Unli Grace

The word unli, slang for unlimited, is a Filipino-invented word and is now a part of our country's everyday vocabulary. 

Anyone who has a cellphone knows what it means, because the word was first introduced by a telecommunications company via a heavily advertized promotion of unli calls within a certain period for a fixed fee.

Unli has since been used by some restaurants as well—unli rice, a welcome treat for Filipino diners who can't live without rice at breakfast, lunch, dinner and sometimes at snack time, too.

Now, there are places where one can also have unli tea, unli soda, unli anything.

But it was the unli rice that hooked our only grandson Adrian, who stayed with us for one week, while his parents were off to some place, during their short vacation in the Philippines. After we introduced him to various Filipino dishes, he took to chicken inasal (grilled over hot coals while being basted with a marinade). He loved it so so much, he had unli rice up to five servings in one restaurant! No  morsel was left in his plate.

Seeing him enjoy Filipino food and having him with us for seven days was unli grace. 

  

Son #1 gifted Adrian with a packet of chicken inasal marinade. We're sure his mom would find time to cook him this Filipino favorite with unli rice!

The little fellow is now back in the US with his parents, but each time we pass by a restaurant serving chicken inasal with unli rice, we laugh and remember how he ate like there was no tomorrow.

And we miss him so.