Waway’s Restaurant, Legaspi City, Bicol
Bicol cuisine is known for its dishes cooked in gata or coconut cream. Anything cooked in coconut milk is known as ginataang. Squit or crabs cooked in coconut milk are my favourite dishes. The other key ingredient of Bicol cooking is the sili (hot chilli). There are many kind of sili, among them the tiny but potent labuyo.
Most main dishes in the region are based on gata and sili particularly the way vegetables are cooked. May it be banana blossom, jackfruit, or any edible plant, Bicolanos transform it into a delicious dish topped with chilies.
Of course we shouldn’t forget the pili nuts.
The most famous dish from Bicol is probably the Bicol Express which is a mixture of pork meat and shrimp paste sautéed in tomatoes and onions and lots and lots of green and red chili strips simmered in coconut cream.
Bicol Express
Squit in coconut milk.
Pinangat is probably as popular. It is a delicious dish of shredded taro leaves and bits of juicy meat that are stuffed into little bundle of taro (gabi) leaves which are then, simmered in coconut cream and edged with a fistful of sili.
One of the best restaurants in Legaspi to taste the native Bicol dishes is probably Waway’s.
Here you can eat delicious food at a very affordable price. Care for Letson Paksiw, Langka, Bopis, Sarsiado Isda, Kare-Kare, Pinoy Bistek, Pugo (egg) with schrimps, Paya-Paya and much more? They have it all. Most dishes are priced well below 100 pesos.
Litson-paksiw
Hipon (schrimp)
Kare-Kare
Where: One km north of Legaspi. Five minutes from the airport. Peñaranda Street
My rating: 10/10. Delicious native (Bicol) dishes. Clean. Friendly waiters. Very affordable prices (less than P100 per dish).
Info: My Sarisari Store.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Gloria » November 10th, 2006 at 10:40 am
WOW Sidney. The photos are over the top. they’re making me hungry. YUMMY! thanks for the post, I’d check waway’s next time I’m in legazpi.
Charm » November 22nd, 2006 at 4:19 pm
you bet its so masiramon!!!!
liza » November 23rd, 2006 at 5:17 am
wow.makes me feel like booking my next flight home and go direct to wayway’s for a pig-out
Ernie J.C. LaGuilles » February 1st, 2007 at 10:51 am
Looking for Dick Fontanilla…he is my school mate way back the 60′ and early 70’s.
Masiramon ang mga Luto mo diyan. I will be in Legazpi by July 2007. Ma pig out ako diyan sa restaurant mo Dick!!!
How are the pioneer DWC students???am finaly returning but not retiring my “Business Consulting” profession to the Philipines after almost 40 years here in the USA.
See ya’ll
Nongkoashie
fely » February 21st, 2007 at 3:21 am
try their Bicol Express..even my German parents-in-law loved it!!!!!!as inm asiramon gabos pagkakan dyan. miss ko na lugod ang Pinas lalo na ang bicol.
karina » February 27th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Wooooowwwww!!! I’m drooling right now. I’ll make sure that the next time I go home for a vacation, Waway’s would be one of my first stops.
lia » May 4th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
we tried almost all their dishes and they were all good from the crab omelet, pinangat, bicol express, bopis, fried squid, grilled fish, malunggay with gata, lechon paksiw, beefsteak to their fried rice. and price is very reasonable.
nelly » August 25th, 2007 at 3:41 am
yeah it looks so good that makes me so hungry for ginataang gulay I’ll defenitily stop by & have some of those food when I come home around june 08.
See ya gain on July'08 » April 30th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Masarimon lalo na kung maharangharang ano…may Tuba pa! sos…it’ it’s just like high school days…