It was my first time to go to 168 Mall in Divisoria. I rarely go to downtown Manila coz it's too far away from my house and the constant traffic isn't doing a very good job of attracting people like us who just prefer to buy our goods at malls and department stores.
We dropped of Anne at school before braving Taft further to the northwest and wading around jeepneys who have their own loading and unloading zone. It was still early, around 8am so parking wasn't difficult. Mom wanted to buy a specific bag and we ended up buying clothes for me and my cousins and some bags/wallets. In the end, we gave up on our search.. I was getting dizzy from the "tiangge hallucination" effect which means, getting a pounding headache trying to go back to where you were 5 minutes ago. We were still able to buy a bag that's really nice and unique (I've never seen that style before).
I then realized I'm not much of a haggler. The best haggler in the family was the more experienced member, dad. He would command the rates of the goods he would buy from Tutuban and Divisoria. Galing! Basta ako mura na, kakagatin ko na. hehehe.
It was still early, around 1020 but my throat was already scratchy from the dust from all the piles of merchandise being setup. Buena mano kasi kami. =P Mom decided we eat lunch at Savory, which was a very old school restaurant. She said the last time she ate there was when she was in college (go 1970s!~). We went in and it felt like I was back in time. It looked like 1980s at the most with the old school chairs, tables and design. Na-miss ko tuloy yung style ng 70s and 80s.
The chicken was good, especially their gravy. Their pancit canton had the classic Pinoy style of being very saucy and really tasty. It's been a long time since I ate this kind of pancit. The price was very cheap too! We had to-go food good for 1 more person for only around 400 pesos! Sobrang sulit!
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