Food Among Other Things

This blog entry will mostly be about food. You've been forewarned. :P

We had to run several errands today. First and foremost was to go to San Jose de Navotas Parish to get Nards' baptismal certificate that we need to submit to Sta. Rita as part of our wedding requirements there; as well to submit a copy to the Mary Immaculate Cathedral for his confirmation. (We were both surprised to learn he hasn't been confirmed.) Before we left the church we went around to San Jose Academy, the parochial school run by the parish, where Nards spent his entire grade school and high school life. He underwent "The First of May" (referring to the music here, not the movie portrayed in the link) syndrome for a while, but quickly recovered because our next errand was to buy Norma's Pancit Luglug.

Nards could not stop raving about Norma's Pancit Luglug. So we hurriedly went to a very nice house that Pancit Luglug built. While we waited for it, he told me of many parties where the critical elements were Norma's pancit, barbecue and puto. After a quick stop at the Mary Immaculate cathedral, we hung out at a friend's place and devoured it.

It's really really good. I'm not a big fan of puto, but Norma's puto was gargantuan and liberally sprinkled with cheese.

Off the dentist after that to finish my treatment. And in honor of the wonderful tradition of both our parents, we went to get ice cream after our visit to the dentist. We went to Kozui for Melon Anmitsu.

It's basically green tea ice cream with sticky taro balls (bola bola in other words), tasty sticky bean paste (that's the pink glob on the right), melon cubes, lots of green tea jelly underneath the ice cream and a small amount of crushed ice at the bottom. It's their japanese take on our halo-halo.

It was yummy, and absolutely perfect after a dental visit. But the jury is still out on their other dishes. Which means, we'll have to go back there. Yey!