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Oval masa cakes cooked on the comal, pinched at the edges, then spread with lard or asiento, beans, salsa and crumbled cheese. Breakfast food, cheap and eaten by hand.
The memela is the plainest thing on a Puebla comal and one of the oldest: a thick oval of masa, cooked, pinched around the rim to hold the topping, then dressed with asiento, refried beans, salsa and crumbled cheese. It belongs to breakfast rather than dinner, and the counters that sell it open early and shut in the afternoon. La Ververa in Arboledas de Guadalupe presses them on hand-made blue-corn tortillas and prices them between twenty and forty-five pesos, which is the version worth leaving the Centro for, though it only opens at the weekend. Mercado Xonaca, out between 22 Norte and 28 Oriente, cooks them daily and is the fallback on a weekday.
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Also in: Oaxaca.
La Ververa cooks chalupas, memelas and mole poblano at neighbourhood prices in Arboledas de Guadalupe, Puebla, on Saturdays and Sundays only.
OrderChalupas, then a mole plate that lands under 100 pesos.
TipArboledas de Guadalupe is residential rather than touristy, and the kitchen only opens on Saturday and Sunday, nine until six.
Mercado Xonaca trades between 22 Norte and 28 Oriente in Puebla, a barrio market of produce, comedores and mole ingredients that opens daily.
TipA barrio market between 22 Norte and 28 Oriente, open daily, and about as far from the tour route as Puebla gets.
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