In many places residents set out nine or more viands for the Hungry Ghosts. This is done in corridors outside unit doors or on street corners, to be disposed of by cleaners the following morning. This practice is inconvenient in Metro Manila due to dust, intermittent rain, stray cats and dogs, and even rats.

Just set up the following inside your gate or outside your front door:

--A glass canister with a lid containing nine pieces of candy

--A glass of drinking water covered with a saucer

--Two lit joss sticks in an incense burner

--A lit vigil candle in a secure, glass holder

--You may add fresh flowers in a vase

Pour the water onto the street the following morning.

It is safe to eat the candy or give it away to street children.