Today, I was ninong to a little baby boy named Glenn Corvin. He is the third boy in the family of two college classmates. The bunyag was at St. Joseph the Worker church and reception at home so it was, ahem, full of homemade dishes consisting mostly of Ilonggo delicacies.
So what made this warning? Aside from having another set of lechon skin (additional 3 pieces; 1x1 inch) and fat (never had the "non-fat" part due to excitement), I indulged in too much dessert, 3 cups of buko salad, almost half a llanera of leche flan and a slice chocolate cake.
Anyway, during fiestas or restaurant buffet meals, I never eat rice (though sometimes 2-3 spoons) for I just stack up on the meat and vegetables.
So let's see what my plate looked like. I had valenciana for I cannot resist those crunchy pork bits. I immediately "accepted" the very inviting karne prita. I had fried chicken for a taste test. I waved back to the waving estofado by having two slices. My dinuguan-craving was satisfied with a cupful (minus the puto, of course there wasn't any). And topping it all off is the usual centerpiece of any celebration, the lechon.
All were of the usual taste I have grown up with but I'd say the best was the lechon! It had this melts-in-your-mouth fat and skin combination to DIE (no pun intended) for. Aside from the perfectly roasted whole lechon (skin was light dark brown without any hint of being sunog anywhere), the skin was very thin and crunchy unlike most lechons I had that were mahunit (almost rubbery) and the fat (clinging to the skin) was very thin. Of course, I wouldn't let this opportunity pass by without knowing where they ordered this roasted pig.
It was an Oton-based lechon house that goes with the named Bitong's. Knowing where they bought it had me excited since I have a new suggestion (which I will really enforce lol) where to get one at home during fiestas or any celebration.
So what made this warning? Aside from having another set of lechon skin (additional 3 pieces; 1x1 inch) and fat (never had the "non-fat" part due to excitement), I indulged in too much dessert, 3 cups of buko salad, almost half a llanera of leche flan and a slice chocolate cake.
Not having rice, no-soft drinks-only-water for drink and standing "ovation" after eating couldn't have possibly balanced what I indulged in for lunch today, that's why I bought a box of C-lium fiber to be taken in the next few days.
Guilty!