It's difficult to order these in terms of ranking, but I'll try. Rankings are based on taste and price!
1) 1 quetzal frozen chocolate covered fruit or 1 quetzal homemade ice creams. This is probably the most random find ever, but they're so good. Some couple that owns a hotel down some random alley has a whole freezer of frozen fruits and little ice cream cups they make. Only 12 cents!
2) Deli sandwiches from Pana Meats. These are sort of expensive, 25Q, but they are big and come with a side too. It would be considered a good sub sandwich even back in the US. I'm pretty sure they import their meat, too.
3) Pupuseria. Pupusas are the national food of El Salvador and they are really great! It's basically two tortillas filled with cheese or vegetables or beans or meat then grilled on the stove. They come with some sort of pickled cabbage which is really good. Also, 1 pupusa is pretty filling, and each one only costs 8Q. I want to find a pupuseria in New York or NJ somewhere when I get back next year!
4) Uruguayan restaurant. I have no idea why it's called Uruguayan because they have only normal food, but they give you free refillable garlic bread with any order. However, we've been here so many times that I think they don't like us anyone, and have terrible service. On the other hand, they do have 5Q refillable coffee.
5) Chuchitas from a woman on the street for breakfast. These are basically just tamales with a little piece of meat in the middle and a salsa on the top. I probably shouldn't have eaten these, but they were only 3Q and they were really good.
Noticeably lacking: Good coffee shops. All the coffee here (minus Uruguayan restaurant) is around 8Q, expensive, and there's no good coffee shops to sit down and read in, or use wifi in. Also, I've gotten instant coffee before when I paid 7Q for a cup. What a rip off! There's also no good Internet here. Its either ridiculously expensive or ridiculously cheap but the people that work there are mean. (I'm currently using the latter).
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1. These sound awesome. Do most people have a freezer? If not, I wonder why this is still so cheap.
ReplyDelete3. La Fonda de Tia Rosa, 109 Somerset St., No. Plainfield, NJ. Described as a "hole in the wall."
I also found a reference to an awesome guanabana (also called soursop) shake at this restaurant. The fruit is spiky green outside, cottony white inside and tastes like vanilla & banana. Yum!
4. Ah, the abusers of the free garlic bread offense! I took 2 donuts from Ayers Chevrolet home in my purse for Charlotte, but only after I'd checked for cameras and double-checked the sightline of any loafing salesmen.
5. I binged "chuchitas" and the auto correct wanted it spelled "chucitos". These are called "puppies" and are made from Guatemala's most edible weed.
And the lack of good coffee is surprising - it seems like everyone should just have their own little coffee crop in the backyard.