It’s been almost a month since I’ve been abroad now. And two of my favorite things about Ecuadorian food are the different fruits and chifles! Here’s a picture of the open-air market, Mercado de Iñaquito, I talked about a few weeks ago. Each vendor had this much fruit on display! Fruit is super cheap here, and there are a bunch of tropical fruits I had not heard of before coming here. A common thing to do with the fruit is to serve it as part of a set lunch as a juice. In Ecuador, they call it “desayuno,” which is just the word for lunch in Spanish. It is a preset lunch menu consisting of a soup, 1-2 main course options to choose between, a dessert, and a juice. The price of almuerzo usually ranges from $3.50-5 in USD, and I love being able to try all the different fresh juice combinations! My other favorite food discovery here has been chifles, or plantain chips, like you’d find at Porto’s Bakery. They’re so good and are sold in grocery stores like regular potato chips!!
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