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Always served with chopped onions, mustard and very fine julienne potatoes. These are the sorts of sandwiches to eat when you are not on a diet. There is a restaurant in Little Havana called El Rey de las Fritas (The King of the Fritas). Pretty tasty!

Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and desserts are an important part of Cuban meals.

Guanábana is a green, spiny Cuban fruit, inedible when raw but delicious when made into ice cream, or into a punch with sugar and milk or water which is called champola. To be in “la guanábana” means to be affluent, well off, and enjoying the best things in life.