my mom could be a rapper if she wanted to be

so i'm eating lunch at ongpin with my auntie and my mom, and just for conversation's sake, i ask about my tocino, "this stuff is expensive back home, huh?"

and they my auntie goes, "yea, all meat is expensive... i remember when we were little and we used to have rice and coconut milk for breakfast... and for dinner we would have rice and a raw egg."

and then my mom goes, "oh yea... i forgot about that" and she has this look of realization on her face, like she just remembered what is used to be like growing up back home in the philippines.

as usual, the servings at ongpin are tremendous, so when i finish all my rice, even though i had a piece of tocino with every spoonful of rice, i still have a fair amount of meat left on my plate. my auntie then looks at my plate and laughs, "that meat you have left on your plate would feed our whole family"