FOOD

This is the list where I shall share some of the local and interesting food here, and my thoughts on it.

I want to note that I am eating pescatarian while I am here. The seafood in restaurants here is local, and I wanted to be able to experience some of the regional food. I'll maybe eat seafood once or twice a week, and I'm still adjusting to eating that much animal protein. When I get back to the states I plan on going back to just veggie.

Eating vegetarian in Colima is hard. Taquerias are on every corner, and they are the typical, inexpensive options. Some of them have quesadillas, which I can eat. They're really delicious if you load them up with guacamole salsa, but I can't eat quesadillas every day. We're slowly finding the places with vegetarian or seafood options (somewhat on the cheap).

Food

1. Ceviche
I need to begin with ceviche, of course! Raw fish, cooked with the acid from lime with tomatoes and peppers. SO GOOD. You can get it with various types of seafood. I think that shrimp is my favorite because it has the most "normal" texture. The best ceviche I  have had was from the side of the road near the university. I was living on the dangerous side that day.

2. Chapulines
AKA grasshoppers. I ordered a batch from the Oaxacan restaurant Au Que Nanishe and ate then in tacos. They were very salty. This is more of a Mayan thing than a Colima thing.

3.  Tuna (Prickly Pear)
I eat a lot of prickly pear in Dallas, but I had never had the green type before. I had also never had it with lime, salt, and chile. It's super cheap to buy ten of them already peeled off the street.

4. Queso Fundido
This is basically a plate full of cheese. Goodness. So much cheese. I can't handle this much cheese more than once in my life. You eat it with tortillas like a cheese taco. So much cheese.


Drinks
1. Tejuino
Tequino is a (pretty much) nonalcoholic fermented corn drink they sell in the streets around here. It has a thick, almost syrupy texture and is sweet, salty, and lime-y.

2. Tuba
Tuba is another drink sold in the street, made from somewhat-fermented palm sap. It is bright pink and tastes a bit fermented with a bit of a coconut flavor. You drink it with peanuts in it.