An Adventure Worth Taking: Going Back to My Roots
My grandmother, just arrived from Quezon, opens a multi-colored bayong and I wait in anticipation. From the woven bag peeks out tiny, shiny shells with even tinier feet wiggling. Often food, sometimes pets, kimpi (crablets, or more known in Tagalog as talangka) are an indelible part of my childhood. My lola and kimpis are inseparable in my memory, as she used to bring…