Monday, March 14, 2022

THE EPIPHANY (How We Ate Kapitolyo, Sta. Cruz and Cubao)

The darkness of Ozark enveloped the Temple in Baloc as Marty, Wendy and the Snells battled the cartel of a scornful lackey and his deceiful tattler who in Season 2 laundered rumors into truth to plague Layton's dream with discord and conspiracy theories.

In protest, the Phantom Biker took to the bus with an unexpected detour in Baliuag which brought him to a refuge in Ortigas where the Snowpiercer collected garbage in Kapitolyo for Episode 7 of Season 3 in exchange for a dinner of nasi goreng with sate ayam, sop buntut and pecel lele after a sinadag of pritong tilapya and tokwa't baboy from the Thursday Group of Bakal 2.


Warung was a long walk from the blue colors of the Hop Inn Hotel, almost Jakarta but not quite, the main course after Thursday's lunch of xialongbao, shaomai and braised beef with soy sauce from LaoBeijing in Makati that was the entree for Friday's lunch of a Kebab Platter (beef and chicken, saffron rice, grilled onion and tomato) from Arabo Knights in Quezon City after a breakfast of Kanto Freestyle's Vigan longganisa and crispy corned beef balls in Kapitolyo.  

Perhaps, the misdeed on St. Piran's feast day is a calling to cut clean and join Harriet in Minty's Underground Railroad to Philadelphia, a most likely prospect divined at Poco Deli in Kapitolyo during a dinner of Nurnberger Breakfast, half of a pastrami sandwich and a delectable bowl of callos where Saturday's viewing of the house along Legarda Street in Sampaloc was hatched, a train ride from Cubao to Recto to the peculiar Maria Clara Church in Concepcion Street where Aglipayan saints were tempted by the aroma of cooking fried chicken, pancit canton and lumpiang shanghai from the Ramon Lee Panciteria in Sta. Cruz. 


"So My Wonderful Life in the Craft came down to this" mulled the Phantom Biker as Jo soothed him with an assortment of grilled meat from the Times Square Food Park at the Araneta Center, her secret apartment in Nysa insipiring him to enlist Valentin of The Parisian Agency in finding a "small gem with sweeping views" at the Ile Saint-Louis where he can entertain true friends in Season 2 with servings of fully loaded nachos from Cubao Expo's INT.Bar and breakfast plates from Tropical Hut.


To paraphrase Forrest Gump, life is a bike trail, and you never know where you're going which can be a paved road in Matingkis adorned with sunflowers, a dusty trail through the ricefields of Mapak-ol, a hidden pond along a river in Gabaldon or the steep climbs of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var and Tour de la Provence where Nario Quintana scored back-to-back victories before settling for a 5th place finish at Paris-Nice.     

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