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Since the day we got off that plane in Quito, we have been trying to taste Ecuadorian food delicacies. There was one we had yet to try: guinea pig!

Freddie and I decided to go to Chaltura, a little village outside of Ibarra famous for its cuy as it is served young and tender.

We stopped at the first restaurant we found and had a cuy asado entero for us to share with potatoes and salad on the side. They brought us the roasted rodent on a plate, its tiny claws hanging in the air and stretched nostrils pointed toward us while the little beast seemed to be gasping for air one last time.

The roasted rodent on a plate

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