Juan Jose Villalengua y Jorge Drom, between Amazonas and Diez de Agosto Extremely wide selection of fresh produce (all the fruits and vegetables you can dream of), plus stations for fresh meat, poultry, fish (Pescaderia Resbalón is great, the leftmost of the fish shops). Fresh herbs and raw honey are also available (there are a couple small stands between the… Read More
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New Asian Store – Quito
Asian store – Sriracha Sauce (near Luxemburgo N3-140) No signage. Just some Chinese lettering and paper lanter outside. Immediately caught my attention. Not hard to miss. It’s street level. Only store on the block. I am headed back, will post exact address and see if they have a #. Owner spoke English well. Prefers it over Spanish. Decent selection of… Read More
Great Finds in Quito
We are all looking for links for shopping or things to do or see in Quito – thought would share the places I have found! Will keep adding to this list so check back!! To Visiting Quito
Cardboard Boxes – Cotacachi
Your container has arrived and you have a mountain of cardboard – what to do with all of it? thanks to Mary for this information There is a wonderful foundation in Ibarra that makes high quality but affordable prosthetic limbs and other adaptive items for disabled patients in need. They use large, high quality pieces of cardboard to make INCREDIBLE… Read More
Canning Jars – Ibarra
many thanks to Jill Benn for this info The two streets the shop is on the corner of are Bartolome Garcia 3-19 y Luis Toromoreno. Hope that helps she had a wide range of sizes in glass jars
Tao Tao Asian Market – Ibarra
thanks to David Sasaki for finding the new location for us OK, I found the place where the Asian food store is being relocated in Ibarra. Look for a restaurant called Tao-Tao. It’s across from Parque de la Familia on Av. Rafael Sánchez. The restaurant isn’t even open yet. Tomorrow will be the first day. It’s a pretty decent size… Read More
Dental Work Cotacachi & Otavalo
Christian Revelo COE Dental 24 de Mayo entre Gonzáles Suárez y Bolívar Cotacachi – 06 291 4378 Knowledgeable, gentle, caring, a little English if necessary Dra Johanna Orozco Cristobal Colon #308 y Bolivar Otavalo ofc – 062 924974 cell – 0999492218
Cheese glorious cheese
next time you are in Quito check it out La Casa del Queso
Grocery shopping in Ecuador: What’s it like?
Laura Lee Jones is a single mom living in Loja and a wonderful friend. She wrote this fabulous article on shopping here and with her permission, I am sharing it. When sitting at home in the US researching living in Ecuador, I saw lots of pictures of the colorful displays of fruit sold in the open markets. I knew that… Read More
Flight Information
Quito airport flight information http://aeropuertoquito.com/eng/flight-information/