'Look where we are going now...'
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27560)
Philippines
August 7, 2021 1:11am CST
My elder daughter is very busy with her 'home work' that we rarely get to have conversations. But the 'sushi bake' over lunch must have brought her some memories......
I only asked how much could the sushi bake be? She answered some thousand and a half Philippine peso. I exclaimed how expensive! My daughter said we deserve some good food every now and then...
She recalled the times when she was at the university and she and her friends would wait for afternoon merienda when the 'carbonara' and spaghetti get to have a five peso discount. They have to save the five pesos for xerox and public fare.
Remembered her male classmate and fellow Environmental Planner O'Neill who saw her before she departed for London. He was telling her the carbonara and spaghetti would have been more satisfying. All he had at the end of each school day was a five peso rice with free soup.
But O'Neill reminded her those were the days that made them tough and strong., He said, 'Look where we are going now.....' O'Neill joined a real estate company for urban development.
Yup. A long way from the days they subsisted on discounted food.
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@youfiq (2565)
• United States
7 Aug 21
So many memories of food that some types of food have a special place in our hearts
like in the case of this sushi.
I agree with you, sometimes we need to appreciate ourselves and the people around us, even though it's a little expensive, but it can warm the atmosphere again
oh yeah, the food in the photo looks delicious, mmmm yummy... it makes my snacking appetite go crazy
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
8 Aug 21
You are correct. Rolling the sushi on the nori became a bonding moment for me and my daughter. She is always so busy with her research and writing that most of the time, she brings her iced coffee and snacks upstairs and work for hours on end.
She couldn't do that with the expensive sushi bake and we simply slipped down memory lane with each bite.
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@florelway (23327)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
9 Aug 21
@eileenleyva you know before pandemic and I need to go to a place where I know there's no restaurants I make sure I have baon. So I use Nori to wrap the steamed rice, put a dash of salt and wrap in foil. It's very convenient. I don't have to look for a place to have lunch.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
10 Aug 21
@florelway Wow! That's a good way to wrap hot rice. Good Idea.
If ever I have to go on a long road trip, I'd prepare 'baon' like that.
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@florelway (23327)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
7 Aug 21
Nice to recall those times. I remembered those times too when we would buy like 2 orders of pancit bihon at the canteen on the ground floor of our building. We were already in Seniors then and then we would share the pancit na walang karneng sahug and put lots of calamansi and pepper? There were 5 of us sharing. That started my love for pancit bihon. Anyway yesterday I had pancit bihon for merienda we just ordered it from a restaurant here. 
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
8 Aug 21
Waaah. Wawa you!
Walang sahug. Hu Hu
My gangmates and I availed of the 'buy one take one' cheesy burger at the canteen. That would last us the whole day. My last class on a Wednesday commenced at 9 pm and ended half past 10. I usually got home before midnight.
Those were our college days, huh. It's good to remember.
Walang sahug. Hu Hu
My gangmates and I availed of the 'buy one take one' cheesy burger at the canteen. That would last us the whole day. My last class on a Wednesday commenced at 9 pm and ended half past 10. I usually got home before midnight.
Those were our college days, huh. It's good to remember.1 person likes this
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
10 Aug 21
@florelway Terror of an instructor Mr. Anam was. May he rest in peace. It was for a television/radio course and we have to use the top of the Main Building for the equipment. Our schedule was for an earlier slot but Mr. Anam was infuriated with us always so he made it difficult by changing the class schedule to a nigt slot. It was scary going home. I ran up the deserted street after alighting from the last jeepney that would drop me nearest my village corner. My father waited up.
I couldn't forget the cheapy cheesy burger. It was all my allowance could afford.
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@florelway (23327)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
9 Aug 21
@eileenleyva 
I also had night class schedule but I think that was 9 pm only, easier for me because in five minutes or less am home. My titan's house is very near UST. Heard of that billiard.hall along dapitan and navarra that's our street. I remember the cheesy burger my favorite too but sometimes there's after taste of the beef lol, my taste buds are so sensitive to beef. But I am missing their cheese sandwich too. Di ba they.just.make it? Yun dark color yellow.
I also had night class schedule but I think that was 9 pm only, easier for me because in five minutes or less am home. My titan's house is very near UST. Heard of that billiard.hall along dapitan and navarra that's our street. I remember the cheesy burger my favorite too but sometimes there's after taste of the beef lol, my taste buds are so sensitive to beef. But I am missing their cheese sandwich too. Di ba they.just.make it? Yun dark color yellow.1 person likes this
@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
9 Aug 21
@eileenleyva I recently wrote about having egg pie for dessert and how it reminded me of my grade school days.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
9 Aug 21
@allen0187 Checked the post out. Yes, eggpie was once upon a time the 'snack'. It's a treat from everyday tsamporado, nilagang saging o kamote o mais, puto o kutshinta.
I love eggpies also, my daughters not much.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
8 Aug 21
Care to give an example of a food and a memory it brings?
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@averygirl72 (37996)
• Philippines
25 Aug 21
We have tried that sushi bake and order from our neighbor and it is expensive. But I don't really like this kind of food. I like to treat myself with carbonara and spaghetti everyday if that is possible
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
25 Aug 21
Yes. I am a pasta person also. Plus noodles. But sometimes, the Japanese food concoction brings out the umami taste. I love tempura, tonkatsu, teriyaki and sushi. This sushi bake is a new way of presenting the supposedly little rolls. A variety of styles, I think. I like the California Maki style.
@averygirl72 (37996)
• Philippines
26 Aug 21
@eileenleyva I think I will love tempura but I think I haven't tried it
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@RebeccasFarm (90571)
• Arvada, Colorado
7 Aug 21
That is quite an accomplishment
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
8 Aug 21
Yes. Something like that. But for deprived students, it's much, much more.
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