I wish it were true of everyone! The funny part of it is, I already know that these are the people who are going to contact me in a week or two and say, “You didn’t make any effort to see me while you were in New York, what’s up with that?” I figure, my effort was coming halfway across the world and laying out a schedule of where I’m going to be and when and leaving it as an open invite… beyond that, those who want to join me are just going to have to do a little “efforting” on their side.

There are plenty of better Filipino restaurants in New York, and Queens in particular, and when i lived here I often went. But, with limited time to get out to eat on a few day visit, that’s just not going to happen.