Breakfast at the Intercontinental hotel: lots of fresh fruit - pineapple, papaya, strawberries, melon, watermelon, apples and bananas. Fresh carrot juice. Green tea. Alas, no soy milk. I take a serving of Frosties just to get some B12, and at the hotel lobby I ask for soy milk for the next morning. They find the request unusual but will try to get some.
During the morning I went to buy some office supplies, and spotted some quick food stands. Luckily I speak Spanish. To my dismay, almost everything revolved around meat - meat enchiladas, meat tacos, you name it. The only difference in the dishes was the type of meat used. One stand also had a giant pot, in which large animal parts were cooking; really disgusting. One of the stands offered Mexican drinks, and I had horcheta for the first time. It was great and refreshing - like a mildly sweet and cinnamon-aromatic rice pudding. While sipping the horcheta I found that one of the stands offers, among the meat dishes, a quesadilla con hongos y queso. I asked for one without cheese, and it was excellent.
Lunch at a cafe near the local office, called El Ocho or something like that. Entree was a nice salad with tomatoes, cucumber, onion and lots of black sesame seeds, with a slightly sweet dressing, green colored, that I think was made of kiwifruit. Then I made a mistake and ordered hummus, which was a nice try, but nowhere close to the real thing. No tahini at all, I suspect no olive oil either, just ground garbanzos with some lemon juice. It came with toasted pitas sprinkled with zaatar, that were just fine.
The dessert surprised me. A sort of warm apple turnover, with puff pastry. No cheese, no cream, just a good dessert.
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