ways to improve the quality of my YouTube uploads. After some Googling I’m trying a number of things, in particular these 6 tips for High Quality Youtube Video.
Philippines Ukay-Ukay
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9 Responses to “Philippines Ukay-Ukay”
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Brother Barfy: I assume you are using the woman’s voice and emphasis from the Nutrigrain commercial.
Marco: Dang, thanks so much, Marco. No wonder I couldn’t find anything after an hour of googling for ‘oki-oki’ ‘okay-okay’ and etc. -
masabi mo bang more fashionable yung ukay-ukay?y?
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email me how i own a ukay_ukay business
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can you help connect to direct seller of ukay ukay cause i’m opening one store for ukay please…….please.
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how much now per bale of that ukay ukay? pls pm me
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some people are saying that ukay-ukay in the Philippines started at Baguio City. but i don’t think so… the Word “ukay-ukay” is an exact visayan term of “halukay” or to rummage, so i believe it started somewhere in Cebu or in Mindanao… well, just a thought…
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Nice blog. BTW, I took the liberty of copying your You Tube entry for the Ukay Ukay and post it in my blog . [i hope you dont mind, but if you do, just leave me a comment and I will remove it.]I sited or acknowledged you for the Credits… and added you too in “YOUR Links” (you can check it out.) Thanks again and my best regards.
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magkano po ba salaries nio???
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ukay ukay is really good dto nga sa amin sa monumento parang mga kabuti clng nagsulputan lalo yung ukay2 sa may grand central pag new arrival dami tlagang branded na magaganda….try nyo one time…
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