comida, comida, comida

What is a vacation without a lot of good food adventures? With one traveler experiencing intestinal issues we have kept it fairly simple, nonetheless we have still managed to seek out some of the local favorites…here are the highlights: 

1.) Baked goods at a panaderia.  It was no Berkeley Cheeseboard, but the banana muffins were amazing.   

2.) Un kilo de tortillas from the tortilla factory.  We had gone the day before to get the freshly made wonders of the world, but at 4:00pm they had run out of dough.  The guy at the factory advised getting to his shop before 1:00pm in order to snag the last of the bunch or at 4:15am to get the best of the best.  We settled for 10:30am and paid $0.90 for a stack of steaming tortillas.  In my bag they felt like a warm precious child or something.  So good. 

3.)  Un pollo from the Super Pollo Rotiseria.  Cooper had been eyeing the lines of rolling chickens at the rotisserie chicken shops near our condo.  We finally broke down and bought a chicken and papas to make tacos with our fresh stash of tortillas.  Yes, as seen below, Cooper had a strong affinity for the pollo.

4.) Mango margaritas.  Every afternoon for the past couple of days we have experimented with different types of margaritas.  We first started with the traditional fresh lime, then ventured to strawberry jam (our ingredients are a bit limited), but the favorite so far has certainly been the mango.  In an effort to use up all of our groceries by Saturday we may have to try making caramel and peanut butter margaritas, or maybe Cooper can recreate his enchilada margarita.  The possibilities are endless.

5.) The other day I found something rather unique (at least it is unique in my world): Hershey’s Chocolate Bubble Yum Gum. The taste is similar to a fudge roll up or fudgsicle from way back when.  It was kind of an odd sensation to bite into a piece of gum that semi-tastes like chocolate but then never melts in your mouth…it just stays there.  For anyone on a diet who likes chocolate, this gum may be the way to go (although the flavor doesn’t last too long).    If only they made dark chocolate gum, then I would be in heaven.  Oh, and the image of the brown gum in your mouth is something…I’ll leave you to guess what it looks like.
  

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Last night we went out to the downtown area and watched a puppet show.  The puppeteers were from San Francisco which was a little funny, but the best part was watching the locals get really into the show.  People were so enthusiastic and seemed genuinely happy.  Hopefully our intestines are strong enough to venture back downtown to see what may be going on tonight.