After the debacle at the border, we arrived in the beautiful quaint town of San christobal de la casas. The plaza is the centre of the town like all Spanish colonial towns. We did not have a hostel booked so we walked down what looked like a main street. It was an 'only pedestrian' street and very pretty. We found a decent really cheap hostel and took it.
I've mentioned before that I was disappointed with the food on this trip. Not always but more often than not the general staples have been quite uninspiring. That was all about to change... We happened upon a Taqueria called Cochinita Pibil, which means it is actually from the Yucatan and not from the Chiapas where we were. We ended up eating tacos con chorizo, tostadas, like small fried tacos with flling- cheese and some sort of cream, tortillas, and few other forms of bread or tacos with different filling. The longinizas, a flavoured sausage tasted amazing, as did all the chilli sauces. They were spicy but not out of bounds as the Mexicans would like us to believe. Even Yannick has been dousing his food with the sauce much to the entertainment of the other customers.
The next morning we walked around the city, saw the beautiful cathedral and ate a lot. This time we went to a really local although now famous cerveceria or beer bar. This place had a great deal, 2 beers and a snack for some $4. The snack I had was Camarones del diablo, spicy and crunchy. The table also got a small portable barbecue with small peices of pork in a tomato and chilli sauce, to be eaten with tacos. You can add fresh raw diced onions, capsicum and a mild salsa to spice it up. I have been in Heaven the last 2 days! The bread we picked up for breakfast was great too. I wonder why the other countries around Mexico wouldn't just incorporate this cuisine into their own!
Next lunch was at a local joint owned and run by three generations of a family. The soup was a winner, and then the albondigas con arroz (rice with meat balls) divine! I'm staying !!!
Its been raining heavily and so the next 2 days got washed out but we managed to get to the Dulce Mercado or market of sweet, which looked like an indian halwai market, with milk sweets (pedas), baked sweets, and a variety of gaudy colored local sweets. We tried out a strange desert. It was sweet, hot syrupy liquid in a glass filled with fruits. Interesting but not to my liking.
On the perifery of this market are local restaurants and taqueria. Today, I tried the huacheria con longinizas (might have got the name a little wrong). It is diced laoginiza with chopped chillis, some diced tomatoes, some kind of cream cheese, and grated cheese sprinkled on top, all layed out on a soft tortilla. Don't think they needed the grated cheese but otherwise, one more reason to love mexico!
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