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| - My wife and I are planning to go to Colombia soon. We figured we would at least see what kind of food we would be looking at. La Tiendita offered that glimpse.
For lunch on 03/03/2018 my wife ordered the La Tiendita Platter. Basically it was some roasted chicken, maduros, red beans, and rice. My wife liked it.
For me, I ordered the Cartagena fish. It was a grilled/baked fillet of fish with coconut milk, rice, salad, and patacones (plantain chips). It was good. For me, being Asian, I am usually eating coconut milk as part of a curry or sweet. While this was quite different, as the coconut milk did not have a strong sweet or spicy taste, it was still good. I would have perhaps preferred the grilled fish without the coconut milk, but it was still good.
My wife's nephew, Tam, from Vietnam, was with us, and he had the pescado frito. It was a pan-fried fish fillet with some patacones, rice, and salad. He says that the fish was good, but perhaps a little dry. Maybe, with a lemon wedge, or some kind of a side of chili sauce would have liked it more. He had a beef empanada along with his meal, and liked it.
My wife and I also shared the arepa a la casa, cheese arepa. It was good. It was what we expected.
The thing that perhaps that really made my day, and perhaps that of Tam, were the juices. We both ordered a guanabana juice (soursop juice). I had it with water. It was good. Tam had his with milk. He said it was as good as what he used to have on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam (odd kind of comparing Colombian food to Vietnamese food). In any case, it was good. My wife liked it also, and wished she ordered one.
The waiter we had, a gentleman, was very attentive. This whole place does convey the feel that you are in Colombia.
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