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If you live in Santiago, you can count on seeing a number of things each time you leave your apartment and head into the city streets.
Graffiti
Stray dogs
Graffiti
Chilean couples who don't understand the concept of PDA
More graffiti
And sopaipilla carts
This delicious, piping hot treat will only set you back 100 Chilean pesos, which is just under a quarter.
The usual condiments you can find with a sopaipilla are mustard, ketchup and pebre de aji,
which is a spicy sauce of tomatoes, garlic, chile peppers and onion.
Sopaipillas are traditionally made with zapallo, which is a type of pumpkin.
However, what you buy on the street is not necessarily a homemade sopaipilla with zapallo.
Rather, it’s bought at a grocery store and then it’s fried in oil
and the oil doesn’t get changed very often. . .
But they’re still really delicious!
There is also a sweet version called sopaipillas pasadas that Chileans love to make on rainy days.
They are covered in chancaca sauce, a sweet sugary mixture flavored with orange peel and cinnamon.
While on any day, you can’t be sure you’ll see the mountains through the city’s smog, you can always count on seeing sopaipilla vendors.