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El Pulgarcito de America Restaurante

April 17, 2012 – 00:00

Sometime late August last year, I hiked Mount Seymour with Kevin and Bonnie. Absolutely starving for some food after we came down, I thought of going to Bo Laksa King after. However, since it was a hot day and while driving past I spotted El Pulgarcito, I suggested we have some Latin food instead of a bowl of piping hot laksa.

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Located on busy Hastings Street between Nanaimo and Renfrew, it’s easy to miss this restaurant without this colourful sandwich board outside.

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For those who have read my older posts before or know me in real life, you probably know I love Latin American food, but even more specifically, I love pupusas. read more »

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Pupusas los Guerreros

February 7, 2011 – 08:00

One of the best places to score Mexican Latin-American foods and products is Los Guerreros Mexican Food Products. Don’t believe me? I’ve been going there with my mom ever since I can remember to pick up tortillas, achiote, manzante, and fricking chicharrons! There was also a time when they would sell churros with filling. Yes, churros like the ones you can get at PNE but infinitely better. Still need proof as to how awesome Los Guerreros is? Even the Georgia Straight says so.

Best Mexican food market

Los Guerreros Mexican Food Products

102–3317 Kingsway

604-451-7850

The closest thing you’ll find locally to a Mexican tienda, Los Guerreros has been supplying Mexican foods and ingredients to Vancouver since 1992. Looking for guava paste or horchata mix? How about some tamarind candy or tamale flour? Owners Rolando and Liney Zavaleta offer it all, including a large selection of international brands like Herdez, Las Palmas, and Goya, as well as locally produced tortillas and baked goods. The store is open noon to 10 p.m., Monday to Saturday.

Source: Georgia Straight : Best of Vancouver 2010

Apparently, the owners are El Salvadorean, and you know what that means…. PUPUSA! I’m obsessed with pupusas, they’re so damned good. I’ve had them at El Caracol (I think this post is due for an update, the style of writing I used is so blah) and Rinconcito Salvadoreno. I’m aware that there are a couple other restaurants in town that also sell pupusas, I’ll do my best to try them asap!

Anyways, it was a pretty normal visit to Los Guerreros. My mom just wanted to browse around for some stuff to accompany the tamales we had just picked up from Los Dos Amigos Market, so I walked around. It’s always interesting to see what kind of products they have that’s not commonly seen, and a little visual trip back to Costa Rica.

First time I’ve seen Sidral Mundet in person. Chowtimes had a little giveaway contest with them last year, and I scored an iPod Nano cause of it!

You know all those energy drinks you pound back? They contain Guarana, a berry found in the Amazon forest and Brazil, which contains a lot of guaranine, chemically equivalent to caffeine. Forget Red Bull, if you can get your hands on it, try some Bawls instead, it tastes better.

Curtido [pickled cabbage used in Salvadorean cuisine] essential if you’re going to be eating pupusas. $8.99 though, pricey!

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Rinconcito Salvadoreno

January 21, 2011 – 16:22

I’ve been meaning to try out Rinconcito for a LONG time now, but I was thwarted many times.

From the time I tried to take Yen of OMNOMics there but we found that they AREN’T open for lunch, to the random times I was on Commercial but had already eaten.

So after yet another night of dodgeball with VDL, we went to eat. They are CASH ONLY so make sure you’ve got some with you. There are some banks within a couple blocks of the restaurant though. Now after meeting Yen last night for yet again, another DOV event thanks to GourmetFury, (see past DOV we had together at Hidden) I felt even more guilty at not having this up in a timely manner..

Didn’t try anyone else’s food, so I’ll just talk bout mine. I had 3 pupusas at $3 each (I think, the price might be up/down a quarter)

Loroco is a common name for a vine called Fernaldia Pandurata that has edible flowers, known as Flor de Loroco. This is actually the first time I’ve eaten these, but I’ve seen them before. I don’t know about you, but from what I know about food and have eaten in my life, it’s not a very common thing to be eating flowers. I can recall the last time I ate flowers, and that was at Market by Jean-Georges where there was some crystallized violets in the dessert.

Thoughts on the pupusas here? Good, but definitely not packing as much filling and not enough curtido is given. Over at El Caracol (my personal favorite for pupusas), they jam pack it with cheese, beans, you name it. Then you get all the salsa and curtido you want! They make’m fresh when you order, so if you’re in a rush or just can’t wait, call ahead so you can go and pick up. That’s what we sometimes do and get them to-go.

So Vancouver, are there any other places to get some killer pupusas? Perhaps your friends mom makes them at home, or you know of another restaurant? Please let me know, I’ve now got an unhealthy craving for these things….

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Pupusas to-go at El Caracol Cafe

June 20, 2009 – 00:53

I posted about El Caracol Cafe a long time ago, back when I first started this blog in February.

Since then, I’ve learned a lot about taking better looking food pictures, so I figured I should do the pupusas justice by having some to go and take pictures at home. I’ve also changed a bit in the way I write, so it’s interesting to look back and read.

Ripped open the pupusa to show the cheese, meat and beans.