Cimbali goodness!

One of my finds here in Dumaguete is Cimbali's Cinnamon Nut Raisin loaf at the basement of Lee Super Plaza. One of my family's favorites, it is especially tasty when you get it still warm! Ah! The gooey goodness of cinnamon sugar!

banana cue!

One of the things I have missed for being away so long are these delicious deep fried caramel-coated goodies on sticks. They're good piping hot and you can buy them for about PhP 5 - a far cry from the PhP 1 I used to spend when I was in grade school more than a decade ago.

We've tried recreating this in NYC, but it was just too difficult. We somehow couldn't get the sugar to caramelize AND coat the bananas the same way as here.

Yum!

home and Taster's!

It's been 2 weeks since I got back home on an extended vacation. Sabbatical, if you may. I have been trying to decide changing the tag line on this blog, however, I believe I'll always be a New Yorker at heart, so it'll stay the same. This will just be a more worldly journey at this point, as I don't know where I'll end up in the next couple of months.

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Two weeks and I've already been around a ton of food. First and foremost is my favorite burger of all time. Taster's Delight Sandwich Style Burger. My family has a long history with Taster's Delight. We've been going since I was in kindergarten, I think probably after N's Pizza Plaza closed down. Even when my brother and I were in Manila for college, we'd get our monthly/weekly ration of Taster's siopao frozen via Air Philippines. The lady who takes orders there (who's been there 18 years at least) knows all of us and has known all of us since us kids were.... kids. And she tells us so too.