Chile Rancagua Mission

Honestly, one of my favorite things about the food there was the bread, just in general, is amazing. You'd think it's like French or European, so I ate a lot of the bread. Beyond that, the stuff the members gives you, some of it is really good and will grow on you very quickly. A big missionary favorite are what they call porotos, which is just beans. Basically, it just has beans and noodles in it. It seems really basic, but it's really good. They make it spectacularly. I also just really like their barbecue, their asado. One of my favorite things they did is called chancho en piedra, where they basically just mash up tomatoes and peppers and a bunch of stuff in a stone, I think it's called a mortar kind of thing, and you just dip the bread in it. It's delicious.

So I would say my favorite Chilean food is called a chorillana. It's basically a bunch of french fries covered with carne asada, kind of like a steak, and they have chicken or pork, kind of like any meat really, and they throw in grilled onions and chorizo sausage and some fried eggs. And then on top of that you can pour on ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, anything you want. So that's really good. On kind of more not junk foods, I guess you can say I really enjoyed the empanadas. During the dieciocho, or the September 18th celebration, their Independence Day, they make a lot of empanadas de pino, which are basically empanadas, or like kind of like pastries filled with meat and onions and a little bit of hard-boiled egg, actually throw an olive in there, and it's really good. So I'd say those are probably my favorite foods from Chile.