How Do You Eat Yours?!

After seeing in the New Year in La Paz, we have moved to Bolivia´s official capital in the south of the country: Sucre.

Sucre is a beautiful colonial city with whitewashed buildings (unlike the grey 1960s / 70s ones we saw in La Paz), and so far seems quite relaxed (again unlike the frenzy and pollution of La Paz, as depicted in the recent Bond film Quantum of Solace!). On arrival yesterday we put our new found skill in salteña-eating into practice... The Bolivian delicacies, salteñas, are like good old-fashioned Cornish Pasties (proper meat/chicken and potato filling, not gristle and gravy), with the additional fillings of an olive, boiled egg, and lots of juice (the latter being the tricky part). I have found the whole experience a bit like the old Cadburys Cream Egg adverts... How Do You Eat Yours?! The choices are endless (many involving getting covered chin to waist in juice), but having studiously watched the locals, the most effective methods seem to be either biting the end off and drinking the juice out before tackling the rest (if eating on the move), or delicately piercing a hole in the top with a teaspoon and scooping out the insides before eating the pastry (if in a salteñeria). Either way: yum!

Next culinary mission: to test out Sucre´s reputation as the chocolate capital of Bolivia...