El Sapo y la Rana

Giant Pupusas
The Toad and the Frog might sound like the name of a British pub butthat is not case in Antigua Guatemala. ¨El Sapo y la Rana¨ is a small dinning room on Santa Lucia street, and even it might not seem anything special, it really is.

Walking in Antigua one day, I turned my head to this small dinning room and saw a lady making a 14¨ tortilla, so out of curiosity I stopped and ask her what she was doing? She told me she was making a Pupusa, which is a tortilla filled with melted cheese and different ingredients with a cabbage salad on the top. My surprise was not the pupusa itself, but the size she was making it so I decided to sit and try one.

After I sit the lady lend me the menu so I could choose the 3 ingredients I wanted and imagine my surprise when I saw that I actually asked for the medium size pupusa. Yes, they have them even bigger, a 18 inches pupusa and you can put 4 different ingredients, so I could not resist temptation and changed my order.

They have some other things in the Menu, but after I saw and tried my first Pupusa I never looked to the menu again but to see which ingredients I will put in there. The medium one cost Q20 and the big one Q30, and it worth every single cent. They also made a delicious salvadorian Horchata, perfect to join your giant pupusa.

El Sapo y la Rana is on the north side of Santa Lucia Street, right next to the hotel Pasabien II. They also made a delicious salvadorian Horchata so do’nt miss is neither.

One of Antigua’s best kept secrets.

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