Click to watch video Felipa Fabon waits outside a local fried chicken restaurant in Manila. Crouching near to feral cats and rubbish bins, she isn't there to meet friends for dinner but to search through the diner's trash bags. “I'm sorting the garbage, looking for 'pagpag',” she says. In Tagalog “pagpag” means the dust you shake off your clothing or carpet, but in Fabon's poverty- stricken world, it means chicken pulled from the trash. Pagpag is the product of a hidden food system for the urban poor that exists on the leftovers of the city's middle class. Read – 'Garbage chicken' a grim staple for Manila's poor

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Living on ‘garbage chicken’ in the Manila slums