RE: Comment Contest: Tell Us About Your Love for Seafoods!
Hi, everyone. In my town, Cumaná, we have a great variety of seafood. It's not affordable these days, so i will speak in the past tense again. Once upon a time, we (anyone could afford it) used to go to a certain part of town called "El Monumento" to try the traditional Coctelitos.
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Unable to settle for one specific seafood, cumaneses put all shells and crustaceans together in a crazy recipe. So, basically you had any you could name in a plastic cup like this
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They are caught fresh from the sea and boiled in front of you. They were mixed with soy sauce, English sauce, onion sauce, ketchup, hot pepper, and lime. They had mussels, oysters, scallops, loco, cockle, shrimps, octopus, squid, etc.
On holidays you had to stand in line to be served. Every visitor wanted to try a Coctelito before leaving town. All of them were convinced their sex life would be better afterwards!
(although you could order a glass container to go)
Awww. It breaks my heart everytime you say you can't have it at this time. But thank you for telling the world a story about your culture and for speaking up about what's happening in your country. I feel for you, Venezuelans. We have our share of struggles here in the Philippines, too. We have to be strong and to let the world know still that we are beautiful people despite our governments. Stay strong and resilient through this trials. That will surely pass and I am hoping for the best for your people.
Thank you so much. That's very kind of you. We are trying, really hard. But, it's not easy. Most young and talented people are leaving. Can't blame them. It's either leave or stay and die (out of frustration, disease, crime, police, you name it).