Where can one find the best chicharrones in SD?
The best chicharrones in SD? On the SD-Bani highway, before you reach San Cristobal, lots of stands, cooked right there. You buy the chunk you want and they chop it as you watch, by the pound.
Where can one find the best chicharrones in SD?
Where can one find the best chicharrones in SD?
"Why, at the Jumbo cafeteria, of course," said no Dominican ever. LOL
Forgive me....I'd like to play Devils's advocate here for a second.
I too get a little angry when i get charged a different price for things, but i learned a long time ago not to let it bother me. I try and put myself in people's shoes...even if they're shoes are too small and stink a little. let me give you an example.
On a very rare occasion i will take a public taxi between Cabarete and Sosua. I know they charge something like 25 pesos for the trip (i can't remember exactly), but I always give them 40 or 45 pesos. Why? Well, for one thing, 20 extra pesos is only U.S .50 cents. And secondly, because i'm in the service industry, i know how much a little extra money goes for picking people's mood up...it can make their day, and it can also make their mood change instantly and they smile more. I always try and give a little extra. but I don't give a little extra because i have much money...i don't. Not remotely. Remember, I work for $8000 pesos (US $200) a month just like everyone else in the DR. It's just that, a little extra money really brightens people's day up.
I know this is a moot point at this stage of the thread, but, being half Dominican and working in the DR for $US 200 ($8000 pesos) a month, a little tipping is very much appreciated (more so then in the US or Europe), even if its in the guise of being overcharged. I know, i know...it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth as well. But you got to remember, these people are working for pennies compared to what many people make elsewhere, and they're living in sub-standard conditions that 99% of the people on this board could never live in. Not everyone has a hot water tank and A/C. Nor do many people working on the street have much more then a dirt floor and an outhouse, and very poor plumbing and almost non-existent electricity because, let's face it, they don't have a back-up generator and live in a condo complex that makes sure these things work.
I'm not trying to make you feel like its ok to be ripped off and be charged a completely different price, i'm just trying to get you to understand that Dominicans have many mouths to feed and very little to subsist on, and that an extra 20 pesos for them goes a long way. I would suggest that, maybe, turning the cheek in these situations and just relaxing. Remember, at the end of the day, 20 pesos is not going to break or make your day, but for many Dominicans, it can actually make their day by having an extra 20 pesos.
Again, i'm not saying its ok to rip people off, but when you see the amount of long hours these people on the street put in everyday, 6 & 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, with no such thing as "Vacation pay" or "Sick days off," and also the amount of mouths that are being fed by their meager salaries, and children being clothed and sent to school...i often think, "There, but for the grace of someone, go I."
Love Frank
The best chicharrones in SD? On the SD-Bani highway, before you reach San Cristobal, lots of stands, cooked right there. You buy the chunk you want and they chop it as you watch, by the pound.
You're missing out, bronzie. Those guys on the street have good deals and the best food.
Best foood? I've eaten at several street vendors from Sosewer to SDO, and while some of the fare might be tasty, its hardly what I'd qualify as "best food". some of that Sheit is downright scary. No telling how long some of it has been hanging, sweating, and fermenting in the heat. Wouldn't think twice about lacing it to the bottoms of my shoes and save the soles from wearing out. Not to mention; almost every time the wife (Dominicana), eats at one of these establishments, she becomes ill.
Where can one find the best chicharrones in SD?
"Why, at the Jumbo cafeteria, of course," said no Dominican ever. LOL
15 pesos. Traumatized by 15 pesos.
What the OP fails to understand is that if you buy your chicken at a pollera, as the business most likely does, it may fluctuate from day to day. Why should the vendor absorb that?
I never ordered food or ate where the prices were not displayed. I simply went someplace else.
You're missing out, bronzie. Those guys on the street have good deals and the best food.
In the DR, prices displayed. Where are you living?
Who's talking about saving me money? I don't care about the price, I don't mind paying more
as long as the food is good and fresh. I don't know what you are talking about the food being
fresher in the streets, when one of my sister's a few years ago, was sick as a dog from eating
street food. Vomiting, severe stomach pains and diarrhea all night from eating chicharrones
from a street vendor.
Street vendors are just regular people selling food on the streets. Don't make it out
to be like they are something extraordinary.
Better quality and fresher than a cafeteria in a supermarket? No way!
Not to mention the sanitary conditions and the food out there in the heat..... Where DO they to go the bathroom???
I even wonder about that with the hot dog vendors in NYC.
I went to the malecon one time some years ago and saw street vendors preparing
chicken and fish to fry. You had to see the swarm of flies that were on the meat as
he was cutting it into pieces. I felt nauseated from just observing.