wine, salad and bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. not all the food is weird
ok this is gong to be interesting... I’m such a picky eater BUT I found great pictures and I can describe what it is. Try most things and don’t ask what it is until you decide if you like it. Otherwise you wont eat half the things... hahaha it is true! and maybe that's why I've tried so many different things! we do not eat bugs but all parts of the cow/chicken/pork are popular.
I'll start with what I looove and miss: My craving is always Manga biche, not MangO, ManGA! it is a different fruit. They look the same but Manga is a little bit sweeter. Biche means we eat it when is green- not ripe. This is only good with salt and lemon. that reminds me, lemon is green- lime for Americans. I don’t know in the rest of the world but a lemon is dark green.
Restaurants I love are Crepes and Waffles.
My silly friend eating arepas with white cheese adn chorizo(sausage)
I’m getting hungry just thinking about this place! It is very simple. They have crepes filled with any ingredient(shrimp, chicken, mushrooms, cheese....) , the natural fruit juices are delicious, and the ice creams are huge and very good too. I also like pizza a lot in Colombia. Very thin crust, lots of mozzarella cheese and simple toppings. Most popular are ham and cheese, chicken, and Hawaiian. No black olives or anchovies YUCK!!! I guess you can order that but.... Names of pizzerias: Karens Pizza, Salerno, and Archies. Pizzerias are places to sit down. Usually family oriented restaurants.
A new trend in restaurants is something called: fusion food or International food. Which is a mix of Mediterranean, Colombian, Italian, Arabic, and French depending on the restaurant that you go.
SANCOCHO. This is the typical dish from the state I'm from: Valle del Cauca. It's basically a soup with chicken or meat, cilantro, plantain, and cassava
I tried a sweet plantain Lasagna last time I went and it was delicious. I love a restaurant called Carambolo. Their lulo juice is the best I’ve ever had. Lulo is similar to kiwi and the juice has the chunks of the fruit with ice. Lulada is the same but they also add condensed milk! Most trendy restaurants and lounge bars are located in Granada on 9th avenue. Granada is an old neighborhood recently renovated to be a shopping and restaurant area. It has a very particular architecture. It is easy to get there. Anyone knows where Granada is. If you get on a taxi, say take me to Granada o “a la novena” that just means 9th.
Steak is good in Colombia but it doesn’t compare to Argentina, Brazil or Bolivia!!! We get together a lot for BBQs.
mi grandmother making "bunuelos" is like a fried cheese bread
Usually that is what we eat if you get invited to go to a country house. Unless they want to make you some real Colombian food and they make one of the typical dishes.
Tropical fruits are delicious. We have so many varieties of fruits I dont think I've tried them all. My favorites are lulo, papaya, maracuya(passion fruit), and tangerines. I also like "guayaba-manzana" which is a hybrid of guava when is green and green apple. You can eat this with salt a lemon. if not it would be a little sour.
Typical Colombian food, i only like the simple things. Like Arepas which are something like a white corn bread. No flavor if you don’t add cheese and butter. Also, bread is really good here!! I don’t know what they put on the flour!!! Pandebonos are typical from Cali but you can find them everywhere. It's something like a white cheese bread. Since I live in Florida, there are many places where i can find all these bakery items. We have someone who makes arepas and he brings them home, so I don’t miss my arepas for breakfast.
Foods also vary by regions. As the weather gets colder, there are more soups, as you get closer to the ocean the typical dish is fried fish and coconut rice. In Cali, the typical dish is the "Sancocho de Gallina" and maybe Tamales as well.
