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You can go to just about any town/city, large or small, and find a Mexican restaurant, but it is very difficult to find a pupuseria (Salvadoran cuisine).
Pupuserias are the first restaurants we look for when we travel. The food they offer is always so fresh and flavorful that I'm shocked they are so few and far between.
Is it because so few Americans have tried pupusas? How many here have tried and like pupusas?
It probably has more to do with the fact that the Salvadoran immigrants haven't spread out so much. There is a large population in the DC suburbs and pupuserias all over the place, some good and some meh. We don't have good Mexican food here, though. Maybe three places, pretty far apart, for that.
I dig them ..... there are a few good Salvadoran places here in the Phoenix metro ....... service always tends to be hit or miss, but the food is fantastic always
I suppose one of the factors might be the difficulty in making authentic pupusas. It's not like someone could just follow a recipe and they would make good pupusas - then open a successful pupuseria.
There are many on LI especially in heavy populated Hispanic areas such as Brentwood ,Central Islip and Bayshore. I have not had the pleasure of eating Salvadorian food except fried plantain's.
There is actually a Salvadorean - American restaurant in my town. The only thing that stinks about it is that the only Korean restaurant we had used to be located in that building, and they closed because of an illness in the family.
The pupusas were pretty good, and so were the rice and beans. The sauce and the slaw being tied into little plastic bags took some getting used to, but I am so glad to live in an area with ever-growing food diversity!
At some point or another pupusas will become the hip and trendy foodie food of the moment, and they'll be all over Food Network shows, and food trucks will sell them at 3 a.m. in bar districts at close, and everyone will be raving about them like they didn't just find out about them five minutes ago.
Pupusas are corn tortillas filled with refried beans and/or pork and/or cheese and/or loroco (an edible flower). They are cooked on a griddle to melt the cheese and cook the tortilla exterior. They are served with curtido (a cabbage relish) and a tomato-based sauce. The exterior has a nutty corn flavor like tortillas and the interior is hot and steamy.
I've been eating pupusas for the last twenty years. So, how's my description?
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