guatemala roadside food fun

Chicken meat, cow meat, lamb meat and mystery meat with grilled spring onions, frijoles and heaps of tortillas and sugarcane juice under naked bulbs on a dark alleyway, under an umbrella as shade from the moonlight. In the mornings, the market food of arroz con leche, gruel with chicken bullion, tostadas and chuchitos as the flies landed and lifted off the food, and it's sights like these that make the food taste so much better. For snacks, lunch, dinner and everything else in between: fried chicken EVERYWHERE! None of that touristy lonely planet restaurant crap which are usually empty, expensive and where the only locals present are the staff, avoid them like the plague! And for fortification: lots of Gallo. These are a few of my favorite things. And the people too, really the nicest and most polite people I've come across thus far! And this is not some tourist brochure junk crap propaganda. I kid you not. Life just feels so much more alive!