Food, pt. 3

Here is yet another installment on Chilean food. My goodness.

palta - Don't make the mistake of calling this guacamole, it's not. Instead it's crushed, smushed avocadoes. Guacamole without the extras. Palta is everywhere, on completos, churrascoes, etc...

merquen - A Mapuchen spice. Mapuches are the natives of Chile, they are about 5% of the population. I have yet to have merquen.

pastel de choclo - Corn on the cob. The corn is tougher back home and never sweet.

frambuesa - Gotta hand it to the Chileans, they know their juices and jugo de frambuesa is the stuff. It's a raspberry juice and it's the best of the natural juices here. Too bad it's not in season. No matter, you can still find it in some resteraunts.