Chapulines appears as a signature dish in 1 Mexico cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Chapulines · Oaxaca
Chapulines are roasted Oaxacan grasshoppers with garlic, salt, chile and lime, eaten as a snack, in tacos or sprinkled over guacamole and tlayudas.
Chapulines (grasshoppers) are a pre-Hispanic Oaxacan protein, harvested across the Valles Centrales after the rains and roasted with garlic, salt, lime and chile. They sell year-round from the row of vendors on Calle Miguel Cabrera outside Mercado Benito Juarez, sized small to large by the gram. Modern restaurants such as Casa Oaxaca serve them tableside on guacamole; traditional rooms put them on the standard salsa selection.
Where to eat in Oaxaca:
- Mercado Benito Juarez chapulines row
- Casa Oaxaca el Restaurante
- Origen
- Tierra del Sol
- Itanoni
- Tlayudas Libres