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Marquesitas · Mérida
Marquesitas are thin crisp wafers, rolled around a filling of Edam cheese (queso de bola) and a sweet partner like cajeta, Nutella or chocolate, the Yucatán's signature street sweet.
The dish was invented in Yucatán in the 1930s by Leopoldo Mena, an ice-cream vendor who, in slow winter months, started selling just the wafer cones from his ice-cream business. Queso de bola filling came from the Yucatán's Caribbean cheese trade. Today the carts on Plaza Grande and Parque Hidalgo are the canonical source.
Where to eat in Mérida:
- Marquesitas El Tony Plaza Grande
- Marquesitas Parque Hidalgo
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