ITALIAN MARKET (WPVI) — At Cafe Duskaia, Meyling Morena is serving up some of Nicaragua’s most popular dishes right in the heart of the Italian Market.
The chancho con yuca is the most popular dish on the menu.
A plantain leaf acts as the platter for a mountain of yuca, pork, slaw and pico de gallo.
She hand makes tortillas for quesillos, a popular Nicaraguan street food with cheese, onions and sour cream.
The fritanga is grilled and marinated meat, served with popular sides like rice and beans, fried plantains and cabbage salad.
She also makes the Nicaraguan favorite, Nacatamales, a corn and spice mix cooked down then scooped onto a plantain leaf, topped with veggies and rice then wrapped and boiled for 3 hours.
Meyling is bringing her country’s coffee culture too
She owns a plot on her family’s coffee farm, and the coffee she roasts and sells here comes from beans grown by female farmers in Nicaragua.
With the cafe, Meyling hopes to teach people about the coffee farm to cup process and the northern Nicaragua mountain towns where the beans are grown.
If you want to drink like a native, order your coffee hot with a triple strain process.
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