Favorite foods - Ecuador Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
There is a lot of cultural background with food in Ecuador, especially for example if you're in the coast, you're going to try a lot of seafood. You need to try encebollado, which is a kind of fish soup. It sounds bad, but it tastes so good. And of course, if you are in the highlands, you're going to try a lot of kind of bland food like potatoes. You're going to try, for example, pork, which is pretty common there. And especially soups, like hot soups that you can find there. For example, locro de papa, which is kind of like a potato cream. It's pretty good. So, there's a lot of things to pick, especially fresh food. You're going to find a lot of them.
Video 2 Transcript
One of my favorite foods there is called colada morada and it's happening or like it's served kind of like October-November-ish because it's for Day of the Dead. So it's basically just like this purple soup thingy. It's more like a drink but it's kind of it's really thick and has fruit in it and then it's served like with this bread it's called guava de pan. Basically it's like this bread like long bread stick and it has this frosting decoration on it to make it look like a it sounds really dark but it's so good and it's so fun.
Video 3 Transcript
I love most of the things that I ate while there, but one of my favorites that I've continued to make while here is a dish called patacones. It's fried plantain chips. You can buy plantains in Walmart and you just need a salt in a pan and oil and they're quite tasty. Another favorite dish of mine is called ensabollado. It's a soup made of usually albacore or really any fish and onion and yuca. Very tasty soup. There's also ceviche, which unlike in other countries, the fish and shrimp in Ecuadorian ceviche is made with cooked fish and is a really tasty dish that goes with the patacones. I could just go on, the list goes on of all the great foods. They use a lot of peanut and seafood and it's just delicious.
Video 4 Transcript
People in the mountains aren't known for having a lot of flavor in their food. It's usually very bland. It's like potatoes, rice, chicken with not a lot of spices or sauces. If you are looking for some good food, you need food from the coast. And if you're in the mountains, you can still go to restaurants where people from the coast have like come to Quito and made their own coastal restaurant so people can enjoy that food because the coast has so much flavor and it's so good. Just white rice with an egg on top and avocado and fried plantain on the side. I really enjoyed that and they just call it arroz con huevo. Ecuador has so many bananas and it's so crazy. They have so many different types of bananas too. They have these tiny purple bananas that taste like apples kind of and they're super sweet. And yeah, just try all the bananas. All the bananas are so good.
Video 5 Transcript
Ecuador has the freshest fruit. If you didn't like, if you don't like papaya or mango or whatever, like pineapple, any other tropical fruits in the U.S., you'll, you need to give them a chance in Ecuador because you'll probably change your mind because everything there is so fresh and so juicy and so flavorful. And try new fruits because, but ask locals about them first because there's this one fruit called pitaya and it is so good and it tastes like pure sugar and I fell in love with it and I asked if I could, I was only given a half of one at lunch and I asked if I could have another one and she was like no, you don't want another one because it's like a natural laxative so if you have more than half then it really affects you.
