Notable Edibles #1 – Chic-Boy’s Chicharon Bulaklak
Chic-Boy’s Chicharon Bulaklak
It’s almost 3:30 p.m. and it’s a good time for a snack. One of the possible choices is chicharon bulaklak/flower cracklings (Ohh, has a nice ring to it, no? Let me say that aloud to myself again, flower cracklings. Whoo-hoo. =b) and where do they have a scrumptious plate of these? One of the places I could recommend is Chic-Boy.
Say flower cracklings! I’m amused. With ginisang kangkong sa bawang photo bomb.
They’ve got branches in Bokawkan Road, Bonifacio Street corner Dagohoy Street and Session Road … so you can see it’s pretty easy for you to come by chicharon when you start craving for it. Chic-Boy’s is sold for P130 a plate. They also serve this with a zingy bowl of vinegar. [It’s their own special mix, I believe and what a mix it is. They sometimes give this out sparingly, (it’s different from the one in the bottles on the table) but you can always ask for a little more.] What I especially like about these meat blossoms is that, they keep the shape of these intact (mostly *hihi).
Okay, appreciation time over, let’s start dipping and munching. (“,)
Forecast at Casa Pizzeria: A Downpour of Pizza with A Chance of Pasta
It’s been said (and joked about) that being a weatherman is probably the best job that one could ever have. Their justification: “It’s the only job you can keep while being wrong 80% of the time.”
Speaking of weather, we’ve been having some really strange and unpredictable ones of late and when it’s monsoon-y one day, it’s warm (even scorching hot *shyeew) and fine and dandy on another. Today (06/17/2013), we’ve got a tropical depression in the Philippine area of responsibility and thank the gods, it’s not rearing its ugly head yet. (Hope it just fizzles out … hate stormy weather =b).
Inside the little casa … Room 306 De Leon Building is not necessarily on the “third” floor. Enter the building from the Session Road entrance, the casa is the door on the right before you get to Western Union. (No flights of stairs to climb.)
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Walking on the Gustatory Memory Lane at Ebai’s Cafe and Pastry
As a kid, one of the meals that was regularly served in our home for lunch/dinner (most of the time it was lunch AND dinner =b) was dinengdeng, pinakbet and viands that had something to do with bagoong. Since these dishes were chock-full of veggies, I didn’t really like them then. Eew, saluyot! (I suppose I went through that normal phase of childhood where vegetables were the enemy at meal time. I always felt like I could eat hotdogs, chicken, spaghetti, chocolates, ice cream and cake every meal of every day of my life. That’s six meals covered … and repeat. *snicker snicker)
There really wasn’t any choice when the mealtime bell rang and the plate laid out in front of me had a mountainous pile of rice and viand. As a coping mechanism, my brother and I would ‘play’ with our food imagining it to be other things just so we could finish it. (No one leaves the table without a clean plate in our house. That’s a strict rule. Just ask my brother who sat there … sleepily… for hours until he finished. Before he knew it, it’s dinner time! Say it like Yzma from Emperor’s New Groove =D)
The kids who didn’t like their veggies. =))
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X Marks the Spot for Good Baguio Foods 