GASTRONOMY

In Tuxtla Gutierrez you can try delicious dishes prepared with various ingredients and seasonings, such as sopa de pan (bread soup) and pasta with olives, raisins, prunes, hard-boiled egg and almonds. Other local favorites include cochito (marinated pork), chanfaina estilo soconusco (lamb organs served with rice), chicharrones con patashete (pork rinds with tepary beans), and the traditional tamales with chipilin leaves. To wash it down we recommend you try the pozol (a fermented corn beverage often prepared with cocoa) or a refreshing tascalate (a chocolate drink). As for dessert, you can indulge in coyol con dulce (coyol sweets), wafers made with egg whites, amaranth puxinu, and caramel, guava, bottle gourd, pumpkin seed and peanut sweets