My Sunday With Mycah

After going to church, my Mycah ask me to buy an ink for our printer. She has an assignment to print she said. So with her alone, without my other two children, we went to a bookstore inside the mall.

Upon entering the mall she saw on the glass wall of the restaurant the people eating. She spotted the one eating a Halo-halo. Then she told me she wants to eat a halo-halo too. Even though it's raining outside and the cooler inside was so chilling. But my child wants to, and I can't say no to my child. The restaurant was full already, there's no vacant seat, it's Sunday, lots of family were shopping or just went to see a movie. So we walked further more and found another place. But I said the halo-halo there looks not so good, but she said it's okey, her mouth was watering already.

So we enter there and got our orders. She ordered halo-halo without an ice cream topping.

Btw, Halo- halo is (from tagalog word halo, "mix") is a popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans and fruits, and served cold in a tall glass or bowl.

There is no specific recipe for this dessert, and a wide variety of ingredients are used. The order in which the ingredients are added varies widely. Primary ingredients generally include boiled red mung beans(monggo), kidney beans, garbanzos, sugar plumfruit (kaong), coconut sport (macapuno), and plantains caramelized in sugar. Other components may include jackfruit (langka), sago, nata de coco, purple yam (ube) or sweet potato(kamote),pounded crushed young rice (pinipig), leche flan or custard, and gelatin. Some preparations also include ice cream on top of the halo-halo.

And for the final ingredient, evaporated milk is used instead of fresh milk, due to the tropical climate of the Philippines. (See: Halo halo - Wikipedia)

and for me, I ordered only a La Paz Batchoy for it's only snack time yet.

Batchoy (contention states that the word may have originated from the Chinese (Hokkien) Ba-chui (肉粹) meaning "pieces of meat") is a noodle soup which originated in the district of La Paz, Iloilo City in the Philippines. As with most noodle dishes in the Philippines, batchoy mayhave been first concocted by Chinese immigrants.

Ingredients include pork organs (liver, spleen, kidneys and heart) crushed pork cracklings , vegetables, shrimp, chicken breast or beef loin, shrimp broth, chicken stock and round noodles or miki. The noodles are similar to spaghetti, but are generally a bit finer. Oil is heated in a stock-pot. The pork organs, shrimp, chicken and beef are stir-fried for about a minute. Soy sauce is then added. The shrimp and chicken stock is then added and left to simmer for a few minutes. This broth is then added to a bowl of noodles and topped with leeks, pork cracklings (chicharon) and sometimes a raw egg is cracked on top. (See: Batchoy - Wikipedia)

After eating we continue to our destination ... we walked, and walked slowly, looking what's on sale and what's new on display as we walked by. She spotted a food stall selling a Japanese pan cake, she told me to buy for her brother and sister at home.

My children eat so fast, I'm too late to take photos of the cake, only the box was left.

Then we continue walking, but on our way my Mycah saw again her another favorite, a shredded japanese corn with butter and bought again. But she can't go in the book store eating that corn so we decided to stay at the corner and wait her to finish her corns.

At the book store, aside from the ink for our printer, I bought a new books and my kid too. "Seven Things That Steal Your Joy" by Joyce Meyer and "The Power of a Positive Mom" by Karol Ladd. Mycah picked "The King's Fifth" by Scott O'Dell.

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