small plates. brief verdicts.
A running log of the meals, snacks, bakery misses, and properly judged food decisions that keep interrupting the trip. Some notes are photos. Some are shorts. All of them get a short review.
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Cebu City
Dried squid with a sugar coating, some chew, and a decent hit of spice.
I like squid in general, and also most dried and sweet fish I have come across. This one is a bit over-sweet, but the texture is nice and chewy and lasts.
The spice hits a bit, but is not overpowering. I would eat it again.
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IByang's Hidden Inasal, Cebu City
Inasal delivery with sweet-savoury sauce, smoky meat, bright Java rice, and turon to finish.
M.E. had pecha. J.A. had skewers of chicken and pork. We had Java rice.
The sauce was sweet and savoury. The chicken was delicate and pleasant, with a touch of smoke. The pork had more bite, which I really enjoyed.
We also had turon for dinner, banana in a spring roll wrapper. It uses saba banana, which is commonly cooked here rather than the ones I am eating for lunch, in a syrup with cinnamon and then skillet-cooked or something similar. It is also called lumpiang saging, or banana lumpia.
Poulsbo, Washington
M.E.'s Costco pie quest in Poulsbo turned into a Pi Day short, complete with a very large apple pie.
This was M.E.'s quest for Costco pie in Poulsbo, Washington, involving a mile walk and, somehow, uphill both ways.
The 2 kg apple pie was partly for the fun of the video, but also because Pi Day without pie was not an acceptable outcome.