The cake combo meal may not seem noteworthy to Filipinos, but it was a first for me. I would've tried the ube cake if they had been selling slices of it that day. Nothing life-changing, but it was a satisfying, not too sweet cake treat. The mango cake consisted of three moist, spongy layers spread with light mango bits-speckled frosting. I feel like i just went to a birthday party. And I was already full from lunch, but I'll talk about that more in my next post. I didn't try any of the non-baked goods- palabok, arroz caldo, and baked macaroni-as I got the impression they're just supplementary to the cakes. And that's where I discovered one of the best combo meals ever: the kind that comes with cake (and soda). Last Sunday while I was in Queens for an afternoon of Filipino face stuffing with Veronica, Kelly, and Francine, we stopped into Red Ribbon for my first Filipino bakery experience. Although it's rare that I ever want to pull something out of my stupidly long posts in fear of something good getting buried, this won my attention: COMBO MEAL. And that's on top of my normally unhealthy habits of eating tons.īut before I retire to my cold, lumpy bed for a late nap, I'll give you a preview of my next post that hasn't been written yet, except in lil' bits and bobs in my head.

As my mom and just about everyone else in the world has reminded me, five to six hours of sleep a night isn't conducive to good health (which could explain why my brain isn't working so well-and thus I'm caught in a cycle of failure).

Which is why it's no surprise that I'm staying in on this sunny (and chilly) Saturday afternoon with some sort of illness that is making my throat itchy and my coughs hacky and phlegmy. in order to fit in all the stuff I want (mostly in the category of 'watching videos of cute animals doing funny things') and need ( work) to do. (By the way, I love this image from Videogum's episode recap.) My explanation: my brain has deteriorated about 50 years in the last month and my brain just ain't working to the point that I now go to bed at 3 a.m. And I can't even blame it on Lost anymore since I now only watch one episode a week instead of my previous four-episodes-a-night marathons when I was catching up on the first five seasons. I know my posting schedule has fallen off over the past month or.more. Red Ribbon's Combo Meal: Hooray for Cake!

Red ribbon menus