Velaciones during Lent and the Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala
As explained before during the Lent Food series, Lent has some food that is associated with it and sold at the food …
Lent Food: Corbatas
As explained before, corbatas are fried flour-based crunchy dessert soaked in syrup or honey. Corbatas take their name from the shape they …
Lent Food: Mango Chow Mein
Chomín de mango or mango chow mein simply refers to the mango sliced very thinly so it looks like chow mein pasta. …
Lent Food: Elotes & Elotes Locos
As explained before, elotes locos are chucherías (snacks) that are always present in the typical Guatemalan county or town fair. To make …
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, …
Lent Food: Toffee apples
These apples will soon turn into caramelized apples. Toffee apples, as they are known in England, are a good example of the …
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 …
Lent Food: Panes con pollo
Panes con pollo or chicken sandwiches are the staple food of velaciones, vigils, along with batido, a drink made from tropical fruits …
Lent Food: Plataninas
Basically, plataninas are green platano/plantains chips. Plantains are like bananas, but much bigger and with a unique flavor. Guatemalans eat platanos in …
Poporopos are Popcorn
As explained before, poporopos is the Guatemalan Spanish word for popcorn. Most other Spanish-speaking countries use palomitas. I believe Guatemala is the …
Lent Food: Buñuelos
Just as in other celebrations, Lent has a food that is sold at the food stalls out side where velación, vigil, is …
Fresh Tropical Fruits Available Year Round
We are so fortunate in Antigua Guatemala to have a fresh plentiful supply of tropical fruits all year long. And quite inexpensive …
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 …
Freshly-cooked tortillas for breakfast, lunch and dinner
There’s nothing like on-the-spot-freshly-cooked tortillas to accompany your Guatemalan meals. If you grew up eating freshly-made tortillas, the aroma near a tortilleria …
Fresh Tropical Fruits To Go
Everywhere in Guatemala you can find fresh fruit ready to go inside a transparent plastic bag. Often you can can these fruit …