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As a proud member of the crazy Asian community, I will be introducing you to my top 10 favorite Filipino foods. This week's entry is inspired by the Jollibee incident of 2021. Context: the Westfield mall in Wheaton recently opened a Jollibee, which is a popular Filipino restaurant. We immediately picked up the phone to order, and we were put on hold, forced to listen to a song worse than Baby Shark (yes, it was that bad), for 45 minutes. Finally, when we were able to order, I asked for halo halo, only to discover THEY DON'T SERVE HALO HALO AT THAT LOCATION. In conclusion, we have yet to find some good Filipino food in Maryland. Note II : Click on this  link  to hear the song I had to suffer through for an hour Note : Almost every Filipino dish is eaten with rice. Not the tiny sticky rice dome they serve at Outback Steakhouse, but a lot of rice.  10. Adobo Adobo is the unofficial national dish of the Philippines. It is usually chicken or pork cooked in a sauce with vinegar...

From Stephen King horror novels, to Stephanie Meyer romances, to JK Rowling fantasies, to classics like Great Expectations, I've read almost any genre there is. However, I take quite a significant interest in historical fiction. Specifically, books about the Holocaust. I'm not sure what exactly I find so compelling about these books. It might be the terrifying fact that the events of the Holocaust really happened in a real place to real people. Reading a gory fictional thriller is never truly scary, when I know it isn't real. That might be why books based on events of the Holocaust tend to invoke a real fear. A cold, blood-curdling fear that no Stephen King novel could replicate. Without further ado, here are my top 5 favorite Holocaust novels. Fair Warning: These books can be extremely graphic, and I cried reading every single one of them.  5. Maus: Art Spiegelman Maus is a graphic novel, written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman. The story follows Spiegelman's intervi...