The district of Malate-Ermita two boroughs adjacent to the walled city of Intramuros Manila was where I spent a good part of my youth in during the late 70s to late 90s. The fortunes of these twin neighborhoods would take different trajectories. Malate became sort of a hipster place to live in for a time, while Ermita retained a lot of quaint and interesting places that slipped beneath the radar of the trendy-set.
