El Salvador Street Food | Trying SALVADORAN FOOD (Part 2)

Hey everyone, this is Steve from Rockstar Eater coming to you with another rocking episode. We are going to be continuing on with our Central American food tour and guess where I'm at again? I am back here at the El Salvador street food market that's here in Los Angeles on Vermont between 11th and 12th Street, the El Salvador Corridor. Here's one of the food spots that not too many people really tell you about but I'm going to show it to you guys and I've had an episode here before in the past but I wasn't able to really try everything so I'm back here and I want to try some more stuff today. So today is going to be the El Salvador episode of the Central American food tour and if you guys have missed the first episode then click on the icon above so that you can be directed to that other El Salvador street food episode that I did here in the same exact spot. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to show you what El Salvador street food looks like especially here in LA, one of the biggest markets that you will find outdoors here in Los Angeles. So if this is something that's new to you then stick all the way to the end of this episode so that you can see the overview of this amazing El Salvador market stuff that's going on here in LA and also if you haven't subscribed already please take the time right now to subscribe. Do it right now. Hit that subscribe button right now since you have a few seconds before the show starts you'll be getting these episodes on a weekly basis that you absolutely don't want to miss. Last time when I was here I started all the way over there on the 12th street which is south in this direction so what I'm going to do today is to start on 11th street and work my way that way and there's going to be so much more to see because there's like a lot more stuff here than when I was here last time. More stands and more people so it's really getting busy now. So you're peeling the beans oh okay okay okay let me see this oh wow okay so these are new beans right are they red beans red beans okay okay so if you guys are here on the street get it from her they sell a lot of these beans here yeah like all this stuff here on 11th street wasn't here when I was here last time. So you got like your honey and your beans and is this plantain okay plantain all right plantains oh wow what is that is that like some sort of plant or something that looks interesting. So this is called the riguaz it's made out of corn they make it here as one of the the cool street foods here on Vermont and I think I'm going to go ahead and get one of these actually sounds great. Okay I think I'm going to eat some cheese with it as well oh this is good oh yeah can't miss out on the riguaz when you're here delicious excellent food here in this El Salvador street market can't wait to see what else is down here. This market is so crazy packed today there's a lot a lot of people it's probably like three to four times more people than when I was here last time but shows you what it could look like on a very busy weekend and today's Sunday afternoon so it's definitely going to be peak peak time right now. I think what they're making here is like shaved ice this is a really popular stand so many people are here ordering the shaved ice which you can get in many different flavors like pineapple, coconut, vanilla, strawberry, tamarind. This is a ice shaved ice kind of a dessert drink that's very popular not just in El Salvador but in a lot of Central American, South American countries as well and this is the first time I'm going to be eating this I don't think I've had it before so I think what I have to do is get some of this shaved ice try to go all the way to the bottom and just dig out wow nice tamarind flavor so you really got to dig all the way down there in order to get your mango since all the way down there I think that's what I'm going to try to do is get the mango all the way in the bottom the drink with the straw you can kind of get the bottom out oh that's a really nice mango flavor to it so remember that respado it's a really popular stand here at the El Salvador street market so many people are lined up for this drink so if you're here too you don't know what else to really get if you want are kind of wanting like that shaved ice then this is the spot you got to go what's your name donald okay steve good to meet you okay all right here we go wow that's a good taste I can't how do you describe how it tastes like it tastes kind of like like a pear that's really soft mushy that's how exactly how it tastes like and apparently from what I heard there's a legend behind it that this thing actually helps to cure cancer I'm not a doctor so don't take my word for it but if you want to give it a shot if you have cancer you got nothing to lose right oh my look at that what what is this what kind of what kind of fish is this is it wow man that's a big fish oh my goodness look how big of that thing is okay okay so it's like almost like a jerky yeah like jerky yes you know one of the great things about this street market is that there are actually some tables where you can sit down and enjoy your food because depending on what kind of street food places you go to sometimes they don't even have that so you're just stranded out eating your food standing up or sitting somewhere on the sidewalk I know how ghetto is that huh you guys remember I had pupusas last time here not at this stall but they make a lot of pupusas here which are extremely popular here at the El Salvador market when you walk down this street whether you're going north or south you're going to pretty much see like vendors everywhere selling a lot of similar stuff and a lot of unique stuff as well and you just kind of have to take a look at what interests you like when you look to your left and your right you're going to see vendors selling fruits and nuts and dried fish all this produce and then of course you're going to sell see people selling like fresh stuff like the pupusas and the yuca chicharron and just even raw stuff as well like the clam cocktails which are really amazing here so you just kind of take a look and see what it is that interests you around here that's really good there's a little bit of something for everybody so I think what I'm going to do is actually go to one of these booths and to give you an overview of the things that they sell at one of these sample booths okay so this is like a bread that's made out of cheese yeah okay and then what about this one that just has like um honey in it inside of okay so it's like bread with honey right and then this is like what like a beef piece of beef oh okay is this safe to eat yes okay all right so you got some beef there and then this is like dried shrimp or no it's already cooked already cooked oh oh okay got it got it and then we got some cheese right here right cheese okay and got some red beans right there I think they were selling this like you know on the street as like the stocks as well this is like fruit what is this fruit called okay so you have to eat the stuff that's around the seed inside oh okay whoa okay wow okay oh wow okay awesome okay so what's this one called okay so this also has a seed in the center right okay got it it's also fruit uh what are these like plantain chips okay got it so they're supposed to be crispy I think crunchy all right yeah so that's pretty much everything here the last thing that I'm going to try today is this food called the pastelito which is kind of like the salvadorian version of empanada it's deep fried so it's crunchy and then inside has some chicken and then on the side it comes with this kind of a salad which is sour it's with some of that cabbage some carrots as well as some jalapeno so I think it's going to be a little spicy too okay let's see what it tastes like first without any of the the salad or the cabbage okay that looks pretty nice oh that's good you know it's it's it's um you can still kind of taste like the crispiness of it even though it has some sauce like smothered all over it but then the chicken on the inside is what's really good oh I love it now I'm going to get some together with some of this gordito together just like that now it's like you can taste the coldness of the salad along with a little bit of that spiciness and the sourness gives a really good kick to it so definitely you got to eat it together like that if you love empanadas you like everything I just described right now then this is definitely a spot you got to hit up here at this marketplace wow guys great time great time indeed anyways if you're in the LA area then be sure to catch this spot because it's a food spot that doesn't really get as much attention as some of the other places like Grand Central Market and you know like Farmer's Market and all that stuff if you are really open to trying some really good Latin American food Central American food here in LA then you can't miss out on the El Salvador street food corridor which is between 11th and 12th street on Vermont anyways if you enjoy what I'm doing here on this show then give me a thumbs up and also comment on the section below if you've tried this food before or maybe you want to recommend any other great Salvadoran food that we should all try and then finally guys like I said please subscribe to Rockstar Eater because that's the best way to support this show all you got to do is hit that subscribe button as well as the notification bell and you'll be set to get these episodes on a weekly basis well I hope you have a rocking day today and that you'll try some of this rocking Salvadoran street food here in Los Angeles sometime soon and be sure to click on the other videos on the screen so that you can be directed to some of the other Central American country foods that I've done here in Los Angeles so you can see what it's like so I will see you in the next video