Dome Cafe

Today, we came back to Makati Med for the sugar challenge test, something like, your sugar is monitored every hour for the next 3 hours after drinking that sweet almost-cola flavored drink. The term is OGTT test with the first blood sample was collected at 9am. Three more blood vials will be collected every hour thereafter. I flinched at the idea of a needed and syringed sucking blood out from my arm. Thank God, it's not me going through the test.

Three hours is quite long to sit around in the hospital corridor and I had finished reading todays news and had to re-read some articles out of boredom. You cannot help also but people-watch as droves and droves of people pass you by in the hospital corridor. I used to formulate a theory that most doctors are white skinned. With the number of doctors or doctor-looking individuals that come and go, my theory has been 100% supported. I based this theory on hypothesis that white people tend to have more money than their brown skinned counterparts (this is only true in the Philippines) and studying to become a doctor requires a lot of money. Besides, being white skinned equates to looking more clean and a doctor has to exude that cleanliness thingy. I used to tease Lani, my wife, that I don't like going to a dark skinned doctor as that doctor seemed so dirty and shabby.

Of course, this theory is only drawn for fun and hold no water of validity at all. It keeps my sanity and lets me get pre-occupied while in a state of boredom while waiting for a doctor. My wife would love to challenge this theory, but for every doctor that we saw passing us by, no dark-skinned doctor ever came to pass. She was so frustrated trying to prove me wrong.

Anyways, we finished the test at around 12noon. My God, we are expected to come back again for the discussion of the results with our Endocrinologist the following day. This will be my first 3 consecutive days of presence in Makati Med.

Lani is not happy to get lunch at Floating Island. She is so hungry having been not allowed intake of food or water since last night's dinner. Just a dumb question, why does blood tests require food abstinence for something like 8 hours prior to the test; some test require 12 hours fasting, grrr... I should be a scientist or inventor for a machine that can do blood test with results as accurate without requiring the patient to fast at all.

Anyways, so much for my frustations in life. I told my wife about a restaurant at the back of Makati Med, Dome Cafe. She was familiar with the place and she was excited to eat something, she's thinking, why not some salad. Well, she is on a less sugar diet, so salad is such a good idea. Dome was almost full when we reached it. Had a small vacant table in a corner and ordered a seafood aioli and cheese wands. Cheese wands are cheese sticks; this maybe Harry Potter inspired as it's listed under Kids Menu.

The seafood aioli was dry and almost boring to look to at. I asked for freshly grated parmesan cheese and tossed the salmon bits, squid rings, shrimps, tomato and the spaghetti pasta together with the cheese. I should say, it lacked the much needed olive oil to coat the pasta with a gloss so it shines. The noodles was soggy, not al dente, although the overall taste of the dish was good. The accompanying garlic french bread was lighly toasted and was good to the bite.

I like the cheese sticks with a cheese dip. It came in hot and fresh and was good to the bite. I became too pre-occupied with my pasta, I forgot about the cheese sticks. I should remember the next time around, cheese sticks are meant to be eaten while its hot as when it gets cold, it doesn't taste as good. I had to labor so much to eat the last portions of the cheese sticks at the end of my meal.

Well, I should say, I had a good lunch. Dome Cafe offers not just pasta dishes, but sandwiches, rice meals, pizza, desserts and cakes as well. Coffee is also good at Dome.

I spent around Php550.00 or US$12.20 for my meal today.