“Just the Juice” – a Cuenca Street Food Tale
It’s been a little while since I shared a stray story on daily life here among the cobbled lanes of Cuenca. There’s still plenty of spontaneous processions and fireworks weekly, along with ever new surprises around every corner of El Centro. But of course, after 11 years here – my daily doings are much like yours, in each your own hometown in Anywhere Land.
Nonetheless, one such stray bit of street-side serendipity caught me by surprise recently (involving FOOD, naturally!), so I snapped a few pics to share here in the halls of TL.
Towit:
Just the juice…
I always admire a bit of entrepreneurial ingenuity among the locals in my beloved adopted home here in Cuenca, Ecuador. And street food has long been my personal jam. This dear fellow on a street corner in El Centro was selling – not ceviche (which is otherwise ubiquitous among the cobbled streets of El Centro) but rather…
Primarily just the *JUICE* from a normal ceviche (along w/ but a handful of requisite diced tomato and thinly sliced red onion). Piled high in a plastic cup w/ a boatload of crunchy fried plantain chips (my fave!).
He dubbed his tasty treats: “Cevichochos” – no doubt a most clever way of “truth in advertising” that they weren’t the usual full-blown “ceviches” w/ mounds of actual seafood chunks, yes? And was selling them for just *50¢*!
And by golly – my cup of “cevichochos” tasted just as delish as the $1.50 street-side “real” ceviche! 
#lifeisgood (still)
atop this 8,400+ ft. mountain in the South American Andes.
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Dyanne Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion,and I’ve always lived life “like-a-kid-in-a-candy-store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been: This ain’t a dress rehearsal, folks!
Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion, and I’ve always lived life “like a kid in a candy store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been:
