Pretty Sinful

It's past 1 a.m. and I'm craving for pizza and ice cream. Not too satisfied with the pancit canton I ate for dinner. But that’ll have to do, I guess, since I’m sleeping in a bit.

Was finally able to try out a slice of Sbarro’s Chicago Deep Dish Pizza last Tuesday. Hm. It was thick and real meaty. Yeah, it’s actually meat pie; it had slices and bits of, if I’m not mistaken, pepperoni sausages, ham and other similar toppings. But these were all compressed inside over an inch-thick pie, with tomato sauce and cheese topping its upper crust (or whatever you call it). I had to see what the fuss was all about. It tastes pretty much like your typical meat-lover’s flavored pan pizza to me, like you took two big slices and pressed their upper parts onto each other. It’s not something I’d regularly eat, though, because it has more meat than I’d like in one serving. And the price, for me, makes it for special occasions only.

Speaking of food, Bodhi has the shrimp okoy mimicked with their new crunchy vegemeat product. It looks, tastes and feels the same, except for the part where your mouth gets pricked by shrimp casings (or shells? I dunno). It’s okay. Okay okoy. But I hope they make bigger servings.

Enjoyed Chowking’s Halo-Halo Fiesta a few days ago. It has two small ice cream scoops (melon and ube flavors) and the usual toppings, like banana slices, ube, leche flan, beans, sago, pinipig, and kaong. Yummy summer dessert. Gah, it’s late and I’m still thinking of food.

Pretty Evil

Some of TV’s pretty faces of evil: Desperate Housewives’ Andrew (Shawn Pyfrom, above) and 24’s Mandy (Mia Kirshner, below). Andrew is the malevolent gay son of control freak Bree Van De Kamp (Marcia Cross). In season 2, the war between homophobic mother and rebellious child escalates, with Andrew relentlessly manipulating his boyfriend (played by Ryan Carnes) to make her snap. But he gets meaner with every appearance, and continues to be one of the show’s more intriguing scheming characters. Obsessive Bree, however, isn’t without tricks up her well-pressed sleeve.

Bisexual assassin Mandy, meanwhile, is a recurring villainess in 24. She’s blown up a plane in the first season, targeted the president in the second, and staged an impromptu hostage situation in the fourth. Hope she reappears in season five. Super CTU agent Bauer needs more deadly, resourceful enemies like her.