| Turo-Turo Restaurant, where I bought the first part of my lunch.
| I saw some people eating these and didn't know what they were, so I
found a stand and ordered them. No, I don't know what they're called.
Regardless, they're effectively doughnut holes (i.e., fried balls of
dough). I ate half of them and saved the rest for dessert later, as
they were probably meant to be.
| Irma's Pampanga Restaurant, where I bought the main part of my lunch.
| I don't know the names of what I tried; I simply picked what looked good
that I was in the mood for. The stew (menudo?) was pretty good and
hearty, with chicken, carrots, potatoes, onions, and chickpeas. The
eggroll-like-thing was also fairly decent, with surprisingly American
fillings: carrots, kidney beans, peas, green beans, corn, and celery.
The stand had three different items that looked like eggrolls. I know this
wasn't the lumpia--those are smaller--, but I don't know what it was.
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| House of
Silvanas, where I bought dessert.
| An original silvana: a cold cookie consisting of "a layer of buttercream
sandwiched between two cashew-meringue wafers, coated with cookie
crumbs." Really, it's just a dense cake with a thin layer of cream
inside. As you bite, you hit cake, then a layer of crystallized cake
(due to the temperature of the cookie as a whole), then a layer of
cream. The cookie has an interesting texture, but lacks much flavor.
| An ensaimada: a very light, eggy bread with a salty, sweet, cheese
topping. (The topping includes sugar--that's the sweetness--and the
cheese provides the saltiness.) I think I don't like salty or cheesy pastries.
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