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.
Comment by Rudy at Aug 29th, 2008 9:16 am ↑
Pampa, good review. Here are the photos you’re missing though:
http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2006/07/10/guatemalan-cuisine-mayan-pizza-or-giant-pupusa/
Comment by Rudy at Aug 29th, 2008 9:18 am ↑
Oh, here is another review of the place with more photos:
http://www.rudygiron.com/biblioteca/2006/07/06/pupusas-gigantes-en-la-antigua/
Comment by ronald at Sep 24th, 2008 3:09 pm ↑
I was in Antigua last week on business and remembered this article, so I decided to give it a try!
Man, do I now have a place to eat in Antigua from now on!
Cheap, delicious, fast, what else could I ever want?
I decided to try the 14in pupusa because in Guate we have a saying: “tener más grande el ojo que el estómago” = “to have the eye bigger that your stomach” (ordering more that you’re going to eat or something like that), but that I know better, next time I’m ordering an 18 incher!
Two thumbs up in the Ron scale for cheap places to eat (my kind of place!)
Comment by cynthia perez at Feb 5th, 2009 8:15 pm ↑
here in georgia theres a place that has pupusa’s and my husband is from san marcos malacatan and he says nobody can make a pupusa better than the ladies in guatemala and he wanted to tell the mexican lady. I wish i new how to make them maybe one day he can say he loves mine.thank you for listening