Guatemalan Street Food — Pan con pollo
Pan con pollo or chicken sandwich is among the most popular street foods one finds in Antigua Guatemala and the rest of …
Street Food Vendors Around Parque Central
Often in orientation talks organizations discourage the consumption of street food and for a good reasons. However, a blank statement like do …
Street Foods — Charbroiled Meats
Guatemalans love charbroiled meats; that’s why you see street vendors selling carnes asadas everywhere you go in Guatemala. Here’s a vendor selling …
Street Food: Elotes Asados
How can something so simple, a charbroiled corn on the cob, be so delicious. In Guatemala we simply add salt and lime …
Holy Week Vistas: Street Food Stands
Another typical vista of the Holy Week is all the street food stands around town. I mean almost everywhere you walk you …
Indulging in the authentic taste of Antigua’s street food
One important aspect of Cuaresma, Lent, is the seasonal food that comes with it. There are many food stands that mushroom around …
Foodie Fridays — Tortillas con chorizo y longaniza y queso Chancol
Tortillas con longaniza ahumada [smoked white sausage] and gorillas con chorizo ahumado [smoked red sausage] from Tecpán are among the most popular …
Semana Santa Comfort Food: Garnachas
Semana Santa in Antigua Guatemala offers so many comfort foods, such as garnachas, a street food originally from Xelajú [Quetzaltenango]. Today’s portrait …
Foodie Fridays — Indonesian Rendang Curry
If you like curries head over to Toko Baru, a great joint located on 1a avenida sur, offering lots of curry and …
Foodie Alert: Chicken Tikka Masala from Toko Baru
Today’s version of chicken tikka masala es from Toko Baru, a great joint located on 1a avenida sur, with lots of curry and pita sandwich options. I highlighted this diner for the first time back in April 2010 with a shorma kebab pita sandwich.
Street Photography Walks in Antigua Guatemala: Architectonic Details
If you like taking pictures, Antigua Guatemala will be paradise for you, with so many photographic opportunities no matter in which direction …
Ambulant Food Vendors Feed the Workers and Students
Two or three baskets show up around lunch time, the pots are open to show the food options of the day. Within …
The Fast-food Invasion
What are some of the most noticeable changes I have witness in Antigua Guatemala over the past decade. Well, the saddest is …
Consecutive Day 3649 — Food Trucks
As real estate spaces become prohibited expensive in Antigua Guatemala, many have opted for the food truck option. I wonder if soon …
Feeding the street dogs in Antigua Guatemala
Sometimes we wonder how we can change the world for the better. Often, that’s all we do, well, at least I do, …
Guatemalan Food: Tostaditas
Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Tostaditas or mini tostadas It’s been a while since I publish a Guatemalan food …
Lunch Time on the Streets of Antigua Guatemala
At lunch time one can find stands of food vendors pop up at street corners or around parks in Antigua Guatemala. These …
Food Truck in Antigua Guatemala
Some people might claim this is the first food truck in Antigua Guatemala, but that is not true, since there are quite …
Acts of Kindness: Feeding the Street Dogs
I believe the majority of real heroes are anonymous. The real heroes do their work out of conviction and love. I spotted …
Lent Food: Batido Drink
Batido is a fruity drink topped with a powder called pinol, a coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often in …
Guatemalan Food Sampler: Salpicón, Chojín and Guacamol
I plate like this will set you back Q20/$2.50 in the main square of San Felipe de Jesús, a great locale for …
Restaurant & Food Overview
RWOrange put together a very comprehensive list of the restaurants and food I have covered in AntiguaDailyPhoto in Chowhound. Here’s the list …
Framed Street from Antigua Guatemala
It is difficult to frame a shadow, especially if it’s moving, but it can be done. Now, if you had asked me …
Buñuelos Are Another Traditional Guatemalan Christmas Food
By the way, although I have not mentioned it yet, every night as I write the daily entry I can hear the bombas (bombs) firecracker, the cohetes (firecrackers) being burnt, the church bells tolling, the canchinflines (whistle) firecracker and all kinds of unknown (to me) firecracker being burnt and creating a loud bang which I can hear as echoes through the far away streets. In additions to the smells and scents, the Christmas season in Guatemala has a soundtrack of its own.
Ferris wheel in the town fair of San Pedro Las Huertas
Of course, it wouldn’t be a town fair with out a Ferris wheel, mechanical games, all kinds of street food vendors, live …
Guatemalan Yellow and White Corn on the Cob
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Elotes for corn on the cob. Elotes are one of the most popular …
Pizza for the masses during Lent
For better or worse, pizza has carved a niche among the street food offerings found during Cuaresma [Lent] and Semana Santa [Holy …
Social Media Location Updates from the Candy Floss Ambulant Vendor
Imagine that now you can follow the location updates of the cotton candy vendors on Periscope and Twitter. No more should you …
The Ever Popular Corn on the Cob
Corn on the cob is among the most popular street foods one can find in Guatemala. Obviously, there several vendors in each …
Garnachas quetzaltecas at the town fair of Ciudad Vieja
Garnachas quetzaltecas are quite the food attraction at the town fair of Ciudad Vieja. Interesting enough, hardly ever you find at the …