Don Emilio

Once upon a time, on the top floor of the old Hilton Hotel in Malate, Manila, waiters served lunch (or sometimes a very late breakfast) to a group of four gentlemen whom they referred to as the "knights of the round table.

- JULLIE Y. DAZA

They were not knights and it was not a round table, but you get the gist. Neither were they your ordinary hotel or dine-in guests. Two of them were bankers, one was the general manager of the Manila International Airport, and the fourth was the commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration.