I miss the old pasta they used to serve at my high school canteen. They had lots to choose from, it was hella cheap too - for P50 you would get a generous serving of pasta and garlic bread (from French Baker, no less). They served this one pasta dish, I don’t know what it was called but the nice old lady who cooked it called it ‘Sun-kissed pasta’. Its sauce was orange colored oil, had lots of bacon, garlic, and green onion. The sauce was tangy and a bit salty, it was not greasy and didn’t leave the aftertaste of overused oil. This was one of the reasons why I’d always be excited to go to school back then. I ate there every fucking day in high school. I’m kinda craving for it now, sadly, I don’t think there’s a recipe for it online (anyone familiar with the recipe? for the sauce at least, it’d be awesome and I will love you forever).

One day I heard news from a friend who is still in HS that they shut them down for unknown reasons. I was like, “WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY DO THAT?” as I raged. Apparently, the only food they serve there now was shitty, generic Zaide canteen fare (contracted by La Salle schools), which they often boycotted. 

Good, cheap food is hard to come by these days, especially around the university campus. There are lots to choose from, albeit being expensive, and that automatically removes itself as a choice for me since I’m living on a really tight budget. Nothing quite satisfies me more than the aforementioned pasta place. Why must restaurant/food establishment owners, cafeteria contractors, etc. take advantage of the false notion that most DLSU students have stuffed wallets? We have it as bad as them and we’re not even working yet, but they continue to milk us of even just the small amount of money we’re forced to live on each day.

*Sigh* I guess I’ll just shut up and eat pancit canton at Agno… /cheapassmode