THE COMING OF SIDCOR (Kapitolyo II, Cubao II and Quiapo)

The Snowpiercer first detected a weak signal from the Five Star bus to Cubao but it was enough for Hopp Inn and Red Planet-Aurora to confirm that the SIDCOR Sunday Market is back in Episode 8 of Season 3! 

This was leaked to the shady residents of Ozark who then recruited the Kill Team from Afghanistan to have Ben and Helen liquidated so Wyatt can continue fucking Darlene for the perverse enjoyment of Sgt. Deeks in Season 3.

It was a Sunday morning when the Phantom Biker reached Eton Centris, an hour before the bus trip to Bambang but enough for Bulan to snare a breakfast of igado, inihaw na talong and Lechon Bicol Express from the food stalls.

SIDCOR came four days after a feast of nilagang mani, pritong tilapia, kinilaw na tuna and sisig with the Thursday Group of Bakal 2, almost 23 days after a Winter on Fire and Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, and three days after a lunch of lechong kawali and tinolang manok in East Kamias and a dinner of a delighful pork barbecue and pansit bihon at the Three Sisters Restaurant of Pasig (circa 1941) in Kapitolyo. 

Before SIDCOR, the Phantom Biker took Track 3 from Don Francisco Ortigas Sr.'s estate to reminisce William James Shaw teeing off for Mayor Bonifacio Javier's war medals and a pew in Sen. Nicolas Buendia's independent church where the Zobel de Ayalas venerate Fernando de Magallanes for claiming the Philippines (and esuring their fortune) which William Howard Taft would rule as Civil Governor while in Track 1, Sen. Gil Puyat traded some of his Loyola companies for a membership in Mayor Hermogenes Vito Cruz's Church of the Katipunan, an arrangement that Pres. Elpidio Quirino relayed to Dr. Pedro Gil for legislation in the National Assembly as the bust of the original rebel priest stared hard in contempt.  

 

Some of them are of the Craft where the Phantom Biker attended to one last unfinished business before time travelling in 1851 to Capitan General Francisco Carriedo's time as he was establishing the Quinta Market where the halo-halo would later evolve from the mitsumame that Pastora Special Palabok paired with what is said to be the best pancit palabok in Manila to which I strongly disagree. 

Bulan boarded the train on SIDCOR's Eve for a clearance sale and food crawl along old Echague where the aroma of baking bread announced that Vienna Bakery's hot pandesal is ready to be filled with sweet scraps from Excelente's pineapple ham that has been curing since 1963 and between the bakery and the meat shop, Ong Pei Pee has been pugon-baking a flaky pastry for the Kim Chong Tin Hopia Factory since 1927, a brunch set that went quite well with a bowl of beef mami with a bland soup but al dente egg noodles.

They parted under the shadow of Doroteo Jose's anti-church sentiments: Bulan through the remembrances of Sen. Claro M. Recto, Amb. Benito Legarda, Chief Justice Victorino Mapa, Katipunero Juan Ruiz, Vice Governor-General Eugene Allen Gilmore and Publisher Betty Go-Belmonte on the way to Cubao; the Phantom Biker to Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos and Gen. Ricardo Papa who escorted him to the watchmaker of North Avenue.   

That night, the Phantom Biker walked Bulan through the class divide of Friday night specials in Cubao --- first to the working class enclave of the Araneta Times Square Food Park where a serving of dinakdakan and two pieces each of grilled isaw and bulaklak washed down with cold Red Horse extra strong beer is a filling meal for just P400; then to Fred's Revolucion at the yuppie neighborhood of nearby Cubao Expo where three bottles of San Miguel pale pilsen, a plate of average Hoi Chi Wings and Bellini's overrated special pizza cost almost a grand. 

The SIDCOR Suday Market is 167 kilometers aways from bike trails of Munoz where the Phantom Biker rewinded the week's voluptuous images of the MILF from Bakal 2 four days before D-Day...