A CHEF'S hiSTORY

The Phantom Biker plunged into the rabbit hole on Monday and  emerged 5 minutes later to a feast of Heavenly Bites in Mexico where gallons of michelada hosed bags of overloaded chips, murderous desserts, insane giant burritos and frankenstein conchas and tortas off the dining tables of Oaxaca to restore the mole and mezcal as the centerpieces of Mexican cuisine thus beaming the Phantom Biker back to Bakal 2 where the candle smoke from a potted plant cake conjured a tray of sinaing na tulingan, two slabs of pork ribs barbecue, a pot of gotong Batangas and Li Hongzhang's chop suey for a Thursday birthday fete that was 18 days late because the hors d'oeuvres and wine aged prematurely in Cabanatuan.

Meanwhile in Cebu, the lobster rolls from Maine got exposed to COVID-infected reindeer meat from Helsinki so Somebody Feed Phil, not with Oregon oysters or Madrid's tortilla de patatas but with Italian salami and a goat head stew prepared by Chef Theo Dahl in the kitchens of Toscana for a sinadag in Bakal 2 that morphed into a Saturday dinner of dinakdakan, tiim na bibe, kalderetang kambing and an MILF from Baloc with a flat butt and an equally flat singing voice.  

We are A Nation of Broth chasing away hangovers and an elusive DOST scholarship with an array of jjamppong, an assortment of gukbap and a mutant budae jjigae that evolved from the workshops of applied physics and industrial engineering, so comforting even the rebooking fee from Phnom Penh was waived as the Phantom Biker emptied his matrixed irritation in the bike trails...