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The next stand was homemade ice cream/popsicle vendor. He has many of the traditional flavors you can find in the area, coco, limon, strawberry, mamey (that has a flavor somewhere between a melon and a sweet potato), mango, but one piqued my curiousity, "Rosa" (rose) flavored ice cream. It may appeal to some but to me it tasted the way over ripe cut roses smell as they are wilting with that heavy sick-sweet rose smell. I could not believe that the smell, could be caught so perfectly in the taste. Needless to say I did not buy a cup of it, a taste was sufficient.
The last stand was the "food court" of the market. Two women with a fryer were making panuchos and sabutes which are small tortilla snacks with beans, shredded chicken, etc. As I watch them, I notice small bags of little red, what looked to be like dried piquin chilis. I picked up this small bag, looked at it, I then looked at the woman, and she looked at me, I looked back at the bag in my hand, and looked back at the woman to ask "Que es esto, insectos?" Sure enough, fried crickets with chili, lime and salt. I asked her if they were crunchy or chewy, and she said that they were more on the chewy side, as curious as I was I could not bring myself to try these delicacies. It was a great educational experience gawking at these unusual, everyday treats... |
At the "candy stand" there were pots of berries, that look very similar to olives, swimming in some liquid. The sales person then scooped the fruit and juice into a cup and handed it to the customer who began munching it down. I asked the sales person "Que es esto?" What is that? And he gave me a berry to try. It has the texture of an olive but to me it had a horrendous taste, which I had to choke down, with a grimace, as to not offend the vendor. He told me it was a fruit pickled in mezcal. I politely thanked him and spat the remnant flavors on the ground as I turned and walked away.
| 1. Berries pickled in mezcal
2. Papaya cakes 3. Coconut chewy bar with strawberry 4. Dried mango 5. Peanut balls 6. Pecan clusters |
7. Sesame almond bird nests
8. Toasted coconut cakes with pineapple flavor 9. Tamarind balls covered in sugar 10. Coconut cakes covered flavored with lime 11. Tamarind balls covered in chile 12. Toasted coconut cakes with sweet orange flavor |
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