Free Lunch

Taina, owner, Ronnie

For those of you who know me well, you know I find joy in free lunches.  My cousin Ronnie and I lucked out on a free lunch yesterday.  We were getting ready to go to Manila when we saw this event.  Lunch included jello salad, beef stew, fish nuggets, fresh lumpia which are eggrolls.  They're called fresh because it is not fried.  The meat is cooked ahead of time and the veggies can be eaten raw.  Of course there was rice.

We were given gifts of t-shirt and umbrella.  Before we left I thanked the owner for the free lunch.  He told me it took two years of negotiations with city officials before he was able to build this gas station.  I congratulated him on his perseverance.