Out of all meals in a day, I'd have to say that my favorite is breakfast. Breakfast needs no bullshit. You're excused from presenting yourself at the table sleepwear-clad with your bedhead, you may eat as much greasy food you want and basically just indulge in all the bacon, Spam and eggs life has to offer. It is after all the first meal of the day. I like believing that calories begin to matter past breakfast hours. So imagine my excitement when just before bedtime last night our dad told my sister and I that he'd take us out for breakfast and we'd hit thrift stores afterwards. I remember responding with a "YAY!" and immediately knew I wanted to have pancakes drizzled with maple syrup. Well, that didn't work out.
My sister and I got out of bed at 11am. In my defense, I couldn't sleep right away 'cause I was distraught by a horrible tummyache. So plans changed and Dad decided we eat at the nearest diner/coffee house, Komeda's. We got there at 11:15 and the breakfast service had already expired by 15mins. Great. But oh, it gets worse.
They didn't have pancakes! hfdkjfg&W#)((&$"!&((!#$ /wristI've actually eaten there many times before and I knew they wouldn't have any pancakes but was it so illegal of me to hope?? I had to move on. So I ordered this instead.
I ordered an egg bun which was ginormous! Had I known its size, I would have just split a sandwich with my sister.
My sister's scrambled toast.
I was still happy to go there because I've been craving for a cuppa hot coco for breakfast.
That's like ice cream mounting the coco. I know.. but it's breakfast!
Their house blend coffee.
After breakfast, we had to run to one of the supermarkets and restock on eats. In Japan and I would assume as in many other countries that are not the Philippines, people bag their own groceries. No one's going to carry your stuff for you and ask you if you want it in plastic bags or in boxes. So if you've chanced upon this entry of mine and is responsible enough to be doing one's own grocery shopping and currently living outside the Philippines, today is your lucky day!
Presenting: An Idiot's Guide to Bagging Groceries
Disclaimer: We have actually chucked the practice of using plastic bags in carrying our groceries and shifted to using eco-friendly bags but since this trip to the super was unanticipated, we left mother nature's bags at home.
I hope you learned a thing or two!
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