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Living and travelling in South America from our base in Chile since 1997. I have personally experienced the extremes here, living in a shed without a bathroom in a poor dangerous part of town to the other extreme of having an elegant dinner with the President at the palace. This blog is about things that I have done or that have caught my attention here as well as travel information that may be useful.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Photos of Colombian Food Help

A have a very good friend living in Bogotá called Pedro Bonilla. He is a Colombian who lived in Chile a couple of years for work but has now gone back to his home country. I was lucky to spend a few days in Bogotá (Colombia) about a year and a half ago and of course I took a lot of photos while I was there.
One of the highlights of that trip to Colombia was when one of the days Pedro took me to a typical Colombian 'restaurant'. It wasn't your classic 'let's-rip-off-the-tourists-with-a cheesy-show' International restaurant that foreigners usually get sucked into. No, this was a small place tucked away in some hidden street away from the crowds. In Chile we would call it a 'picada'. A place only the locals know of to get food (or drink) that is good and cheap. It was the type of simple yet homely place that served food with the warm flavours and piled plates that would normally only come out of your mother's kitchen. Definitely not the scanty crap that artsy places try and impress you with when they serve you more grass and fluff decoration than the food itself (A pet hate of mine). I love to eat and eat well, and this restaurant satisfying my desire to try REAL Colombian dishes.

My problem is that I did write the names down of each dish and what it contained though I lost that piece of paper. So what you see below are photos of typical food from Colombia, but without the names. Does anyone know what they are called?

Ok, I could just ask my friend Pedro the names of each dish but I thought I would try and get a conversation going here about Colombian food instead.

Can anyone give the names of any of these dishes and/or their content?
Have you tried any of these?
What did you think of it?
If you haven't tried any of these, are there any you would like to try (or would prefer to avoid like the plague)?

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So, do you know what these are?

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5 Comments:

At Tue Mar 17, 10:23:00 PM, Blogger Woodward said...

I bumped into Pedro online tonight and asked him the names of the food.

They are as follows...
1. Papitas criollas
2. Chunchullos
3. Papa, arepa, yuca y carne
4. Cocido
5. Huesos de Marrano
6. Colitas en guiso
7. Sobrebarriga en Salsa

Finally I have their names!!!
Thanks Pedro!!

 
At Tue Apr 07, 02:24:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cool food or in other words keep up the great work!! keep smiling

 
At Wed Apr 08, 08:18:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

My son is doing a projedt at his school and needs some food from Colombian and we saw these pictures, can you tell us what some of the ingredients are in the food? We also need some drinks Thanks McGlones

 
At Mon Apr 13, 09:50:00 AM, Blogger Woodward said...

Hi,

Regarding Colombian drinks, you might want to check out our Typical Colombian Drinks Page.

And as for the ingredients, I'll need a (Colombian) local's help since I just ate what you see without really knowing how it was made. Can a reader help us out here?

Cheers.

 
At Mon Dec 14, 04:51:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

thank you for helping me

 

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