Comments on: Panic Shopping and Eating Habits Change…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:39:28 +0000

Nel, they sell pine nuts at Santis delicatessen. You can probably also get them at Galileo Enoteca in mandaluyong and some of the bake shops I have featured in this blog before…

By: Nel

Nel — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:03:53 +0000

It’s kinda off topic but where can I buy pine nuts here in Manila? I end up substituting peanuts whenever I make basil pesto. =(

By: trishlovesbread

trishlovesbread — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:47:47 +0000

P.S. Speaking of blackouts, guess what some Wash., DC residents hoarded when there were blackouts there in 2003? Milk and bread!! Weird, right? The local news people had to tell them to buy Pop-tarts instead.

By: trishlovesbread

trishlovesbread — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:43:47 +0000

Yikes, signal no. 4! For those of you living in high rise buildings, better check what wind speeds and pressure your windows can withstand. My dad made my two sisters evacuate their condominiums in Ortigas and Makati (where they each live on the 20th+ floor) because he had serious doubts about the quality of glass used in their condos. They safely stayed at our sturdy QC home during the storm and helped themselves to the contents of my mom’s overstocked fridge. :-)

By: s.anne

s.anne — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:20:55 +0000

Gonzo,

Thanks for the correction….

Yes it was forecasted signal#4 vicinity of Pampanga. My brother almost had nervous breakdown because of that.

J says “very few storms that Pag-Asa predicted accurately”.

By: Didi

Didi — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:04:07 +0000

How I miss MaLing!!

I love when the helpers slice it very thinly and deep fry it. MaLing chips!! :)

Yummy..

By: choy

choy — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:49:58 +0000

typhoons and blackouts go hand in hand. and from childhood until the last big typhoon hit metro manila eons back, we would have tuyo, daing (isda or pusit), sardines or corned beef and kaning lamig (bahaw). funny how i felt a hankering for such foods when the lights went out amidst the light and sound fury of milenyo. we also ate with our hands and paper plates as in the old days. conserve water, you know.

then we treated the kids to the old fairy tales, horror and war stories that ma and pa used to tell us in candlelight just before bedtime.

and to think our kids are in their twenties! but they totally enjoyed it. just one of the rare positive notes from a typhoon/blackout.

By: gonzo

gonzo — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:02:52 +0000

“better safe than never??” i think you mean ‘better safe than sorry…’

anyway there was no panic for me because i moved all my refrigerated food to a friend’s freezer in bel air 2, which somehow was spared the extended brownouts th rest of manila had to endure.

I did however forget to turn off the flame while heating up some baked beans. four hours later the beans looked like fossilized remains dug up from the la brea tarpits. had to chuck the lot, pan and all.

Signal no. 4?? i didn’t even know there was such a thing. wild.

hey MM, three (3) fridges? a bit OTT don’t you think? hehe

By: Ria

Ria — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:17:12 +0000

I recall thinking that Milenyo could be a huge storm after hearing that it would hit 110kmh. That was after I recalled (from grade school) that Signal No. 1 is raised up at 60kmh. (I figured Signal 2 at 80? Then 3 at 100?) Imagine, grade school Araling Panlipunan on PAGASA was my reference.

I would remember this storm as one that made me climb up to the 24th floor by the fire escape stairs.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:40:32 +0000

The list given by Joanne is very useful. I agree that every household should have emergency food stock, a first aid kit and other items each member of the household might need in the event of a calamity and/or evacuation.