It
was one of those cool mornings, everybody woke up earlier than usual. You see
during public holidays, we usually sleep late the night before & wake up
even later. But this time all 3 of us was wide awake by 9am ! Since it was just
a 1 day holiday, there was no point packing the bags.
We
decided to go to one of our favorite places in the city, Monsees . We
discovered this beautiful “bakery” as Benz lovingly calls it, on one of our
trips to the hospital. Benz’s pedia was housed at Medical City Ortigas.
Dressed
with our usual shorts & t-shirt we gleefully drove out. We live in the
Novaliches-Caloocan Boundary, by Zip Code our place is North Caloocan, by
layman term we’re at the boundary of Bulacan. So imagine the drive from
somewhere near bulacan to whiteplains to go to the bakery LOL.
When
we got in, there was already another family having breakfast. We really love
Monsees from the inside out. The white paint, the window panes, the pastries,
the cakes . . . Benz asked for her usual coffee & peanut butter donut “and
coffee please”. Yes, she so bravely orders coffee every time we eat out, acting
like one of the grown up. This didn’t go unnoticed by her dad of course, “Hot
Chocolate for you, too early for coffee”. We ordered the house specialty
Longganisa. It was scrumptious! 
It
wasn’t like the usual Longganisa we are accustomed to. The one boiled &
caramelized. These guys were itsy bitsy & fried to a crisp ! Yes fried like
bacon. They were joined happily in our plate with a sunny side up for me and scrambled
for Ben, some sliced tomatoes & pickled papaya “atsara”. For condiment,
they gave us some spiced vinegar - yummy but they’re hush hush on what they
added to that simple cane vinegar. Secret of the house.
Some
brewed coffee & hard to resist cheese rolls for dessert was next. This
place is really so homey that whenever were here - time flies. We usually stay for
a min of 3 hours, maximum was sky’s the limit. Ben was already reading the
morning papers, & Benz was chit chatting with the whole restaurant staff, I
was simply enjoying 
P.S.
we also ordered some take-outs, the Spanish bread, spinach pie & some more
donuts for Benz . 
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