Happy Birthday, Nanay
Today would have been my mother’s eighty second birthday. Just like any another Filipino, she made it a point to make pansit during occasions like these. Pansit, which is a Filipino noodle dish, is mostly eaten at birthday celebrations in the hope of celebrating more of it. Little did we know that the pansit she ate last year would be her last one. So much for misleading superstitions. In any case, she still cooked the dish even if she was the main celebrant. Her hobby was cooking. This was how she would usually pass time especially after she migrated to the US. She did not have much to do being stuck at home. Hindi pwedeng nakaupo lang s’ya buong araw (She cannot be idle the whole day), hence she diverted all her energy in the kitchen and perfected Filipino dishes, even those complicated ones. She became famous for her pork barbecue on skewers and crispy O...
