We Tried to Try it All
You can eat like a king in Cali. This meal for two with drinks, soup and main course was less than five dollars.
It's the kind of place with a limited menu - you pick one of two specials for the day.
Then you dig in. Grilled chicken, rice and beans, fried plantain and salad.
This is a first - a tea made with the discarded coffee bean shells.
Mayonnaise flavored potato chips. Surprisingly good.
We tried a fancy bread shop for breakfast.
It came with freshly baked bread, yogurt and granola, various spreads and coffee. We also got a chocolate bread to go that we shared with our landlord.
Fancy dessert shop.
Fancy carrot cake.
I'd had tres leches before but this was cuatro leches - 4 separate types of milk: cream, caramel, cheese and one other I couldn't figure out.
Back on the street - fried goodies with a variety of spicy sauces to add. This one is deep-fried potato and ground beef. We slathered it with a sauce called Aji - which is jalapenos, cilantro, tomato, spring onion, vinegar and lime.
I'd never heard of an Oblea - it's two wafers with stuff spread in between. We got one at the park across the street from our house - ours had peanut butter and chopped peanuts crammed between the thin wafers.
On a different day in that same park we got a shaved ice. Truly decadent - passion fruit ice with condensed milk drizzled on top.
The shaved ice man was there all day long and he was making a killing at a dollar a pop.
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