Travel rule #1: When you’re in a restaurant owned by a guy with a Stetson hat and an epic handlebar moustache, and the drink list contains a house specialty called Licor de Serpiente (Snake Juice), you order it.
Had the proprietor, Shanta, showed me the bottle of yellowing liquor with the actual, full-grown Coral snake in it, I might have reconsidered, but thankfully he only took it out after I ordered the drink.
The drink itself was good: smoky, and very, very strong (Shanta said that after two of them you’re sure to be muy, muy borracho), but the experience was priceless.
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3 responses to “Yum: Licor de Serpiente”
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Other useful Spanish phrases: Tengo resaca.
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In Ecuador it was “estoy chuchaqui”. We bonded with some kids in the back of a truck in Ecuador over the fact that being chuchaqui on Mondays is the worst. They were drinking beer in the back of a truck on Sunday afternoon.
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[…] ever had in my life, played foosball, hiked through a nature preserve, hung out poolside, and tried Snake Juice. Overall, I'm glad we went there and ended our Ecuador leg on a relaxing and fun note. However, […]
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