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People have different opinions about what drinks go best with what dish. A good beer or wine can pair with all kinds of food in a really swell way, and a nice cocktail is a lovely way to prepare for a good meal. Still, one dining adventure you want to avoid is a meeting with a policeman and his trusty breathalyzer or, much worse, a deadly car accident that would be, morally and legally, your fault. Drinking and driving really do not pair at all. The best way to handle the issue is to go the "designated driver" route and have someone in your party strictly assigned to do the driving and be an alcohol-eschewing teetotaler for the duration. Still, the reality is that, very often, the designated driver route is simply not in the cards. The trick is to time things out very carefully so that, by the time we're hitting the road, whatever alcohol we've consumed has mostly left our system and won't register badly on a breathalyzer. This should involve giving ourselves plenty of time, limiting our intake (two or three drinks -- not "doubles" but the equivalent of a glass of wine or beer or a 1.5-2 ounce shot of liquor) especially after dinner, and then giving ourselves plenty of time to metabolize all the alcohol we've drunk. (It also helps if we've eaten a good amount of food with our beverages.). If you're still not sure -- and it's often kind of hard to judge -- one way to get some piece of mind is to buy one the brands of breathalyzer that are being offered to consumers and keep it in your car. Using them can be fun and it is the only drinking game we know that actually prevent a tragedy.

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Before we went home, we were fortunate to witness and participate in making Siopao in my aunt's house.

Quite a huge one, but there are actually just two of them out of the twenty we made. The last two buns had to share the extra filling to place in it, lol.. Anyway, making Siopao actually starts with making the dough.. But before we go there, below are the ingredients used..

6 cups flour

1 package active dry yeast

1 lb minced pork

1 cup white sugar

2 teaspoons cooking oil

1 cup lukewarm water

1/2 cup boiling water

6 hard-boiled eggs

2 green onions

4 teaspoons light soy sauce

4 teaspoons brown sugar

4 teaspoons oyster sauce

1 teaspoon cornstarch, dissolved in 2 t. water

2 cloves garlic

3 teaspoons salt

6 teaspoons baking powder

Siopao Dough: Mix flour, salt and baking powder in a medium bowl, set aside.

You are to dissolve 1 package active dry yeast in lukewarm water then add 1 cup of the flour mixture. Mix thoroughly. Cover with a cloth and let rise 1 hour.

Dissolve the white sugar in the boiling water. Stir well then let cool to lukewarm. Pour into the yeast mixture, then add the rest of the prepared flour mixture.