Mi Tio, a small grocery store across from the bus terminal, but heading toward the Amazones Market. We’ve been coming here for a while, buying our Snow Mints or Chao mints, as well as our almonds by the pound (which we now get from a spice shop). But then we started noticing how many tienda owners come here to stock the shelves of their little stores. So then we began to look at other items, such as flour, some spices, oil, etc. — good prices. This store also carries odd flavors of essences, like mint, rum, and pineapple, for instance. They take cash only.
Nut & Spice Shop: (January 2016) They moved across the street to a larger location, same street as the deli below. Now you can walk around inside the shop. Across from 1-26 Juan Francisco Cevallos y Obispo Ceasar Mosquera. This is where we buy our spices by weight. (Some items may not be listed on their sign). They sell nuts and seeds by the pound. You can find dates, cloves, cashews, hazelnuts, peanuts, almonds, walnuts, flax seeds, sesame seeds, chia seeds, pistachio, and pumpkin seeds. And they sell large bags of baking soda and also sell bee pollen & honey.
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