Last night, for some reason or another, I only had a slice of Bega So Light cheese and 500 ml. of Absolut Drinking Water for dinner.

Surprisingly, I didn’t feel very hungry at all. What I really felt last night was tired, tired, tired. I was soo tired, but I had still had to wash some clothes, press the shirt I’m wearing today, and throw away my garbage. Anyway, I ended up having cheese and water for dinner. It’s very starving-artist romantic, having water and cheese for dinner. But I wasn’t starving, don’t think I’m an artist, and just felt tired, not romantic. So my thoughts turned to food, and eating.

All-time favorite food: Lechon Cebu, grilled tuna, grilled prawns, tom yum kom (or Thai hot and sour soup)
Favorite food type: seafood in general
Favorite cuisine: Filipino, Thai
Favorite comfort food: arroz caldo, chicken tinola
Favorite junk food: Jack n Jill V-Cut, Beer Match Old Fashioned Salt and Vinegar Cracklings, Pringles Sour Cream and Onions, Thai spicy baked cassava chips
Favorite choco bar (currently): Van Houten’s Whole Roasted Almonds with Milk Chocolate

Favorite breakfast: Corned beef, eggs, fried rice and coffee
Favorite lunch: Grilled tuna, soup, rice
Favorite dinner: Lots of different things, dinner is usually my favorite meal of the day
Favorite dessert: ice cream, mango crepes, cheesecake, moist chocolate cake
Favorite ice cream flavors: mango, ube, vanilla, Double Dutch (Nestle or Selecta)

Favorite part of the lechon: skin, ribs
Favorite fruits: mango, apple, banana

Favorite cooks: My mom (yummy hamonado!) my dad (fantabulous lechon and rellenong bangus!), my lola (wonderful humba!), Mark’s mom (delish pineapple-honey chicken and menudo!), my brother (he can cook a mean pork and chicken adobo in my oven toaster!), my friend Jessie’s mom (mouth-watering steamed tahong and hamon!)

Food I can manage to cook on my oven toaster aside from canned goods and eggs: spaghetti bolognese, grilled tuna, chicken adobo, stuffed bangus
Food I love to cook when I’m at home in Cebu: pork humba

Favorite restaurants in Cebu: Cafe Laguna, Seafood City
Favorite restaurants in Metro Manila: Sukhotai, enye, Banana Leaf Curry House, the now-closed Garlic Rose, Golden Triangle Restaurant, Mr. Kebab
Favorite restaurant in Tagaytay: Josephine’s (great food, fantastic view)
Favorite restaurant in Baguio: 50s Diner
Favorite restaurant in Boracay: Nigi Nigi Nu Noos
Favorite restaurant/cafe in Sagada: This place called Shamrock that serves yummy tuna-veggie rice
Favorite cafe in MM: Cafe Breton
Favorite hotel restaurant: Shangri-la Makati’s Shang Palace
Favorite hotel buffet: The buffet in Dusit Hotel Nikko’s coffee shop
Most memorable eating places: Garlic Rose, Nigi-Nigi Nu Noos, the sunken garden in U.P.

Favorite default lunch place: Grills and Thrills in Pioneer Highlands
Favorite default dinner place (even when I’m eating dinner alone): Diorama in Pioneer Center
Favorite fast food place: Red Ribbon, they have quite good pan-grilled porkchops, great pancit palabok and yummy cakes
Favorite “healthy” fast food place: Subway Sandwiches

Most favorite eating partner in the world: Markie
Next most favorite eating companions: My friends Trixy, Jean and Jessie
Most favorite family-member eating companions: My lola, and my cousins Celeste and Sun-sun

Favorite expressions when eating with Markie: “This is so yummy!” “Mmm…yummy!” “Can I try your food?” “Try mine too, ha.”
Favorite expression when eating with Trixy: “This is good ha.”
Favorite expressions when eating with Jean and Jessie: “Wow, daming food!” “Grabe Jes, your mom is such a great cook.”
Favorite expression when eating with my lola: “La, aren’t you eating that? I’ll eat that na lang.” (heehee)
Favorite expression when eating with Sun-Sun: “Sun, aren’t you done yet?” (He’s a growing boy at 8 years and has a very healthy appetite)

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