Pancho Pantera

James Bond as he has withstood the test of time.

I feel nostalgic for these 1970s TV shows:

Three's Company

Charlie's Angels

Happy Days

Welcome Back Kotter

WKRP in Cincinnati

M*A*S*H

CHiPS

Mork and Mindy

The Love Boat

Taxi

Fantasy Island

Little House on the Prairie

The Partridge Family

Kojak

Starsky and Hutch

The 6 Million Dollar Man

Bionioc Woman

and many others I can't remember. It's been a long time.

The CUP AND SAUCER restaurant in the old Sta Mesa Market (where SM Centerpoint and Sogo Hotel now stand).

They mostly served merienda items.

Their pancit luglug is the BEST I tasted ever, bar none.

Ditto with their adobo saucer sandwich, hence the restaurant's name.

Here I also first tasted the Palilios de Milan pastry. also unrivaled to this day.

Also the La Cibeles Spanish pastry shop which was found in the A. Mabini, Ermita with a branch in the old Manila Bank arcade in Greenhills. Dulcinea

was just a second-rate copy cat of this pastry shop. I can still taste their chocolate con churros unrivaled to this day. Their argellana melted in your

mouth unlike the Dulcinea version.

Sadly, like all Mom and Pop restaurants, they gave way to the emergence of the fast-food franchises. I think Cup and Saucer stopped operations

sometime in the 1970s. I last went to Cibeles in the early 1980s. They decided to close shop after the old Spanish owner passed away.