TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: LBC Express Shipping and Filipino Comfort Food

Saturday, March 7, 2015

LBC Express Shipping and Filipino Comfort Food

Several times a year, I make a trip to LBC Express in Los Angeles to send boxes with donations to a priest whose parish is in Northern Cebu, Philippines.

It used to take a month by boat to get a package shipped from Los Angeles to the Philippines. Because of post-9/11 scrutiny, it now takes two months or more. The box is huge, measuring 17 by 18 by 28. If you're shipping by sea, weight is not an issue (volume is), and each box costs around $70 to ship.

Afterwards, I stopped by a Filipino restaurant for comfort food. It's called a "turo-turo" restaurant, which literally means "point-point." What it means is that food is pre-cooked and one just has to point at what one wants. Here are pictures of some Filipino dishes, including fish, noodles, and stews.

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Tags: Philippines, Filipino, shipping, LBC, door-to-door, #PhilippineShipping #FilipinoFood

This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.