Here, there is food everywhere. Falling off trees (passion fruit falls into our garden), being sold on the street (there is a man that walks around selling little plastics bag of steamed clams with lime and salt) and being cooked on the street in makeshift oil drum ovens.
I expect I will have plenty more to say on this topic, so I´ll just start with the fruit and vegetables today
Avocado and mango. Each cost about €0.50.
La lechosa - papaya
This aubergine, ginger, (bottom to top) orange, tomato, mango and avocado cost about €3 total. The Boots card was for size comparison!
Zapote - it´s a crazy fruit with the brown fuzzy exteriour of a kiwi, and pink flesh that tastes like COOKED SWEET POTATO. Mad.
Mandarin with green skin.
Candongo - It means custard apple in English and is chirimoya in Spain. It´s similar to the guanabana, which is soursop in English. They are fibrous and creamy with big black seeds.
Yuca - a staple here. It´s like a starchier spud.
Una frutería
I eat a ton of fruit and veg here. Every morning I have a mango with yoghurt and raw oats, it´s a cheap and wonderful breakfast. But the local diet doesn´t seem to be as fruit and veg-heavy as you might expect. The typical dish is la bandera dominicana - rice, beans and meat. It´s served here at lunchtime as the plato del día, and you decide if you want pollo (chicken), res (beef), cerdo (pork) and sometimes chiva (goat). It costs 150 pesos (€3) almost everywhere and is filling and delicious. Sometimes you get a salad too.
Besides that, the other main staple seems to be fried chicken, or chicken roasted in oil drum ovens welded onto a stand. And, by night, you can get a delicious takeaway pork or chicken wrap with cabbage or sandwich for €2 from a street stall. Looks gross, tastes amazing.
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