Lamian nga sud-an.

Hello beautiful people!

I hope you all are doing fine amidst of the shortcomings and uncertainties we may feel day by day. Always remember that a positive life is a happy life. ✨

If you are friends with me on social media especially on Facebook, for sure you got to see that I always eat at some fancy restaurants, buffet, or any food stalls that you can see inside the mall at least twice a month (that's during my payday) not because I have a lot of money in my pocket but because I wanted to reward myself at least once in a while for the hard works I did. And I know I deserve such treat.

But before I got to experience such, I experienced as well not having a single viand served on our dining area. No veggies, no meat, no fish. That is not because we do not eat such, but because we cannot to afford to buy them. Before. We can only eat such if my parents has enough money to spend. However, it does not stop us from having our meals. As long as we have enough rice to cook, for sure we will survive. So what did we do to complete our meal? What's the food we paired with our cooked rice?

Tinughong

This kind of food is one of the best food I ever tasted. Every time we really do not have anything on our table to eat, we always look for ways not to starve. My mom will cook us Tinughong. She will check our cauldron if there's any leftover rice and she will just put water on it and some sugar. And there, we already have our food to eat. Our own kind of porridge before.

Toyo - Mantika Combo

This is the best combo I got to taste. It feels like I am eating adobo everytime I pair soy sauce and cooking oil with rice. I love eating this combo using my bare hands. I can even eat at least two and a half cup of rice with just this and my tummy is already happy. One of my comfort food until now.

Kapeng Sabaw

Forget about those fancy breakfast set. Enough with toast and brewed coffee. When we really have nothing before, 2 pesos would be enough to buy an instant coffee and paired it with rice. That was our best breakfast combo. It's best to eat while hot. Our own version of champorado since we cannot afford any chocolate powder before to make one.

Milo

This is one of the best viand we can ever had before. The moment we get a chance to pair milo with rice feels like we are already rich. Its a total happiness for a child before to eat such and I am a living witness on how happy I am to eat this pair. And milo was just 4 pesos before.

Corniks

Where's my 90's besties here? Remember this famous cornick before? Let's forget about Nova, Lays, Piattos for now. This one is the best. We used to pair this with spicy vinegar and pair it with rice and the meal will be solved. This suffice our hunger .With just 1 or 2 peso, we can have our meal already as we can buy this cornick to serve as our viand.

To experience how our life was so difficult before did not stop me from still dreaming that one day we will get a chance to eat the food we weren't able to eat. And it makes me happy that slowly we are already experiencing it. But it will not changed the fact that eating the mentioned foods above was one of the best experience I have and it completed my childhood. This also helped me realized that no matter how hard life is as long as you have the will to change your path for good, you will really see a light at the end of the tunnel.

That's all for today beautiful people. If you have any thoughts about this, feel free to leave it in the comment section below. Let's interact. Stay safe always! Xoxo ✨☺️

- MissJo 💜

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