Cheveres or Shucos Hot Dogs?
What do you prefer, a shuco hot dog or a cheveré? In case you can’t tell the difference, here are two visual …
Lent Food: Cheveres and Shucos Hot Dogs
Panes con pollo, chevere hot dogs and shuco hot dogs are the sandwiches that are present at every town fair and velación, …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Shucos are hotdogs
Shuco is a word that means dirty. It is not Spanish or Maya, but it is a word that represent their meeting …
Typical Guatemalan Breakfast Sandwich: Pirujo con huevo y frijoles
Many places in the world have breakfast sandwiches. Guatemala is no exception. The typical Guatemalan breakfast sandwich usually has scrambled eggs and …
Guatemalan Food: The Shuco Hot Dog
This Guatemalan shuco hot dog is a mixto [mixed], meaning it has more than one meat, four meats to be precise here: …
A Chevere hotdog is not a Shuco hotdog
To the uneducated eye the Guatemalan Chevere and Shuco hotdogs are just exotic hotdogs, but to the Guatemalans these two hotdogs are …
Geek food in Antigua Guatemala
I guess geeks will be geeks regardless where they come from. I mean, Guatemalan geeks eat no different than other computer geeks …
Guatemalan Coins
A few things we should know about the two coins shown in the picture above. First, the 25 centavos coin is normally …
Can you spot the Chevere Guy?
The two most famous Guatemalan hot dogs are shucos and cheveres. I have covered Guatemalan shucos hotdogs often enough that I believe …
The Guatemalan Shuco Hot Dog
The Guatemalan shuco hot dog comes with guacamol (avocado sauce), boiled cabbage, mayonnaise, tomato sauce, mustard, hot sauce, and one or more …
Beer and Hamburger Combo from Flan Antigüeño
Guatemalans have a tendency to adopt foreign foods easily, but always adding the Guatemalan twist. That’s how you explain shucos from hot …
Pirujos Locos of Roy.Com in Antigua
Are pirujos and shucos sandwiches getting out of hand? Come on, who can eat a sandwich this big. Just to clarify, the …
Guatemalan Fair: The Charcoal-broiled Meat Booth
The charcoal-grilled meat stall has gotten so hip that you now find it not only in fairs, but around La Antigua Guatemala in parks, markets and sidewalks. Back in February 20th, 2007, I showed you an extremely popular stall of grilled meats in Tanque de la Unión park from a bird’s eye point of view. In the picture above, chicken and beef steak were being offered along broiled potatoes. Q10 ($1.25) for a portion of the meat of your choice, chirmol (read the side note), guacamol and potatoes; definitely, not too bad of a deal.
Guatemalan Cuisine: Pirujos antigüeños
This sandwich is called Pirujo and it takes its name from the bread’s name. Pirujos and shucos are the two native sandwiches …