Morón (food)

In Filipino cuisine, morón (also spelled murón, with the stress placed on the last syllable) is a rice cake similar to suman. It is a delicacy native to the Waray people of the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, particularly in the area around Tacloban City in the province of Leyte and in the Eastern Samar province. Other parts of the Philippines have their versions of it, however. In fact, the morón was adopted as one of Mambajao, Camiguin's locally produced products. Since it is a variety of suman, the morón is cooked with glutinous rice, coconut milk and sugar. The main difference is that morón is gyrated with chocolate tablea (chocolate tablets) or mixed with cocoa powder while a regular suman is not. It also has a hint of vanilla and is usually partnered with coffee or sikwate (tsokolate, a native Philippine chocolate drink). With chocolate as its distinct ingredient, it is also called chocolate morón or chocolate suman.