Los Angeles: Grand Central Market

The Grand Central Market is a large public market in downtown Los Angeles, and is LA's oldest market - it opened in 1917. It contains produce stalls featuring Latin American products, bulk items and spices, meat and seafood, and food stands representing various Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Asian cuisines.

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Bulk spices

Roasted meats, tacos, and burritos

Bulk dried beans and chiles

Menu at a Mexican seafood stand. Mmm, scallop tacos!

Nopales - fresh cactus leaf, a Latin American delicacy

View of the market

El Salvadorean pupuseria. Pupusas are little turnovers made from corn tortillas and commonly filled with meat and cheese, but there are variations on the fillings. They are delicious, like little meat pies.

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