January 17 was a good day for me. It's not everyday that you get to spend at most 3 hours just eating different types of sandwiches and enjoying the company of your class. There were 6 groups (+1 ultra expert chef)who attempted to be the "fanciest" of them all, and here they are as follows:

We were the first to present, FANCYLOG, and am sure we made quite the impression because of our name. It pioneered a few of the others presentations as they kept blabbering that theirs was the most "fancy" but i believe nothing beats the original! It's even integrated in our name :D

I believe we came up with the idea of mixing two cultures into one, mainly French and Filipino. We have one groupmate(Lou) and she was from there basically. We wanted to initially integrate the culture of food that every Filipino would know, which is the ulam(viand) plus sinangag(garlic/fried rice) and itlog (egg), very breakfast-y in every manner. Jiggy came up with the idea of putting something fancy from France which was tapenade. Most of the Filipino breakfast food are salty and decided that it would blend well with the tapenade(but with the recipe from Lou, but still salty). As for the name, Lou came up with it, thinking of it randomly and i instantly fell in love with the name. 


Next comes the FILI(PINO) CHEESE STEAK. I did not try their sandwhich because they trash talked our group by saying theirs was fancier... nuff said.. on another note, their sandwhich was a Filipino version of the famous Philly Cheese Steak. But instead of steak, they used longanissa(Local sausage) and some fancy Holland cheese! some said it was okay, but some said it didn't blend well. Given that the longanissa was sweet/salty and the cheese was kind of bland for the sandwhich.


BREAKFAST CLUB offered a similar idea as us, something for the morning. What made me think differently was that they presented it as something really healthy but contained bacon, avocado, and cheese, very fattening food. But as soon as I tried it, it was okay, nothing special, but did remind me of the usual clubhouse sandwiches i occasionally eat.


THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT was something original to me, but knew it was pirated from the very start. It was something super bad and evil but still we ingest things like those. The bun they used was a original krispy kreme donut and the fillings was the usual patty, bacon, and cheese. I was susceptible at first to trying it out but it tasted pretty well. I like how it was first sweet then salty afterwards, it was a treat for my palette. Two things i did not like from their sandwich though, the patty could have been a bit meatier or saltier, theirs was bland and sort of ruined the mood of the experience. Next was that the bacon was poorly cooked, it was too oily and would have been sooooo much better if it was crispy.


NAKAKA-LOKO's group had an exchange student from Germany (German Rolls made it obvious) but retracted their name after remembering it. They kept mentioning how theirs was the fanciest of them all and true enough, i thought it deserved to be called fancy. They had two kinds of ham, relish, and coco jam. It gave a really foreign taste because of the ham's taste when it mixes with the jam. I liked how fresh it seemed because of the idea of using jam with meat when I usually just put it with bread. It mixed well with the other ingredients and i liked it best, next to FANCYLOG of course!


The last group was the most O_O (emoticon) of them all in my opinion. BUFF DUDE has this idea of mashing all sorts of meat into the sandwich to give some kind of monster meal idea. I believe they used spam, bacon, beef patties, and a few more. Then proceeded to add peanut butter, ketchup, and mustard. My mouth was very confused as i didn't like eating all sorts of meat at once and one of the wth taste was when they used wheat bread in it. The bread did not go so well with the sandwich and could have been much better if they used a bun.


The chef on the otherhand prepared something the night before and it was fantastic. He made a kani-salad-with-dilis-and-cavier ultra sandwich. Given that he used mayo (which none of the groups did), it made the sandwich very juicy. he used a buttload of stuff which made the sandwich look very stacked and appealing, only giving problems to those who try to cut it. The sandwich from the ocean is something i won't forget that easily because it's one of the firsts I've tried that contained caviar in it. Truly a fancy masterpiece.


-Raymond Yam 


p.s. apologies for not providing fancy food critic stuff. I usually just put anything in my mouth and say if its good or bad. this has been the furthest i've been with giving a food review. xiexie!