Lucky Plaza

When I came here in Singapore 2 years ago I felt homesick as soon as I arrived. It got worse since I had to stay in a hotel for 2 weeks and the only food that I could afford, at that time, were from hawkers and kopitiams. It's not that the food was bad but the taste was just very different from what I'm used to eat.

No one told me (well that's because i didn't know any Filipinos at that time) that there's this 'Mall for Filipinos' and that they have lots of turoturo stalls, if I may call it, that serves Filipino food at reasonable price of 5 SGD. I only learned about it a month after. I was thrilled. A month without adobo, sinigang or tinola for me like food was like hunger strike. Anyway, the name of mall I'm talking about is Lucky Plaza. It's along side big shopping malls in Orchard. It's not a classy mall like it's neighbors but it's still my second best favorite place here in Singapore. Aside from the eateries, there are also mini-grocery shops in LP (as what we call it) that sells imported Filipino products (it's only here that we can call our own products IMPORTED-naks!). So when we found a permanent place to live in, we excitedly bought cooking tools and bought staple ingredients of Filipino food like toyo, suka, patis, pansigang, bagoong, alamang and started cooking our own food. Then there's the famous noodle junk food  Lucky Me Pancit canton (iba talaga kapag may MSG hahaha).

Now im not that homesick anymore!