Hospital visit.
I was about to heat water for the second batch of pasta when Mond approached me and asked help to bring Leo to the hospital. Mond and Leo are my flatmates, and Leo had been ill all afternoon. Less than...
View ArticleStreet food na pina-sosyal.
Macy contacted me and asked for a tarot reading last Friday. We finished around midnight and she offered to drive Bern and I home. I suggested we have a night cap first at Lime 88, which was really...
View ArticleStinky shirt days.
I don’t like how my shirt smells. It’s not that unpleasant but it has this noticeably sharp, musky scent, like I spent the entire day outdoors and had been sweating for hours. Except I haven’t worn it...
View ArticleThe magic siopao dream.
This was a dream I had yesterday afternoon. While walking along a street, I sent a tweet through my phone: I want siopao. It was around dusk. The street had four lanes without an island, lined with...
View ArticlePastry food trip at the Mandaluyong city hall complex.
Even when we’re practically broke last Sunday, Bern and I still found time to explore the food market in the Mandaluyong city hall complex. The city hall always sets up a flea market around Maysilo...
View ArticleThe Great Tinapa Hunt adventure of Mandaluyong (and a recipe for tinapa and...
Since I will be working on New Year’s Day, I promised the co-workers that I will be bringing some pasta for a little post-New Year celebration. I decided I’ll cook some tinapa pesto spaghetti. Tinapa...
View Article#30DayWritingChallenge: The best meal of my life.
Day Twenty-Three: The best meal of my life. It is a common joke among former residents of the Chairless Apartment that whenever we start cooking pasta, it means we are running low on money. Normally...
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