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Merienda is a snack that Filipinos usually take around mid- to late afternoon.  Cold, rainy afternoons are perfect for food that’s piping hot, and beef mami (beef noodle soup) is the ideal merienda for days with cloudy skies. Large chunks of beef swim in this salty broth together with curly egg noodles, cabbage, carrot slices, spring onions, and slices of boiled egg.  Beef mami can be found virtually everywhere, but the best-tasting ones are in carinderias and hole-in-the-wall eateries.  (Perhaps it’s all that MSG?)  The bowl of beef mami above was bought at the food court of the 168 shopping mall in Divisoria.