Kanin all you can!
January 10, 2009 by alex0825
It’s one of Tokyo-Tokyo’s successful draws for the hungry crowd: bottomless rice bowls. Order a meal and you can have as many rice as you want. Like anything free, it always brings a smile to my face (and doubtless, to countless rice-loving customers) because you know you’re getting a meal that’s really sulit.
Nowadays, though, we’re having all the rice that we need right at home - be it breakfast, lunch, dinner, or anytime in between. It’s a bountiful blessing coming from the palayan that’s now up and being maintained in Quezon. What we’re enjoying now are the fruits of but the first harvest last September. The next harvest is scheduled for late March or early April and we still have 6 sacks of palay remaining in the storeroom — more than enough to last for the next 6 months!
On certain still hours at home, i sometimes hover around the kitchen and look back to the times when Pam used to worry about our constantly dwindling weekly supply of rice. During the irrational country-wide rice shortage that occurred last summer it was no easy matter to always allot P200 every week (sometimes every 4-5 days) to buy 5 kilos of rice. It’s such a relief now to see that our small rice bin is always full. When i go to Quezon again this middle of January I’ll be bringing in a fresh batch of perhaps 100 kilos, which will last for about a month and a half.
This bounty is evident in our widening waistlines. Funny how I recall that, just over a year ago, I swore to skip eating rice because I needed to shed off the ‘07 holiday pounds that I gained so I could properly train myself back to my old badminton form. Now, everything’s been turned upside down. I’m not playing badminton anymore, and I’m gorging myself on rice. Even if I get home around 10 pm I’ll tend to consume at least two helpings of rice, never mind if I’ll be sleeping in two hours. For breakfast, there’s fried rice, which is even more delicious.
They say Buddha’s belly is a sign of plenty. Not that I’m complaining, but I hope none of us in the family end up that big…
