Your mention of mangoes took me back to my first, and sadly, only visit to the 🇵🇭. My father was a Pan Am pilot and I accompanied him on his flight. For all his years of world travel, he said the mangoes in Manila were the very best he’d ever eaten. And boy were they. Mangoes and flan were the only thing I ate at the breakfast buffet. Fifty years later I can still remember that heady, tropical scent.
Thank you so much for reading! And I love that it sent you into your own sense memories. How cool to get to travel with your dad as a kid. I have never tasted anything like those Manila mangos since--it's a whole different fruit, and for sure, the aroma take over your whole body. Thanks for sharing!
Your mention of mangoes took me back to my first, and sadly, only visit to the 🇵🇭. My father was a Pan Am pilot and I accompanied him on his flight. For all his years of world travel, he said the mangoes in Manila were the very best he’d ever eaten. And boy were they. Mangoes and flan were the only thing I ate at the breakfast buffet. Fifty years later I can still remember that heady, tropical scent.
Thank you so much for reading! And I love that it sent you into your own sense memories. How cool to get to travel with your dad as a kid. I have never tasted anything like those Manila mangos since--it's a whole different fruit, and for sure, the aroma take over your whole body. Thanks for sharing!