What to Buy and Eat at LA’s Salvadoran Street Food Market | Eater LA

"This bustling open-air market has rapidly expanded in the past nine months and serves Salvadorans and other Central Americans with a rich selection of fresh produce, pantry staples, prepared foods, and sweets. Signature items include pupusas—especially loroco-and-cheese, revuelta, and beans—served with curtido and squirt-bottle tomato sauce (condiments are commonly kept on the side to avoid sogginess); yuca con chicharrón dressed with curtido and tomato sauce; thin strips of green mango seasoned with lime and alguashte (pumpkin-seed powder); and pasteles and seafood cocktails such as coctél de conchas made with concha negra, chimol, Lea & Perrins, and bright lime. Vendors also offer Salvadoran breads and candies (quezadillas, espumillas, tartaritas, jaleas de fruta), imported cheeses like crema salvadoreña and queso cuajada, and regional ingredients—chipilín, pescado seco, chufles, nisperos, loroco, plantains, ground pumpkin seed, and gallina india—making it a go-to place for traditional home cooking. The market’s picnic-bench atmosphere is lively on weekends, with many vendors present; it operates most mornings through about 5 p.m., seven days a week, and functions as an important cultural and culinary hub for the Salvadoran community in Los Angeles amid broader political pressures on Central American immigrants." - Bill Esparza