Another gustatory hotspot brought to you by cheapskate self-proclaimed feeling-gourmand: OCEAN Seafood (just in case you got confused). Next-door neighbor to Don Galo Tapa, this seafood hole-in-the-wall is also below the Katipunan overpass, across Ateneo (between Gates 2 and 3).
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When I was in Grade 6, having Chips Ahoy for recess was the equivalent of a 30-something woman lugging a Dolce & Gabbana handbag from the Winter 2008 Customized Crocodile Collection to work. We’re not talking about the basic chocolate chip variant that came in the blue pack: that would have the street cred of a genuine but certainly non-limited-edition basic black Prada purse sold in the Kowloon black market. When it comes to the true badge of baon affluence, it had to be Chocolate Covered Chips Ahoy With Chocolate Stripes, which came in a white pack. And for a long time, the only place in the country you could get this from was a balikbayan box.
Though the Chips Ahoy fever has certainly mellowed out, and most leading supermarkets now carry the brand, they’re not any less snooty on the sticker price. It’s a bitch to shell out a couple of hundred bucks when all you really want is one piece to sate that sweet tooth after a meal.
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Move over, Tapa King; hello there, Don Galo.
Remember when the brainless choice for a cheap but savory meal at 4 in the morning was institutionalized by that red-and-white neon-lit 24-hour tapsi hub that was Tapa King? A few years ago, I knew their delivery hotline by heart, because whenever my colleagues and I found our tummies doing a chorus line while OT-ing past midnight, there was only one number to call. “Kain?” one of us would usually just throw out there in the windowless, recycled office air. No questions asked, each of us would parry with our usual order: “Tapa Queen,” “King,” “With extra rice,” “Bangus” (there’s always the token vegetarian), “Prince.”
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Consider this my first pick among what I hope to be a collection of BAC (Bestest Among the Cheapest) thrills—from meals to clothes to cosmetics and everything in between.
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