CONVENIENTLY YOURS – Mini Stop is a haven for on-the-go, lazy cheapskates.
Lunch time and there’s no maid, no food, no money? Head over to the convenience store and grab their fried siomai meal for under P50. Available in pork, beef and sharksfin, it comes with rice and a small cup of orange juice.
It’s nothing special. It’s like any other fried siomai around—oily and with tough siomai wrapper, especially if you order it at night and they cooked it first thing in the morning. The toyomansi is a little too salty, and the sticky orange sauce in that little packet doesn’t do much (you can also ask for chili oil instead of the orange sauce).
And oh, the orange juice tastes like water.
That’s what you get for P50.
I’ll still go back for it the next time I’m hungry and the maid is out, there’s no food and payday’s still an eternity away.
