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- The best guinea pig in Ecuador. It's not in Quito Baños or Cuenca. The best cuy in Ecuador is Gualaceo, which is 30 minutes outside Cuenca.
At Mercado 25 de Junio at stall CA01 Mrs. Rosario sells a small one here for $10. She also sells roast chicken. Nothing else. She’s the only one here that still wears the Ecuadorian traditional dress. The pollera skirt. So you can pick her out immediately.
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he doesn't do the sides. But fortunately, right next to her are Maria and Narcissa and they have all the sides like potatoes cooked in a pepa de sambo sauce which is a pumpkin seed aji, mote and chulpi, which is a type of corn with fava beans.
She cooks guinea pig to order. Tell her what size you want she gives you the price. It took about 25 minutes for us to get this cuy.
Cuy is one of the most traditional Ecuadorian foods. It was considered to be a gift from the gods by the Inca and Cañari people. And today Ecuadorians have still held that tradition.
It is revered as something that you have at a special occasion. It might be a baptism, it might be someone graduating from college. But also sometimes families will come here, and have cuy together.
Maybe eating guinea pig is difficult if you had one as a child. However, this is not the same kind of guinea pig and instead the size of a rabbit.
What does guinea pig taste like? Well it mostly tastes like chicken thighs with just a touch of rabbit. Yes guinea pig tastes like chicken.
I've eaten cuy in Ecuador before roasted over charcoal. I've also eaten cuy in Peru where it was deep fried guinea pig but I found it a bit greasy.
Mrs.Rosario's cuy recipe is easy. She marinates this only in garlic and salt and then bastes it with achiote oil.
It is so good I really do believe the best guinea pig in Ecuador is in Gualaceo.
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00:49 Gualaceo Ecuador
02:02 Traditional Ecuadorian Food
02:45 How big are guinea pig in Ecuador
03:40 What do you eat with Guinea Pig
05:21 What does guinea pig tastes like?
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Thanks for another wonderful, insightful vlog Ayngelina. Love your videos.
Thank you so much for commenting. It really means so much when people respond, even when it's bad because at least I know there is someone on the other end. 💜
Muy interesante video, me encanto la manera con la que das a conocer este plato típico, un fuerte abrazo! Att: Pedro (amigo de Andres)
Muy gentil, gracias Pedro 💜
Seu vídeo é muito bom. Gostei da forma natural e resumida da apresentação. Deu vontade de experimentar o Cuy.
muito obrigado, é muito gentil da sua parte
Love your video! Enjoy my beautiful Ecuador 🇪🇨!
Oh thank you! I’ll be posting videos all summer.
No thank you I can't wait to see your videos. I miss my place came to the US at 5 year's old haven't gone back since! So thank you for all you do. Keep them coming. P.s try to get to the Galapagos!
You need to watch more of my videos. I've been to the Galapagos 3 times! I hope you subscribe :)
Love it!
So glad!
Looks delicious, will have to find some
Let me know how it goes
wooooww You make me hungry....
love your vlogs Am Ecuadorian too going to Ecuador in July....
Amazing news, where are you going?
@@ayngelina am from BIBLIAN - CANAR PROVINCE
Thank you for this video! We are in Cuenca and earlier today we tried Cuy for the first time.. it tasted like fishy. Totally did not like it, it didn't taste anything like chicken. They charged me boo-koo bucks for it too! I will try the place in your video tomorrow, thank you so much for your videos! 🙋♀️💕
Oh no! It should definitely not taste fishy. Chicken or rabbit definitely but never fishy. So sorry to hear this 😬
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GREAT enjoy .
Have you had it in Gualaceo?
Love cuy lol
yesss
Me encanta como disfrutas la comida yo no gusto del cuy pero el resto si creo que chulpi es el maiz para hacer canguil ( popcorn) y ese choclo con habas "choclo tanda" o "choclo mote" depende de la región 🖐️🙏
ay no sabia que chulpi era el maiz para canguil
Yep, food vloggers eat cold food 😂 great they reheated it for you!
At first I resisted but it's a meat that needs to be eaten warm.
Enjoy 😍
Thank you!
All the Ecuador travel + food videos here --> bit.ly/Ecuador_Videos Where should I go next?
America needs to broaden its meat palette to include guinea pig, buffalo, horse, deer, elk, etc, etc.
100% I'd add goat, as it's much more sustainable than pork and beef.
@@ayngelina Yes! Got would be great :)
Yes! A fellow dark meat lover! I won’t even eat white meat unless it’s in a stew.
It's so dry! And yes it's a bit fattier but also more nutrients, and I think iron?
Ecuador es mi pais
Uno de los paises mejores.
How easy is it to eat carnivore (no seed oils, grans, leaf greens) in quito?
No seed oils would be difficult
Anyone peep the couple in the back, I don’t think they were happy to be recorded
No they were fine. I actually talked to them that day, super nice people.
Ayngelina, Ill stick with BK Whoppers and hot french fries and an ice cold vanilla shake.
Hahahaha to each their own.
Those poor Guinea Pigs. I don't ever want to be a Guinea 🐷.
