Around the store
Small store, deep shelves. Here is what you are walking into.
Chiles and spices
A wall of them, in packets weighed out and priced by hand. Chiles whole, ground, and broken. Achiote, canela, orégano, comino.
You buy the amount you need for what you are making, which is cheaper than a jar and tastes like more.
Remedies
The teas and herbs people grew up with. Manzanilla, hierbabuena, té de limón, árnica, sábila and the rest, in the same hand-labelled packets.
If you know what you came for it is on the wall. If you do not, this site is where we explain it.
Pan and dulcería
Pan dulce and bolillo in the case. Candy along a whole run of shelving, piñatas hanging above it, and what you need for a party underneath.
Nine countries, not one
The snacks, drinks and pantry brands are Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Honduran. That is who shops here, so that is what is stocked.
