Binondo Part I

I just realized that I miss blogging, the long form. Ever since I started Twitter-ing last 2006, I have been not been blogging regularly. Or maybe I missed typing my thoughts because I did email my high school batch before blogging this.

Just came from Binondo with my high school friends Ayn, Honey, Therese and Emmylou. Man, we walked for hours! From the Recto LRT2 station, we walked to the Binondo Church. I don't know how many kilometers we walked but thank goodness it wasn't so sunny this morning. Thanks too Typhoon Isang for not raining down when we were walking. Thank you to the nice and kind people we met along the way who gave us the right directions. Screw the pedicab drivers who wanted to charge us P50 each to pedal us to the Binondo Church.

When we reached the Binondo Church, we saw that it was prepared for an afternoon wedding. The decoration in the aisle was soooo pretty. We wanted to hop and down the aisle. It was that pretty. But of course we didn't. We just said our prayers and left. We chose a different door to exit and we saw the purple fire trucks parked nearby. So we turned on our tourist modes and had our pics taken with the famous purple fire trucks of Manila.

Then we crossed the street to the Eng Bee Tin shop. This place is famous for anything ube. Ube hopia, ube siopao, ube candies, etc. I've always thought that they are just offering hopia and sipao. But much to our surpise, they have lots of products. Haw flakes, mikiron, coconut pies, tikoy, candies and other Chinese delicacies. While inside the shop, it rained so hard that we could hardly see through the rain. So we decided to eat in the nearby Tasty Dumplings for lunch.

I almost wanted to puke at the thought of eating at Tasty Dumplings again for the 2nd time this week. But I had no choice since I didn't want to get wet and eventually worsen my cough. I had a hard time ordering because I haven't eaten anything from this restaurant except for porkchop rice. I ended up ordering spareribs rice, steamed dumplings and silver roll bread. I recommended to my friends that they order porkchop rice and wintermelon juice. Only Therese ordered porkchop rice but all of them ordered wintermelon juice. They liked the silver roll bread I ordered for everyone. Since it was my birthday yesterday, I picked up the tab :)

(I am so sleepy. I will finish the story tomorrow.)