Guatemalan Night Market

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"Pull up to Westlake’s “humo en tus ojos” (smoke in your eyes) churrasco stands for a vision of the lakeside town of Panajachel, next to MacArthur Park Lake. On the northeast corner of Bonnie Brae and 6th Street are chapines (Guatemalans) serving tamales de arroz (rice flour tamales), paches (mashed potato tamales), and pork and chicken tamales wrapped in banana leaves all flavored by tomato-based recados (stews) and sweetened by bell peppers and mild chiles guaques. There are chuchitos, too, wrapped in corn husks, for contrast in perhaps one of the greatest tamal cultures in Latin America." - Bill Esparza