Ricas Pupusas is on Center Street in Provo, just next to the Fresh Market. They have a decent variety of pupusas, all costing $2.50 a piece. One thing I can't figure out about pupusas -- do you eat them on a plate with a fork and knife, like a pancake, or do you pick them up, folded in half, like a slice of New York Pizza? Since mine were served in a flimsy cross-hatched green plastic tub, on a piece of wax paper, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say they're meant to be a finger food. But I requested mine be put on a ceramic plate, anywho.
You get a squeeze bottle of salsa and a jar of shredded cabbage with your pupusa. The cabbage is obviously out of a bag from the supermarket, and the salsa is so inoffensive and bland that it's more of a moisturizer than a condiment.
I had three different papusas:
Spinach and Cheese: Pretty tasteless.
Pork: Or rather, pork mush. Tasty, but the mouth feel is all wrong.
Chipilin: I hit the jackpot on this one. Chipilin is a roadside weed that flourishes in Mexico and Central America; the leaves are used in salads and soups. This pupusa was savory and full-bodied. I could happily eat four or five of 'em at a go. Highly recommended.
I give this place three Burps. It's modest, knows it's modest, so the staff are friendly and quiet. Just the place for a casual snack, without the heavy high carb rice and beans most places tack on, and charge an arm and a leg for.
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