We were like lost souls wandering around Rockwell’s Power Plant Mall after our “okay lang” dinner at Din Tai Fung. We were both craving for something we didn’t know yet, till we spotted this pop-up store selling freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies.
We just wanted to try one small piece but most have been sold out because it was almost 9 pm.
The one cookie left was huge with a fat price tag.
I know prices of goods have skyrocketed in the Philippines in the past few years but I haven’t reached the level of realization that a single piece of cookie could cost more than 200 bucks. Sabagay nung araw sweldo ng labandera ng mama ko 35 pesos. Then when Oyen was 2 years old, our labandera’s salary was P250 then P400. Nowadays, no one wants to wash clothes for less than 6,000.
MO cookies better be delicious to justify the pangmayaman price tag.
My daughter said we’re in Rockwell. Yeah I noticed. Girls go malling looking like they were going to a cocktail party. They looked bihis na bihis. Naka isputing. Maybe people who come here have a lot of dough.
P200+ for a cookie means half a day’s work for ordinary employees.
We didn’t want to spend a lot of money on one piece of cookie. We were just craving after our dinner and we wanted a bite or two. We went to Mrs. Fields’ instead. #kuripotladies
