Koron Native Cuisine: Clay Pot Cooked Delicious, Filipino Dishes

Koron Native Cuisine 
Delicious Clay Pot Cooked, Filipino Dishes 

I tagged my family along during a speaking engagement
in Legazpi, and we chanced upon Koron Restaurant .

 

Located at the ground floor of a hotel,

a block away from the City Bus Terminal,

…Koron had a rustic themed 
 Bahay Kubo for interiors,

 

…and we were amused as they also utilized

indigenous materials for eating utensils.

 

 

Koron is a Bicol term for earthen clay pot

used as for cooking by most Bicolanos in

the past, and the restaurant is also using the

same thing in cooking most of their dishes.

 

The Nilagang Baboy was very delicious

and seemed to have been soured with

native ‘kalamansi’ giving just the right

tanginess. It also had a delightful earthen

aftertaste having been cooked in a clay pot.

 

The Lutong Bahay Kare Kare also had the

earthen aftertaste. This is probably one of the

healthiest versions of the otherwise grease laden

dish as they used lean cuts of beef instead of

ox tail and innards. The creamy peanut sauce

was flavorful  and the veggies were very fresh

The Ginataang Natong Klasiko made of taro leaves,

simmered in creamy coconut milk to a melt in the mouth

consistency and again topped with thick curdled coconut

milk. A classic Bicolano dish, which just like the other

two dishes was  teeming with an earthen aftertaste as

it appeared to have been cooked in a native clay pot.

I was initially reluctant to order Manok ni Koron,

as it was described a “battered” chicken in the menu

and I didn’t want my family to eat something tortured

and heartlessly beaten to death before being cooked.

I cleared it up with the waitress and it turned out

to be a perfectly fried delicious buttered chicken.

 

The Purong Laman ng Malutong na Pata was

to die for, literally and figuratively. It was a very

delicious boneless crispy pata, sinfully crunchy on

the outside and gloriously tender and juicy on the

inside. One of the best tasting crispy pata in Bicol.

 

Koron Native Cuisine is an awesome restaurant

that serves clay- pot cooked Pinoy dishes, making

us experience something done by our ancestors.

The two-hour drive to Legazpi from Naga

was all worth it and gives us a good reason

for us to visit Albay again in the near future.