When I lived in Cebu, my fridge was always full of eggs 🐧

When I lived in Cebu, my fridge was full of eggs.

I had this idea in my head that getting enough protein matters.

But if you want protein in Cebu, the first thing is meat, and both the chicken and the pork have a bit of a smell to them compared to the meat you can buy in a supermarket back home.

There are also quite a lot of bones in it, which made it hard to eat.

So I never really felt like cooking the meat myself.

Which is how I ended up eating eggs all the time in Cebu.

The eggs, I did cook myself. Mostly, I just made fried eggs.

I always bought eggs in trays of 30.

There was a fairly well known shopping mall nearby called Ayala, and inside Ayala Center Cebu there's a store called Metro.

I was basically buying up their eggs.

Before I knew it, the fridge was packed with them.

Back then, I genuinely believed the number of eggs in my fridge was the same as my number of lives in real life.

Like in a Mario game, I felt this tension that if the number of eggs ever hit zero, I might actually die in the real world, so I always kept my fridge stocked with eggs.

Because eggs are a superfood. As long as I have eggs, life will somehow work out.