the weekend has been brutally filled with activities that i couldn't even keep up. yesterday, it was really fun, though because i got to check an item in my bucket list. for the first time in my ENTIRE life, i got to go and have a food trip in binondo. :)
now, this if funny given that i have been staying in manila for 12 expletive-ing years. isang kandirit na lang, binondo na...but i never got the chance to go there. correction. i never made the time to go there! good thing that madame Q one day sent me an SMS asking if we could go to binondo. as it this is the NEW me and there is the 2013 goal of sucking the marrow out of life (as Robin Williams so beatifully put it in dead poet's society), i replied with a resounding yes.
the day before the trip, i messaged the madame asking if the trip would push through. as luck would have it, she was staying over at frichmond's (due to anay alert, which is another story all together). frichmond and madame talked about the trip. madame Q frantically googled different binondo blogs and google mapped her way. hence, our itinerary was set. :)
we began with our walk to ongpin street and viewing of the binondo church. afterward, we walked and walked and walked, ate our heart away, filled our tummies with dimsum, dumplings, mami, friend siopao, frog legs, oyster cakes, milk tea and soup number five.
i felt like andrew zimmer or anthony bourdain. imagine living their lives and all their calories!
how ever, our food reviews were hardly as eloquent as theirs. hehehehe.
madame q: (flicking her lips) charap!
frichmond: ang mura talaga ng dumplings. i mean, compared to hapchang! (malta!)
joctor jafags: bili pa tayo ng fried siopao!
madam q: may vetsin kaya itong frog legs? i feel a migraine coming on!
SIU: i think i need a walis. kalbo na ang walis namin sa bahay. talk about domesticated!
madame q: ang sarap ng siomai noh? buong buo ang karne, punong-puno!
SIU: (to waitress) excuse me, napanood po namin sa tv na itong soup number five ay...um...bayag ng baka. nasan na po ang bayag?
here's to more spontaneous food trips. we missed you SAFM and BOTD.
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natawa ako for more sa behind the scenes conversation na: "ANG MUMURA NG STUFF! BUMILI PA NGA AKO NG WALIS TAMBO! OMG NAIWAN KO SA TAXI ANG WALIS TAMBO!" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteahahaha. sino naman ang source ng back story? and yes, naiwan ko ang walis tambo. buti na lang pag uwi ko ay bumili pala si ate at ang tatay ko. talk about telepathy. either than or sobrang nakakaawa na talaga ang walis namin.
ReplyDeleteang source ng backstory ay ikaw. di ba nag-usap tayo sa phone ahahahhah
ReplyDeletehahaha. talk about alzheimer's! hindi mo ba ako bibigyan ng kopya ng nailathala mong aklat? na may autograph?
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