All I want is ISAW!!!! NOW!!!

I feel like I am going crazy right now. I thought I was done with the first trimester and I am almost home free from morning sickness and craving. Oh yes I am done with the morning sickness but it was replaced by extreme cravings. It gets a bit frustrating that what I crave for this very moment, or I would say since last midnight was ISAW. When ISAW crossed my mind while I was doing my nightly prayer before going to sleep, I was immensely distracted. My mind started to reminisce the good old times in UP while waiting for the ISAW's to be cooked. I am such a big eater when it comes to ISAW. I could finish more than 25 sticks of various ISAW at one time. Then we will transfer to another ISAW stand because their chicken ISAW is better. You know that each vendor has its specialty. Darn thinking more about it in detail makes me extremely hungry. I never cared about the bacteria scare. If it is not clean then a lot of people mostly UP students would have been sick long before.

Right now is extremely difficult for me when it comes to satisfying my craving. I guess I am in the Filipino food mode. But not just any Filipino food. I have pakbet sitting on top of the stove right now but that's not what I want to eat anymore. I finished a whole kaldero full of Chicken Tinola a couple of days ago. I cooked Menudo, Adobo, Sinigang,  Tortang Talong and a lot more. So I am done with those basic Filipino dishes.  I hope someone could just at least understand the feeling I am having.  I want ISAW in the middle of Boulder, Colorado, a place with very few Asians and mostly white people. Even if Boulder is so gorgeous with all respect, now I feel like that it is a wrong place to be in for a pregnant person born and raised in the Philippines. Cravings for ISAW can be a serious issue in all aspects. So even if I get access to ISAW right this very moment, the ambiance of  eating ISAW in UP is not going to be replicated here. Although Boulder may seem to be like UP Los Banos in many angles, still who would eat ISAW with me with all gusto and to-die-for feeling like I have.

How can I get my hands to those very delicious ISAW dipped in slightly spicy vinegar filled with garlic and onions?

I was trying to explain in very simple and plain English what this I am feeling. Ok, I craved for steak and mashed potato early on. It was very easy, there are like tons of restaurants serving that over here. But all I want is ISAW and it has to be now. The need to satisfy is extremely important. Not even a prime cut steak could take out this craving.

So my mind works like a crazy scientist trying to look for a solution. They obviously are not selling chicken gut or pig intestines anywhere here. Unlike in Divisoria where they sell bags of uncooked ISAW.  Of course, they would throw that away here. It is not approved by the Food Board as safe to be consumed.  And even if I would ask the local butcher shop they are not allowed to sell it to anybody or else they would get a bad evaluation. But who would know? And much worse they would only think I am crazy. Fine! Do I just buy a live chicken and kill it to extract it guts out? No! This is Boulder goodness gracious. I am still logical and sensible in some ways if not most even if I am under the spell of isaw. Actually, I have not met a single Filipino in my months of stay here and if my neighbors see me kill a chicken and excitedly take out the guts and barbecue it, they would only think Filipinos are crazy. They might call the animal rights society or something. Then I am screwed.

So what should I do? I am just boiling eggs now. Maybe it would immediately kill the hunger and I will just deal with this mind over matter internally and hopefully soon it would go away. The power of the mind is surely stronger than any of these hormonal imbalances taking over me.

Oh yeah that's right, I will cook tokwa't baboy and pritong lumpia that would take my mind away the ISAW that I am dying to eat right now!I sure hope it works.

I promise, when I get back to Manila by next year, I will set aside one day just for ISAW DAY! All my friends are invited and it's on me. I will binge on ISAW and no one can stop me eat all the ISAW I missed all these years. I just hope the manong would have enough ISAW for that day!

I love you ISAW!!! I trully miss you!

Comments

[Oda]

Apple dear,
Now i wonder how in the world i can FEDEX u some isaw...heehee..u're a mommy-to-be,dear friend!!!that's just wonderful,really! so who's the lucky guy? i'm sorry,i haven't gone thru ur account updates so i know nothing of the latest. from my end, i'll be flying back to cosmic Sg next month and settle with Rodes there. It's been 2 years of packing & unpacking so i look forward so very eagerly to finally spending sane time with my hubby of 3months.
Take good care and God bless us:)
love,ate o

[Chi]

BrAvO! BRaVo!

Isaw-Pinoy brought out the guts in your descriptive talents.

That entertained me and got my jaws into a hearty exercise.

More! More!

Tita cHi

[Hershey]

Ms.Chan, padala ako ng isaw for you! ilan gusto mo?