At that exact moment, the people of the CNMI turned their attention to a much more important matter, the recent opening of Taco Bell...and no, I'm not kidding.
This has been the biggest thing to hit the CNMI since the shelling we got from the US during World War II.
It is estimated that about 3000 people showed up for the recent Unity March. The best guess for the Martin Nievera concert hovers around 10,000. From what I have been told, over 25,000 crashed through the gates of Taco Bell on their first day of business.
OK, now I'm kidding.But seriously, EJ and I went to Taco Bell this morning and the line was practically out the door. It wasn't even lunch time!
Who knew Chamorros and Filipinos loved Mexican food so much?!?!
They've got everything one would expect at Taco Bell, but it seemed a lot more expensive than it should have been. A hard shell beef taco was $1.29. Doesn't that seem expensive?
Oh well, that didn't stop us. I got some hard tacos and chalupas and EJ got a steak burrito and some nachos. The whole thing came out to $14.76. Again, doesn't that seem kind of expensive for Taco Bell?
There was no available seating at the restaurant, so EJ and I decided to take our food to the beach. We found a nice little concrete picnic table at American Memorial Park and sat down to our feast.
American Memorial Park is Saipan's only National Park. How many people get to go to Taco Bell and then eat it in a National Park? We had a nice time sitting by the beach watching the kite surfers and the windsurfers.Nothing says romance like Taco Bell, let me tell you.
What else can I say about the Bell? It tasted just like it tastes in America and I look forward to paying them many, many dollars to help me expand my waste line in the next several months.
3 commented:
I LOVE Taco Bell! I've been there several times now and have had the steak Chalupa's, hard taco's, soft taco's, quesadilla and I tried a bite of the beef burrito. It all tasted exactly like Taco Bell on Guam to me. The only thing I noticed was the hard taco's seemed super oily and got soggy real fast. By the time I got home from Taco bell to eat them, they seemed more like soft taco's...But as far as fast food goes, Taco Bell Rocks!
Me gusta Taco Bell tambien
my friend, a podiatrist, told me that whenever a patient came in after lunch with gout-induced pain, she'd ask where they had eaten, and 9 times out of 10 the answer was "taco bell."
seriously, i heart me some crispy tacos, but there's some serious saturated fat in there.
also, we pay $1.09 for a taco here, which i think is 9-10 cents more than the mainland. considering all the things involved, 30 cents seems like a lot, but 10 cents travel costs from guam to saipan doesn't seem so bad.
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