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.