Say Cheese... Now Smile!

West Covina has a brand spanking new Jollibee on the corner of Amar and Azusa, across the street from Seafood City. It makes you think... "What took them so long." For those who aren't familiar with it, Jollibee is a fast food chain in the Philippines where they have burgers, fried chicken (with rice!), various filipino dishes, and spaghetti. In fact, practically all the fast food places there spaghetti on their menu... even McDonalds. Anyways, Carlene and I were planning on getting food over at the Chow King in the area, but once we parked... we saw the newly opened Jollibee across the street, so we really didn't have a choice.

"There are white people inside the Jollibee."
-Carlene in the car as we're parking

It was quite a shock to see ethnicities other than my own inside. I guess its probably a culture shock for them to walk in and order spaghetti that's sweeter than normal and contains hot dogs in the sauce (thats the Filipino way!) or ordering food that you really can't pronounce. I had the hardest time when I went to Mi Piace with Tam, Lisa, and Melissa trying to pronounce some of those Italian dishes, which resulted in all of us butchering the beautiful language and pointing to the menu for confirmation. When I'm in authentic Chinese restaurants, I'm so grateful that they have numbers right after their dishes. Life is so much easier.

Hmmm... on a completely different topic, if I hear Michael Jackson be referred to as the "KING OF POP" one more time, I'm gonna puke. Really, King of Pop? Still? Former King of Pop, yeah I can deal with that. I don't know if he's guilty or not (although if it were a question of guilt against him being creepy and weird... guilty guilty guilty!), but I know that if I had kids, I soooo wouldn't let them sleep in the same bed with him. King of Pop or not. (Hey, that rhymes! I can write country music and rap now!)