Floating in the turquoise bays of Huatulco and emerging just for a fresh coconut and garlic shrimp heads is my perfect beach day. Find some favorites from past trips in these posts. El Cazador, Pochutla. Well, replace the church with a family-owned seafood restaurant and sign me up for service every Sunday at El Cazador. We ordered a whole red snapper the local fish of the day , more shrimp, and a mixed ceviche which included lengua de perro, a mollusk collected from the rocks in these parts that tastes a little like abalone and looks like a mini vagina just being real.
Jalil Restaurant Bar , Mazunte. I can vouch for the location, quick service, and camarones al mojo de ajo at this place. Do you need much more? Find your cacao sesame tostadas made with criollo corn here oh the sweet, savory things I could do with them. The tostada vendor has other flavors as well like nopal, moringa, and beets.
Nearby is a woman with packages of dried mango and other tropical fruits that definitely beat the Trader Joes version, one comes covered in sticky chamoy. There are textile and body product vendors here too. It looks like people were eating a memela topped with nopales and jamaica, which looked good but I was more in the mood for a passion fruit agua.
I get my veggies mostly through juices from beach towns in Mexico as there are often not a lot of raw veggie options on menus.
The green juice here hit the spot. For a good coffee made with beans from the region, hit this corner stand on the Zocalo. The water is so transparent snorkeling masks are unnecessary. The mango stands and the peacocks still guard the entrance. This time we were taken to a restaurant called Tres Hermanos, where the chef Ilda tempted us with lobsters, but not being that hungry we settled for a ceviche, which was fine.
