Mirsbin’s Kitchen

I knew I was about to get sick, but I didn’t want to stop since there were a lot of deadlines for clients that week. It was already a Friday but I wanted to go to the office to check my mail. Until I decided to just go to the parlor and have a haircut. Hoping that I would feel better after my haircut. With a slight temperature, I told Clorets that I wasn’t coming in to work but instead will have a haircut and head home afterwards.

I went to Tony and Jakey. I loved my hair but I was truly feeling miserably sick. As I went out, my mind was thinking of comforting, soothing food to eat.

I didn’t want a heavy meal, there were three choices in that building - either I go to Rai Rai Ken to eat Ramen, or eat at Pizza Hut or sing my lungs out in Centerstage while eating buffalo wings (which by the way is really good). I opted for Rai Rai Ken.

I was in Banana Yoshimoto mode. I remember in one of her books - Kitchen, she was describing how good the Ramen was. So here I am wanting really to be comforted. So I ordered Gomoku Ramen - it’s was my first ramen bowl and I wasn’t disappointed. The pork, seafood and noodles were cooked just right. The soup was comforting as I imagined. It was a big bowl but I managed to finish it all.

As I left the restaurant I still had fever but I the craving was satisfied. The next time I had ramen was during my friend’s birthday at Ramen Tei. I was a bit disappointed with the noodles and the soup was really tasteless.

With Clorets being my only officemate, I started getting used to eating alone. Sometimes I would bring “baon” to the office or just have Mcdo or Jollibee deliver food. One time I ate in this burger joint named JBJ’s in Tomas Morato. I had onion rings, strawberry milkshake and a really juicy burger. Sad to say I found out the other day that it just closed already.

Eating alone is not as pathetic as it may seem now that you’re not in school. I’m actually enjoying it. So with this initial blog, I’m starting my adventures of eating alone.

For this first entry, I ate “fishballs” in UP — alone. I had errands for my client last Saturday and I couldn’t resist not eating “fishballs” at the UP Shopping Center. It was really good! I had two sets of fishballs worth P10 plus an Apple C2. I had fun conversing with the manang while she was cooking. I asked how many packs of “fishballs” can be consumed on a daily basis, then some discussions on the price of oil and other ingredients. I told her about my now defunct Egay stall in St. Luke’s. I’ll probably do this again, next stop is the BBQ / Isaw stand nearby.

I haven’t been cooking lately, I’ve been watching what I eat for the past 3 weeks and it I don’t find any urge to cook. A friend recently asked me if I was trying out new dishes, and sad to say I haven’t really thought of whipping up new ones in the kitchen.

I’ve been eating out a lot though, but just the same I would just order salad or a sandwich. Nothing really specatacular.

Here are food updates around Metro Manila

- Amici resto is now open in Tomas Morato. It’s right beside Uno Resto and Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
- Check out Guia’s blog on Mommy Thai, her canteen used to be in the Asian Studies in UP then she transferred somewhere along Katipunan. She’s back but this time in Ortigas Home Depot. Hot not hot?
- Cow King recently updated it’s interiors. We’re currently planning the new menu.

Hopefully I get my cooking groove back in the coming weeks.

If this were dessert, I would cherish the last spoonful. But this is about closing down a store, the first project with my siblings. It was the last day of Egay yesterday, the store was just 5 months old but my brother and I decided to close it down due to several factors.

My sisters could not bear to look at the now empty store. I was there until the end but I vowed that this will be the first and last project that we will close down. All my efforts are now focused on 3 things - my design studio, my dips and Cow King.

My hopes of opening a small cafe is still in the dream stage, one day I will open it. But when that time comes I hope to finally have perfected the ins and outs of running a resto.

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