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Krispy Kreme Donuts
Posted on February 21, 2003 by Ching under Food and Drink.
Dunkin is out, Krispy Kreme is in! Welcome the new era of donuts.. I remember back in my high school days in Las Pinas, my friends and I used to hang out at the local Dunkin Donuts. We used to call it D2 (read D-squared). We were nerds like that. We shared a lot of fun times there. And even just watching my friend Mickey eat a whole box of munchkins (the little donut middles; I don’t know what they’re called, I just always called them munchkins). I don’t even know if they make those anymore. 
Anyway, Brian and I will just have serious donut cravings from time to time and the generic grocery store variety ain’t cuttin’ it anymore so we had to look for a good donut place. Did you know that all the Dunkin Donuts in town have vanished? I don’t know what is up with that.. I didn’t think they were that bad. But I guess Krispy Kreme has ushered in a new era of donuts. Shoot we really didn’t care where we got our kicks but I gotta admit Krispy Kreme has a lot of plusses. First off, the best time to go is right when they close (they used to be open 24 hours but I guess they didn’t find that profitable), from 10:30 to 11:00 PM. Brian and I have found the few times that we’ve gone around this time that the red sign outside has been lit. You know what that means. Free donuts baby! Well they give you a free glazed donut (pictured left) anyway. Last night we had talked about just going through the drive-thru but when we got there the sign was lit and Brian got all excited. He goes, let’s go in! 
I gave in. Who cared if I looked like crap from hanging out at the house all evening? Free donuts is free donuts. Their store is actually pretty neat. Brian and I discussed actually bringing our camera to take pictures next time we go. Yeah, we’re real nerds like that. But it’s so cool. Have you ever seen a donut being manufactured before? It’s really neat! You get to watch everything right there as it happens. 
And then of course their donuts are the best! When they opened their first store in town there were lines out the wazoo and I didn’t know what the fuss was all about. To me, donuts were pretty much all the same. But then I had their donuts, which are just melt-in-your-mouth (literally) delicious! I was hooked ever since. Our favorite is the chocolate-glazed custard-filled variety, shown right. Brian and I are so compatible we even like the same kind of donut. They have lots of other great flavors but this is the one that we always order. We’ll eat the free donut of course but we only buy the chocolate-glazed custard-filled kind. So anyway, I had a couple of donuts last night and another two this morning for breakfast (if you want to know how much damage that’s done, check out the Krispy Kreme nutritional fact sheet and feel sorry for me). I didn’t work out at all this week like I was supposed to so you’ll probably hear me whine about being fat for the next few days. I’ll try not to blog about it but I’m not making any guarantees!
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Cosmic Bowling
Posted on February 9, 2003 by Ching under Family, Food and Drink.
Kevin decided that Brian and I (because we are such hermits, specially now that we are watching movies through internet downloads — we are coming out to celebrate vday next saturday by doing a two-movie extravaganza: Daredevil during the day at the balcony, it’s reserved seating so we won’t have to fight the crowds, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in the evening so we are both pacified, one for him and one for me but I don’t think dinner at Restaurant 155 is in the cards because after purchasing our vday gifts to each other we are both semi-broke, we’ll see though) deserved a night out so he treated us to cosmic bowling at Thunderbird Lanes.. The photos below are an account of the experience.
Kevin told us that we didn’t have to be there until a little before eleven thirty (when the fun actually starts) so Brian decided to play The Getaway while I was getting ready. He actually got past the point that he’s been working on for the last two weeks now. However, he’s now stuck at another frustration point. I could never get into that game. I hated GTA3 and GTA: Vice City(two of Brian’s most favorite games).. And I really hated Max Payne. Even Brian admits that one was crappy (shouldn’t have bought it, just because it looks cool in tv commercials doesn’t mean it actually is).
For those of you who don’t know, Chris is the new girl in Kevin’s life (recently promoted to girlfriend status, I might add). If you thought Stephanie was it (after all, she caught the bouquet and he caught the garter at our wedding — how much more perfect could it be — it was so perfect, even I thought it was rigged), well so did we.. Things just didn’t work out, unfortunately.
Brian was kind of hungry after exerting himself more than usual and I don’t ever really pass up the opportunity to eat so we decided to stop at Burger King on the way home. Their fries are nasty but they offer one of my guilty pleasures: cheese whopper with bacon, no pickles and onions. Whoppers are the best, man! Other burgers just don’t compare. Brian and I actually had this discussion once about how all fast-food burgers are the same. He says they’re all microwaved. I told him no, Burger King whoppers are special. Could he not taste the difference? It’s flame-broiled, I insist. He just shakes his head. It says so in the commercials! There is no point arguing with me. Anyway, I guess I should probably take my own advice and not believe every tv commercial out there.. But the taste! It’s so good! Anyway, we ended up watching Serving Sarah while we ate. It couldn’t really keep me a awake. Then again, I can’t fault the movie completely. We were watching it at around three in the morning.. It’s just that the movie itself wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be. Good thing we didn’t pay for it! LOL!
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