Baye-Baye Ice Cream!

I knew, coming to Iloilo for the celebration of National Filipino Food Month, that I will be eating a lot. Before coming here, I conditioned myself that whenever I’d be offered something to eat here, it was my duty to say, yes. So yeah, I’ve been having a feast thus far, which is just Iloilo CIty being true to its designation as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy.



But you know what I love so far? The baye-baye ice cream at the Happy Endings ice cream shop near Molo Plaza, which our guides took us to tonight on a spur of the moment, a detour that made my day. Remember the grumpy food critic Anton Ego in the Pixar film Ratatouille when he takes a bite of the titular dish, and gets transported to fond memories of childhood? The exact same thing happened to me. I took one teaspoon of the ice cream, and I was a child again in Bayawan, eating baye-baye.

This was a wonderful treat.