food

Chilean food is boring. That is the sad truth given the vast range and high quality of the fruits and vegetables. The seafood choice alone should be enough to make this the most famous of all nations for preparing equisite crab and bass dishes. Not so. The four most common ingredients here are salt, vinegar, lemon and more salt.

Nonetheless, the scene is improving rapidly. Ignore the vast swaths of McDonalds and Pizza Hut which make Santiago seem like a weird mutation of some old US City and focus on the traditional dishes which are nearly always healthy, cheap and served in xlarge portions.

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Pastel de Choclo