Food guide
Where to find Oaxaca's best street food, market by market: tlayudas and chapulines at Benito…
2/8
Benito Juárez for tlayudas, tejate and chapulines; 20 de Noviembre, across Aldama Street, for the smoke corridor's grills.
3/8
Tasajo, cecina, chorizo and ribs off the grill, served with handmade tortillas, salsa, onion and cilantro.
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The tlayuda: black beans, tasajo, chorizo, quesillo, cecina and avocado on a corn tortilla toasted on the comal.
5/8
Corn, cacao, mamey seed and cacao flower, beaten with water until the flower raises a white, lumpy foam.
6/8
Mole, memelas, enfrijoladas and eggs to order in the dining rooms of a market with more than 250 tenants.
7/8
Santiago Matatlán, the "world capital of mezcal": agave hearts cooked in underground ovens, then crushed, fermented and distilled.
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