Tired of Korean, Japanese, Italian and Chinese foods, I started craving for kare-kare and traditional Filipino dishes.
For the first time, we tried the popular Corazon Filipino restaurant on the 3rd floor of Shangrila Mall. It has the same owner as Florabel in Podium and Fely J’s in Greenbelt. Oyen loves the dilis rice in Fely J’s so I thought Corazon’s dishes must be good too.
I don’t like their menu. Creative yes, but giving the dishes a name required double effort for me. After reading the name, I have to look below it to read the description of the dish. Gusto ko yung isang tingin ko pa lang alam ko na kung ano yun. I was tired lang siguro. I didn’t want to read the descriptions one by one before I could decide on what to order. Tedious.
Their beef salpicao (a favorite dish of Oyen) is good as an appetizer.
I prefer white shrimps (hipon suahe) in sinigang because the shrimp meat is tastier and softer. The prawns (sugpo) hardens when boiled too long which makes it difficult to remove from the shell.
I didn’t remember how their kare-kare tasted. Will ask Oyen and Edmund.
I ordered a cup of their vanilla ice cream P125 + tax + service charge). Walang lasa. I complained to the waiter that it has no taste. Three of them went to the traditional kartilya (sorbetes cart). Each one of them sampled the vanilla ice cream to see if my comment was justified. “Walang lasa ba?”
