Lets do a MONKEY SHAKE!

[29palms]

Great natural fruit drinks all over Central America, and El Salvador is no exception. I love the natural orange juice down there, so different than ours. Oranges down there don't look orange, they look GREEN. Well, on the way out of SAL, I was looking around for a place where I could enjoy one last natural juice drink before leaving. I stumbled upon a cafe just down the gate number 8 to the right called CAFE SOMETHING????? I wish I remembered the name, but it was a fancy looking bar, food/restaurant cafe mixture. I want to say CAFE Tivuana or something like that based on the waitress's airport badge identifying where in the airport she worked. I was looking at the menu, really looking for a natural orange juice when I stumbled upon a MONKEY SHAKE at 4.95 a pop. I hesitantly asked to see how big the glass was, and she pulled out a GIGANTIC cup, like a slurpee big gulp if you remember those. Man, this thing had a mixture of everything you could think of. Papaya, Pineapple, Orange Juice, idon't know what and I don't know what else she put in that big cup, but it did the trick. I got a good fix on that thing called a MONKEY SHAKE down in a Central American country called EL SALVADOR.

[29palms]

Great restaurants across the street from Intercontinental Hotel SAL. MISTER DONUT not only serves donuts, but they serve all kinds of breakfast items. Plantain, rice and beans (Casamiento), eggs, cheese, empanadas, tamales. There is also TONY ROMAS. Best ribs around, sports bar, nice joint. I've seen them in Acapulco, Manila and many other places. Intercontinental is right across Multiplaza, a bunch of interesting food courts and neat stores. Another interesting food court place I saw was a place called D'ELOTE. Everything there is made of LOTE, or CORN. Papusas, tamales, fried corn, their own version of HORCHATA. Then I saw a joint called PAVO CAJUN. A place that makes turkey sandwiches with a mixture of condiments unlike what we have. They put different sauce with cut up cabbage, same thing they throw on their papusas. Their mall looks bigger than any mall I've seen here in the states. I compare their malls to that of Manila. You'd be surprised to see the sizes of malls down there.

[spongebue]

When I flew back from BRU, I was parched. Walked by a smoothie place, and that sounded absolutely amazing. But of course, for an American like me, I was left disappointed. I got a large hoping to split it with the wife, but it was rather small (I know Americans are known for having enormous portion sizes). Not only that, but their smoothies are more like a cool juice blend. Not the half fruit/half ice that's ridiculously cold and refreshing (without letting the ice dilute the drink too much). Oh well, it helped at least. And we got first class soon after, so that was also nice.