The line at 6 a.m. is mostly Health Sciences Centre nurses in scrubs, waiting for pandesal still warm enough to fog the paper bag.
Get the ube, get the pork asado bun, get one of everything if you're smart. By 9 a.m. the shelves are half-empty and by noon the rice cakes are gone.
“Get the ube, get the pork asado bun, get one of everything if you're smart.”
The owner's daughter runs the espresso machine on weekends and she pulls a shockingly good cortado.