Archive for the ‘food’ tag
Back in the fields of Bulacan
Arrived a little before 9PM on Thursday, and the best pasalubong I could bring home was a massive headache. Well, ok, I brought some cheap foodstuff home for a little over 50 kwai to disperse.
My first pinoy meal came in the guise of my fave Jollibee combo: the chickenjoy and spag meal + extra rice. This was taken 20 hours short of my last meal -the shrimp-and-something plane edibles- since I expected to be taken to another physical exam yesterday. Wrong mistake.
As for now, I’d prefer to stay in dont-spend-anything mode, since RMB seems to be an unknown currency for money exchange in the local banks, even HSBC. Any readers (assuming anyone would actively read my crap) who can offer suggestions over this dilemma?
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My pre-breakfast meal (?) before going back to Manila. I was finally able to tell my ShangDong Style Mixed Grain Pancake suki my ideal blend of spices: some chili, less of the usual strong green herb (wansoy?). The purchase and food customization was all done via common-sense sign language.
Lastly, head on over to my Flickr account for more Shanghai photos.
Eating Cheap in Dongbo 2/Some Movie Talk
The weekend felt short, and concluded with a sad note that the two girls in the apartment will be leaving, to make room for the all-male abode. There wasn’t any semblance of the standard three-square-meals at all, I think I still have a bellyful of junk (mixed with Suntory-with-Pepsi on Saturday). The waking hours was mainly spent on finishing -unsuccessfully- the first two seasons of Nip/Tuck, which I’d always see neatly in the bangketa DVDhan’s; it was the only sensible thing a housemate brought with her to kill time with, though, yes, I’d rather have Six Feet Under or Arrested Development. Oh, there was also a nobody-cares-but-me screening of Memento (which I’ve seen, but has gone bland on this second view) and My Summer of Love (young lesbo love story; nice photography, but doesn’t have enough meat on it for the casual viewer).
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How my Saturday morning sustenance was made:
More Shanghai food photos here.
PinoyTechBlog Meetup 2, and the Post Slowdown
The Saturday turnout of people who blog for PTB was a lot less than expected. I blame the weather and our ideal blog revenue that is still unrealized.
Nevertheless, it was a Saturday where I had a needed human-group interaction. Probably said more than necessary re my photography babble, but at least I got some reader feedback to improve on Litratista.org. Ok, Kim dude, time to step-up with our site already.
The obligatory and crappy snapshots:
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Post slowdown -as well as a difficulty in sleeping- c/o career concerns. Details later, and when definite.
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OT: Pork Humba food photo, cooked for dinner last week:
Hold that thought. Yes, that one
… and read on:
Opera is now officially FREE, and Ad-FREE; and
The GP2x: A Too-Good-To-Be-True Linux-Powered Handheld
That’s two more than my 2-post-a-week quota at PTB.
Speaking of PTB, AnP’s article here reminds me how important it is to be part of a blog network nowadays. PTB’ers, we, or whoever, needs to establish that blog empire we talked about last time already.
Oh, can Litratista.org join that empire, too? ;) Promise we’ll be nice!
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First ever attempt at pinakbet looks like bagoong with veggies, which it essentially is, I know, but what I did just made it so obvious. Kuya bought okra, and I didn’t know what to do with it. Don’t remember any instance that I ate it, and when I did a few hours ago, it dawned on me that this isn’t a veggie-to-eat-everyday; it just isn’t.
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Oh and YOU. YOU know who you are. Tell me you’re ok, that you just don’t feel like talking. I worry about YOU immensely. I’m at my most miserable now not knowing what’s happening to you.
Microwave French Toast + Meeting Group Blog Quotas
I’ve had a semi-hatred for pork giniling the past few months. I find the odor repulsive now, unless I use the stuff as tortang talong filling. Odd. So, instead of indulging in the simple ginisang sayote with pork giniling dinner I cooked yesterday, I decided to leave it all for my kuya to eat. Had a heavy bacon-and-eggs breakfast for my first meal that day, so I wanted something light-and-healthy. We still had a few slices of bread, so i thought of cooking French Toast again, but I didn’t want any of the oiliness in frying the stuff. Hence came the idea to microwave the bread in its traditional milk-and-eggs batter, and see if it comes out ok-enough to eat.
It was. A little bland, but nothing that pancake syrup, or cinnamon sprinkles, or honey can liven up. Since I had none of those, I went for the ghetto solution: brown sugar. I made it look like a bar of cake by slicing the bread in two, and put one slice on top of the other. Its best to have a microwavable container that will act as a mold of some sort to the toast, so it will keep the shape you want.
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Updated my post on Microsoft Max at PTB. Conclusion: as much as possible, stay away from it. However, WinFX, which is required before you get Max, seems to have installed two official Vista themes, which I’m currently using right now. Looks like this is the slight benefit to my all-nighter yesterday.
Finished my quota for litratista.org, too, with Photoshop-ing without Photoshop, which is a basic rundown of the FREE graphics apps available for Windows.
