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0063: The Food pages: Platos fuertes

Matthew Hopkins

Aug 28, 2015 • 5 min read

More food photos, from my travels.
With descriptions where I can remember.

If I eat any more, I will have to roll the rest of the way !

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The best Ceviche in Mexico. Served in a frozen Pineapple!

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The second best Ceviche. Near Lago Milagros, Mexico

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One of many fruit salad breakfasts

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Super Burrito with Arrachera beef

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And a plate of extras to fill it up!

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Nachos and Hot sauce

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Machaca. A type of dried shredded beef mixed into an omelette

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Bar snacks. Cucumber with lime, chilli and salt. Simple

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Spicy Prawns

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One is very hot, the other is hotter!

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Squid stuffed with crab meat

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Tacos al pastor - Pork

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Ceviche mixto. Prawns, Fish, Octopus

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Super Burrito with Arrachera and Guacamole!

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Almost an English breakfast. Todos Santos, BCS

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Eggs benedict

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A simple hamburger

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Wrong how? Because your food was terrible!

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Smile

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Sirloin Kebab

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Spicy seafood rice

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Just a Mango

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Los Pollos Hermanos

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Mixed grill

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Fresh Mushroom Salad

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The best steak in Panama city

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Fish Ceviche

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Vietnamese soup

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Lulo's or Naranjillas. Tangy, slightly orangy and make great juices.

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Avocado

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Shameful Ceviche. Just fish bits, ketchup and mayonnaise. Colombia

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Peanut and chicken pancakes

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Cashew apple. Soft, sweet but astringent. Inside the green shell is a cashew nut

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Eating my 25,000 km coconut

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Fresh pressed Sugarcane juice. Rocketfuel for cyclists!

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Sometimes its worth the stomach ache!

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Simple coconut pieces

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Gordito. Tacos served with half a Habanero!

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Panuchos. Tortillas filled with beans and topped with meat and vegetables

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Smoked pork and Chorizo

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Onion Salad

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Good food = big smiles. Valladolid, Mexico

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Almost bacon. Corazal, Belize

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Shameful Chinese food. Belize

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Fish curry A+

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Guatemala mixed grill. Pork, Beef, Chicken

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Tough steak!

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Huevos Rancheros

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Hot chocolate in water. San Salvador. A+

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Pupusas. Thick corn tortillas stuffed with pork and cheese

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Fried plantain

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Chicken Fajitas

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Beef Kebab

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Coca cola. Served in a plastic bag! Granada, Nicaragua

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Grilled Chicken, Nicaragua

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Pork Kebab

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A really good but way too small pizza (and way too expensive!). Costa Rica

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Tortilla topped with fried onions and Tomato sauce.

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Red Bananas

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Gallo Pinto. Rice and beans. Flavourless and very boring.

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Encocao de pescado. Coconut curry with fish

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Encebollado. Fish soup with Yuca.

Apart from one steak, I don't recall anything costing more than around $2. Bargain!

Plenty more to come.
Cyclist plus food equals distance.

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