A recent Yahoo! article sparked my attention.
Is This the Best Burger in America? I read it and instantly started researching the art of hamburger making and what in the world Umami means to dinner plates world wide. The new Umami Burger sounds so delicious that I almost fainted from hunger. This might have something to do with my current living/food situation. I live in El Salvador and our hamburgers have one thin slice of poor quality meat. Its a very sad hamburger. One kind of cool thing about our hamburgers is that they are served with cucumber slices instead of pickles. I love pickles. Love them. bread and butter, sweet, sour, kosher, love them. But the cucumber is a nice change and gives the hamburger a fresh, crisp edge. Its a very hip hamburger.
I will admit that I'm not a food critic. Not even close. I don't have the experience or education or the refined palatte of a food critic. I'm just a normal girl that likes food and happens to think the idea of going to restaurants and then informing the masses on the great food of our time sounds intriguing. So how does one become a food blogger? I assume, like anything else, its with practice. So here I will attempt to update you on the finer and not so finer foods of El Salvador.
Oh and for those of you that are curious: umami: its the fifth taste, you know, after sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Its what happens when you sprinkle parmesean cheese on top of your spaghetti sauce. Umami just makes everything taste better.
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Yesterday, I went to La Teja. I go there a lot and they have a wide variety of food so you'll see a lot of La Teja on this page. They have four different restaurants that are all in the same place. Like a food court. If the food court was beautiful and open air with a view of the mountains. 
onfused. So I asked him to write it down. Carambola. According to wiki, its a star fruit. I was interested to see how wiki described it because I was at a lost. Apparently, so is wiki. They said the taste is almost incomparable but it was most like a cross between an apple, a pear, and a citrus fruit. I'm not sure I agree with that but I don't know how else to describe it. Except that it looks like a star. 
I will admit that the rice soup mixture looks a lot more appetizing the day its made. This soup has been hanging out in our kitchen for three or four days. My roommate makes it at least once a week. It is soup, rice, a little pit of tomatoes and green peppers, and potatoes. She sprinkles some magic seasoning in it as well. I think the magic seasoning is chicken flavoring. But I'm not a hundered percent. She showed me how to make it once... that was an adventure. To try to be fair to the roommate, I'll post a picture of the soup the day its made as soon as I can. 
Tonight, I went with my good friend Erin to eat at Pollo Campero. Literally translated- Country Chicken. This chicken is probably some of the best fried chicken in the world. Its a little greasy and probably not healthy at all, but people love this chicken so much that they will literally buy bags of it, take it on a plane, and fly it home (to wherever their home may be). I'm not super comfortable with chicken thats been sitting out through the duration of a long plane trip, but for Pollo? I can see how people jump to the conclusion that flying fried chicken home is not only a good idea, but a necessity. 
I got the Menu Campero. This includes two pieces of fried chicken, fries, and a soda. Erin ordered up a torta and a soda. The torta is more or less a chicken sandwich... but with beans, mayonaise, Guatamala (my new word for guacamole), tomatoes, lettuce, and a very small chicken patty. You basically have to tear all of the bread away to find the chicken, which is exactly what Erin did. Oh i should have got a picture of that. Picture a plate with a bunch of bread and a sad little piece of chicken. Great, now you know. 