Favorite foods - Guatemala Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
When I first got to Guatemala, one of the first foods I had were something called platanos fritos, so fried plantains. And I thought they were the absolutely most disgusting food on the planet, like who eats fried bananas? But after a while, because they are eaten pretty frequently, I just learned to love them. Like, just fry them up, throw some salt on there, throw some cream, and they are absolutely delicious. So you might hate them to start out, but if you give them a little bit of time, you will learn to love them and they will be like all you ever want.
Video 2 Transcript
The food there is super good. I mean, sometimes you get to one of the pueblos or the smaller towns and they just feed you beans and eggs and beans and eggs and beans and eggs and tortillas all of the days, but when they make their typical food or their really good food, you get stews and soups of chicken and beef and fried plantains and just chocolate dishes and just the most well fresh handmade foods and when they do like a barbecue so good and and they just put so much flavor into it compared to a lot of the American culture and uh it's just such a fresh food. So I just loved everything they had. They were really
Video 3 Transcript
You're going to eat a lot of tortillas, fresh tortillas. You're going to walk by on the streets and there's just rows and rows of people making tortillas and it's the best because you can eat them anytime you want and they're hot and they're fresh and they're wonderful and you can't find that at home. I miss that. A typical meal we would always get tortillas with beans and eggs, scrambled eggs. There's not a whole lot of rice. They don't eat much rice but beans, eggs and tortillas were definitely the three things that we ate most and I loved it. I miss it. My least favorite food would probably be menudo which is like a cow soup. Me and a lot of my companions would call it mystery meat. It's just not the best but definitely good to try. Always try. Who knows, maybe you might like it.
Video 4 Transcript
I love Guatemalan food. One of my favorite is the dish, elachas. It's really good. It's kind of like a saucy chili type with meat and some potatoes. It's prepared different. Some people do it differently, but the one I really liked had that. Also, pan francés, eggs, and black beans. I'm used to it because I'm Mexican. I was used to it with a lot of pinto beans, but black beans was the big thing down there. A lot of chicken. There's a lot of different variety of things. There's paches, potato dough, tamales, which are very different from Mexico. They're a little bit more soggy and stuff.
Video 5 Transcript
My favorite food is pepian, and it's cooked chicken served with rice and a sauce, a red sauce that has onions in it. It's really good. I'm not sure what's in the sauce, but it is delicious, and they'll serve you that a lot. It's called a recado. Those are dishes with rice and chicken and a sauce, and pepian is the dish with the red sauce, and it's delicious. My other favorite, my favorite drink is ponche, and they serve it at Christmas time, and it's warm fruit juice with fruit inside of it, pineapple, melons, grapes sometimes, pieces of apples. It doesn't sound too great, but it is delicious, and I looked forward to every Christmas because I got to drink a lot of ponche.
Video 6 Transcript
I miss Guatemalan food so much. One of my favorites is caldo de pollo and caldo de res, it's like a soup and they cook the meat in there and then they have like this huge plate of vegetables that you can add to it and then they put like radishes with lime and rice in there and it's so good. I also really love pepian, it's like a squash based sauce that they put on chicken and rice. Platanos fritos, fried plantains with eggs and like the special cheese and it's not sour cream but it's called crema and they have french bread on the side, it's so yummy and rellenitos, it's fried plantains that you fry them and then you make into like a tortilla and then they put beans and sugar in the middle, it's so good. Just so many things that I miss and that I really love about the food there so enjoy it.
Video 7 Transcript
One of my favorite foods there were paches, which is kind of like a tamal, but made out of potato instead of corn dough. But other than that, it's basically the exact same. Another one of my favorite foods are tortillas de harina, which is, literally that translates to flour tortilla, but usually it's kind of like a burrito where it's got, you know, like meats and, you know, onions and all sorts of things inside, and those were one of my favorite foods as well.
Video 8 Transcript
They had what's called platanos fritos, which is fried plantains, and at first I hated them so bad. They were so gross, but later on I started to like them and started to like them, and then they put cinnamon and sugar on it and put it with, you know, eggs and refried beans and, you know, tortillas and cream. That was the best breakfast of all time, and platanos fritos are incredible. They are so good, and I would recommend them to anybody.
