Posted the 01/07/2008 12:24:00 by Market Manila (visit website)

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By the third day in a new city, the frenetic tourist activity levels typically associated with days 1 and 2 starts to die down. We no longer feel compelled to do as much as we humanly can in each 24 hour period. An hour at this museum, a languid walk through a park, a little window shopping and a totally unstructured late lunch at a neighborhood taverna, watching the pedestrians go by... Knowing we had another 5 days in town, we quickly succumbed to a more relaxed pace of life. Even the food selection is less intense, we order by feel or desire, and in this case, no distinction between appetizers and main courses. We also order more judiciously, without wanting to taste the entire menu. At this lunch, we wipe out every single morsel of food between the three of us... To start, we had an utterly superb roasted eggplant salad. I believe it also had roasted red capsicum or bell peppers mashed along with it. The eggplant was denser than our watery versions here in manila, and I wonder if these were slow-baked eggplants rather than grill roasted eggplants... that way, the moisture would evaporate over a longer period and the remaining pulp would be more substantial than not. A very generous addition of terrific olive oil, and a whole loaf of crusty bread, and life was good indeed...

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