Ayngelina that is not true what you are saying your info is incorrect cuy it's not a traditional food for all ecuadorians its mainly there in the region of the Andes not every where in the country
You are correct, it is something eaten in the highlands and you can also find it in some areas of the coast. Because of the diverse geography I don't know if there's a single traditional food that you can find absolutely everywhere in Ecuador.
Leave it to an Ecuadorian to try to teach foreigners about the regionalism and bigotry that exists in Ecuador. That’s why i prefer to mingle with tourists and foreigners when i visit Ecuador, because Ecuadorians themselves pride on their hatred toward other Ecuadorians (bizarre). Look, if a group of Ecuadorians does or eats something, then yes, that is an Ecuadorian thing. People eat alligators is Louisiana, but I don’t correct people who say it’s a North American thing just because I’ve never done it. Some People in the USA eat it, so I agree it’s an American thing, although I’ve never eaten it myself.
@@eezawch4447 there have been so many Ecuadorians who have been kind and are the ones who teach me about their food I wouldn't want people to avoid them as that's the best part of travel. And if you look at the comments on the videos so many Ecuadorians both here and abroad have been very kind. But yes there is a bit of regionalism, I've noticed people tell me here about the snobbiness of Cuencanos or how people are in Quito and of course the jokes of people in Loja eating dogs. I'd say we also have that in Canada. I don't think anyone would ever agree to a single food being truly Canadian.
I can't get past the head and the cute little feet. Not keen on rabbit either. I think it's the appearance for me. If it was mixed in with other food I probably wouldn't know the difference 😉
I completely understand that. I think some modern restaurants are now using it in ways so people can try it without viewing it as an animal. I went to Cotacachi recently to try a colada de cuy which was a cuy soup but turns out they just give you the soup with a quarter leg of cuy on the side 🤣
@@ayngelina lol
lol ... we had guinea pigs as pets when we were kids.
If it makes you feel better these are so much bigger, like rabbits.
I would try it if it were cut up and put in a taco or something
So there are some restaurants now using it as an ingredient rather than just it as the main. I'm going to try cuy ice cream in Quito
@@ayngelina wuuut?! Oh, I can't wait to hear your review of that
Kenapa ya wajah orang Ekuador, Peru, Bolivia, Nikaragua mirip orang Dayak?
karena mereka juga merupakan kelompok masyarakat adat
@@ayngelina iya awalnya aku bingung juga tau penduduk Amerika Mongoloid
Saya banyak subscribe akun TH-cam orang equador
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I have lots of vegetarian content if that makes things easier.
@@ayngelina I'm not a vegetarian, I'm just an owner of 4 adorable guinea pigs. They're pets not something to eat.
@@katrinabackman1274 I can absolutely understand why it would be difficult for you to see. But in Ecuador they aren't pets, they are an important part of their culinary culture.
They also roast in Peru and cook it many different ways and the sauces are way better
I've also had it there several times but prefer Ecuador but you're right Perú has great salsas
No thank you 🤢
Have you tried it?
Nope...!
Have you tried it?
@@ayngelina I would try it and I would also try snake, gator, tarantula, but I think I would not eat grubs.
Keep the food vids coming, Kristin
@@k_and_m8745 I think I have grubs coming up. I'll try it but I'm not looking forward to it
Guinea pig is an unclean animal and not for human consumption.
Not everyone is comfortable with eating cut and that's ok but this is a revered animal in Ecuador. Here guinea pig are raised for human consumption. It's no different than eating rabbit and about the same size.
@@ayngelina I know what your are saying, but rabbit is also unclean. If ever you want to look up about clean and unclean animals - you could see what they are. Certain animals are really not to be eaten by us. And other animals are considered "clean" and okay to be eaten by people. But.....it might be the first time you heard this. Blessings to you! Thanks for being so responsive to all of us. You are really wonderful!
@@CanadianVacations I hear what you're saying but you know in India they don't believe we should be eating beef. And many cultures don't agree with eating pork. And many people don't think we should eat any animals at all.
My general rule for eating animals is that as long as they are not endangered (bluefin tuna, turtle eggs etc) I am open to the experience. But I understand everyone has their own level of comfort.
Some people are so ignorant. Saying unclean animal.what animal its clean for you.pigs are the most unclean animals.and almost every body eats
@@calleheras3727 Yes exactly pig is one of the most unclean animals It was designed to clean the earth. It is a "cleaner:" This animal is linked to lots of diseases that people have after eating it. Pig and guinea pig - not for people to eat - even so many people do.
One day when health problems hit that is when hopefully people may start to learn about the wrong foods that caused their problems. Good foods - will give you health.
This is HORRID. ASA child, Guinea Pigs were my pets, and I loved them!., The thought of eating them is repulsive!!!
I can understand why it would be disturbing to you if you had them as a pet.
Eating meat is a complicated issue and cuy is not a pet in Ecuador so they don’t have an issue with it in the Andes as it was a food source. Beef are pork aren’t native to the area and were brought by colonizers.
Too many other things to eat to resort to eating a little rodent.
Cuy is actually expensive, it's not something you resort to but it's a treat!
@@ayngelina I will have to trust you on that.