{"id":4833,"date":"2016-01-24T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T10:05:35","slug":"sunday-morning-in-juarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/sunday-morning-in-juarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning in Ju\u00e1rez"},"content":{"rendered":"

I needed produce and wanted more variety than what my veggie has (going into grapefruit withdrawal…), so I decided to do a mercado run this morning, but to the one in Ju\u00e1rez<\/a> for a change of scenery.<\/p>\n

I was out the door at about 8:00, was disappointed that the bakery wasn’t open so I could grab some pan dulce as an on-the-go breakfast, but was pleased to find the doughnut lady at the embarcadero doing a brisk business.<\/p>\n

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High tide this morning!<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve had more doughnuts since I got here in November (three!!!) than I’ve had in the past several years. They’re very light and fluffy, with cinnamon sugar. When I was in Durango, I saw doughnut vendors calling them ‘donuts,’, masculine (un donut, el donut), but here in Maz, they are ‘donas,’ so feminine (una dona, la dona). I had just enough time to enjoy it before a bus marked Ju\u00e1rez pulled up.<\/p>\n

It was a very quick ride and, knowing where I was going this time, I hopped off\u00a0before the bus started its very jerky stop-and-go ride through traffic in the heart of the market area. I decided to start with a tour of the tianguis (flea market). It was much larger than last time. I bought a blouse in the first aisle I passed. The lady wanted $40, I said $30, and we finally settled on $35. Fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The tianguis was very crowded, but I’ve learned ‘con permiso’ to elbow my way politely through a crowd. I felt so comfortable there, with all the wonderful odours and chatter and colourful goods. One man tried to sell me a dog leash and when I told him I didn’t have a dog, he said it would work for my husband. \u00a1Jajajajaja!<\/p>\n

Feeling a tad parched, I began to scope out the agua fresca vendors and finally conceded that no one had guava today. So I settled on lime, which was predictably very refreshing.<\/p>\n

Then, I could no longer ignore the siren call of grilled meat and onions. This was a mystery meat taco ‘con todo,’ to which I added salsa mexicana and guacamole (the thin liquidy stuff). The cook did ask me to confirm that my definition of ‘con todo’ included ‘picante’ (spicy) and I said yes. They weren’t spicy in the least, though! Soooo yummy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I then walked around Ju\u00e1rez a bit and made a discovery that surprised me. I found an indoor market just like the Pino Su\u00e1rez one in Centro! How did I miss it last time?! This market was almost only meat, which looked a lot more appealing than what I see in Centro. I need to go back with a cooler bag and ice! I also found public bathrooms in this market and except for the hand washing facilities being a bucket of soapy water everyone could plunge their hands in (yuck — thank goodness I had wipes!), I was very impressed by how clean and new the facilities were. I tipped the attendant $5.<\/p>\n

It was just past 10:00 by then and already getting very hot and uncomfortable. I was ready to go home. So I picked a produce vendor and spent a whopping $36 (do note my sarcastic tone) on this:<\/p>\n

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Funny how I never never noticed sweet potatoes last year, and now I have no trouble finding them.<\/p>\n

I’d promised myself a pulmon\u00eda ride to the embarcadero, so I flagged one down as I came out of the produce store and was quoted $50, which sounded fair. I saw a lot more from the back seat of the taxi than I do a bus and now I know how to get to Ju\u00e1rez on foot. It’s only 3.5KM down busy streets, so it’s ridiculous to take a bus there since I walk to Pino Su\u00e1rez and back and that’s 3KM round trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I needed produce and wanted more variety than what my veggie has (going into grapefruit withdrawal…), so I decided to do a mercado run this morning, but to the one in Ju\u00e1rez for a change of scenery. I was out the door at about 8:00, was disappointed that the bakery wasn’t open so I could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[855,794],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel","tag-markets","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}