There are dishes that we associate with the rainy season like tuyo, pritong galunggong- bagay na bagay pag malakas ang bagyo.
Last Wednesday, we both wanted hot noodles soup. We enumerated the restaurants close enough to our residence but none that’s good enough. We drove to Gloria Maris in Greenhills, Edmund said their dimsum and noodles are better.
First time I’ve seen their basement parking. It has high ceiling and spacious.
Few people because it’s only 5 pm. But Edmund’s acquaintance, Baste, was at the other long table with his family and friends.
I ordered what I went there for– Shrimp Wanton Noodle soup.
Edmund’s– Beef wanton noodle soup plus a giant siopao.
Husband and wife reminisced their early travels while eating dimsum.
Edmund was sent by my Kuya Lito to Brazil, straight from Manila to Los Angeles, to Miami, to Sao Paolo. Sixteen hours x 2. That was Edmund’s longest flight to date.
He was a lot younger then, 19 years ago.
We also talked about his trip to Alabama with my brother, inspecting pine wood.
My brother used to have a company that supplied wood poles to power utility companies.
My brother also sent Edmund to France with Angel Mangulabnan, an engineer employed also by my brother. Edmund and I met in Paris and stayed at the Hotel de Sevigny in Rue de Belloy near Etats Unis’ embassy. I think my son was only one and a half years old. There was no cellphone yet, no internet. While in Paris, I wanted to go to London but Edmund refused. He couldn’t understand why I wanted to go to London. Ako rin ang nasunod. I remembered taking a cab to a small travel agency, bought two one-way tickets to London. We asked the information counter at the Heathrow International Airport to help us find a hotel. We just told the woman to book us a hotel near the tourist areas. We stayed at the Cheshire Hotel just off Oxford Street. We were given the room in the attic. Or that’s the attic converted into a hotel room. Pagnakahiga ako parang malapit na sa mukha ko yung ceiling. But the toilet was nice and spacious. This would be a long story, I will stop here. Saka ko na ikwento, masyadong mahaba.
Do you want siopao?
