Kambingan Restaurant: Surprisingly Excellent Chevon Dishes

Kambingan Restaurant
Surprisingly Excellent Chevon Dishes
Magsaysay Avenue, Naga City

I cannot count how many times we have ignored

this restaurant whenever we are looking for a

place to dine in the famous Magsaysay strip.

We have never considered the restaurant

as a dining destination as it looked like

it was meant for wining and never for dining.

But when we saw the restaurant being featured

on a local lifestyle show while the chef was having

 a live demo on how to cook Crispy Patang Kambing,

one of their best selling dishes next to Kalderetta,

 

…we knew that we have to try that popular

Filipino fare that traditionally uses pork thigh

but uniquely modified using healthier goat meat.

We initially ordered Sinigang na Hipon.

We found the dish tasty and delicious

but we weren’t very excited as we came here

to try their dishes made from goat meat.

 

It was everyone’s first time to eat goat meat

and we ordered two chevon based dishes.

 

First was the Kalderetang Kambing

which was the restaurant’s specialty.

It was so tender and delicious and you could actually

taste the perfect blending garlic, onions and

stewed in tomato sauce to ideal tenderness.

 

Second was the Crispy Patang Kambing

also called Lechon na Kambing

and listed in the menu that way.

 This unique deep fried dish using chevon instead

of whole pig’s leg, is a healthier version of this

popular Filipino delicacy and was surprisingly

crispy and tasty sans the greasy subcutaneous fat pad.

 

The Chop Suey also came as a pleasant surprise-

...as it was so delicious and tasted so pure and natural

without any after taste  from any artificial seasonings.

Just pure, fresh, crispy half- cooked vegetables.

The rice came in a really huge platter that we

initially thought we would not be able to consume

 even half of what was served- but we were wrong.

The food was so delicious that we decided to

order another platter- which again came in huge plate

and surprisingly- we consumed everything again.

 

Kambingan may not look like a restaurant that

caters to regular diners as it specializes on chevrons, 

... but it is actually an excellent dining  destination  and a 

healthier alternative  among the regular restaurants 

mushrooming in Magsaysay Avenue.

Spring, Sweet Spring in Naga City

“Spring, Sweet Spring” 

in Naga City

If there is Spring in the Philippines then
it would be after the summer heat subsides
and heralds the onset of the rainy season.



We have a quaint little garden at home

that I have already gotten used seeing to be
  perpetually green the whole year round.







So when I looked out of our window one weekend
I was delighted to discover that flowers have
bloomed in our garden birdbath that is being
sun- cured to appear like an old abandoned fountain.



Flowers of all colors are abloom and seem
to be welcoming the beautiful day.













I took my camera out, asked my kids
to come out of the house...







....and walk around and explore the garden to appreciate
the spring- like splendor of the beginning of the
wet season of the year round summer Philippine weather.







Hot humid Philippine summer can be harsh
on plants as everything goes dry and arid…







…and it is on this season that the grass
and the leaves are greener,





…the flowers are abloom,







…and you see multitude
of colors everywhere,





..even our turtles at the turtle pond
seem to welcome the colorful day
saying; "Hey! It’s spring-





…sweet spring".





If there is a spring equivalent
in the country, then- this must be it

Surfing Bagasbas Beach, Daet, Camarines Norte

Surfing Bagasbas Beach

Bagasbas, Daet, Camarines Norte 

(Bagasbas Beach Series 2)

The kids have been very active in sports.

My eldest daughter Nicole wakeboards,

 

Timothy plays the pogo, swims

and skateboards…

 

 ...and starting to learn to wakeboard at the

CWC Winchpark Beginer’s Lake,

 

So when we spent a weekend in Daet,

at the awesome Bagasbas Lighthouse Hotel,

a very popular surfing destination in Bicol,

…they were excited to have

their first  surfing lessons.

Young kids like Timothy are taught

how to balance and hit the wave

at the knee deep shoreline,

 

…and the little boy did very well.

The revelation came from

my 15 year old daughter,

...after paddling on to the ocean

and found a perfect surge of wave, 

…who after only her first ride,

…she surfed like she has been

doing it all her life.

Surfing is addicting-

said the kids,

…as it gives us a reason to be back

to Bagsagbas Beach,

Do I hear Siargao, La Union

and Honolulu beckoning?

Read my Other posts about Bagasbas, Deat

Bagasbas Lighthouse Resort Hotel

Bagasbas, Daet Camarines Norte

Stay Stray Play and  Feast

(Bagasbas Beach Series 1)