| Getting Cheap Food with Local Currency |
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Food sold in pesos –bread at the Empresa Cubana del Pan, fruits and vegetables at agropecuarios (agricultural markets) or full meals from someone’s living-room window such as pizza or cajitas (take-out meals in small boxes)- is very kind on the wallet. |
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| Cooking at Home |
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Cooking at home is cheap and fun. Hit the market and host a dinner party. |
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| Light Food Outside |
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-Always carry Cuban pesos (which can be easily changed in Cadeca banks). Pesos are good for icecream, peanuts, egg sandwiches, fruit shakes, bread, fruits, vegetables and above all peso pizzas.
- Keep a spare plastic bag (a rarity in Cuba) and fill it up at bakeries and fruit markets.
-Keep an eye out of 24-hour peso stalls which usualy congregate around hospitals.
-If you are fortunate enough to stumble upon an as-much-as-you-can-eat buffet, wrap up your leftlovers in a napkin...
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| For vegetarians |
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The restaurants listed below provide great and welcomed variety to the same old pork/chicken/rice/bean scenario:
-Biki Vegetarian Restaurant (Infanta&San Lázaro, Centro Habana-Vedado border).
It has dozens of sellections daily. Be aware that the staff at this restaurant and the branch on Calzada have developed the nasty habit of charging foreigners indiscriminate Convertible prices. This is a peso restaurant; don´t let them bully you into paying Convertibles.
-Restaurant Vegetariano...
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| Cuban Food |
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Cuban and International dishes are served. Chicken, fish and pork are the usual meat dishes. Hot vegetables are not as plentiful as in Canada. Generally there are ample supplies of lettuce, tomatoes. All kinds of tropical fruits (papaya, pineapple, grapefruit, oranges & Guava) are available along with yogurt and juices. The National food is called ajiaco ( a root vegetable stew cooked with meat, especially pork). Other typical foods are lechon asado en pua (broiled pork cooked over an open...
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