- I never had like, what is it, huff?
Hoove?
Ahove? - A hoove.
- Huff. - Huff.
- Who? - Whoof?
Hoves. Hooves.
- Whatever, you know what I'm talking about.
(Latin music)
(speaking Spanish)
- The Curly V Show! (speaking Spanish)
- I brought Curly all the way from LA to San Diego
to eat at this restaurant called El Salvadoreno.
For me, I believe it's the best Latin restaurant
in San Diego. - What, word?
- [Gadiel] Today we're gonna try three different dishes.
Which are Sopa de Pata, Casamiento,
and finish it off with empanadas.
- I'm so excited yo, cause you know I see
these Salvadorian foods and I'm like mm, mmm mmm.
(speaking Spanish)
- You're gonna love this.
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(speaking Spanish)
(laughing)
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- Wow!
- This is my favorite, favorite, favorite Salvadorian dish.
- Is this how you pictured it?
(speaking Spanish)
- My mouth is just watering so hard.
(speaking Spanish)
- Look at that.
- That's a hoof.
- That's my shit.
You eat the carne.
Is there another one in there for you?
- You can have that one.
- So you just kinda like...
(speaking Spanish)
They make it really good.
- Yeah they spent hours cooking, as you can tell.
I found a platano.
That's right son.
- Y'all wanna try some foot?
Does it look good to you?
- El Mondongo.
Oh wow, this is the stomach of the cow.
The stomach lining.
This is so good.
This is a hundred times better than Menudo.
(laughing)
- You heard it here first, it is!
- It is so good.
- If we had a version of like
what Salvadorian soul food it would be Sopa de Pata.
And she did a phenomenal job.
They're doing an amazing job back there.
I only have one tio that can make this.
- Now you got tia.
- Now I got a tia that can make this.
(laughing)
(speaking Spanish)
To be honest with you, I never thought
that me living in California,
I will ever taste a Mondongo this good.
(Latin music)
(speaking Spanish)
- Yeah, that's my favorite.
This is what we eat for breakfast right here usually.
(speaking Spanish)
- I don't wanna eat, I just wanna look at it.
I grab the casamiento, the chuletta and the platano
and the queso all in one bite.
- Oh do it, I wanna see you do it, go on.
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Wow.
That's my people y'all.
That's my people.
- You like it? - I love it.
- It's so good, eh? - Mmhmm.
- Oh my god.
(speaking Spanish)
- It's really well seasoned and it's not too salty,
'cause sometimes, like people go overboard
the salt and the seasoning,
this is just right, it's perfect.
(speaking Spanish)
- You know I feel like I'm in my mom's kitchen.
- You can feel the love.
Like the years, the tradition all here.
And our people, this is what our people eat.
And I'm really proud that you like it, to be honest.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, thank you for like bringing me here.
- I wasn't lying, right?
This is dope.
Salud!
- And this is the Agua de...
- Granadia, it's passion fruit.
- So good.
That's good.
- Really good, huh?
- Everything is so good and so fresh,
everything is raw, it's made here first.
Nothing is like bought, everything is all fresh.
- It's Latino owned, it's family owned.
You come over here everybody welcomes you
like you're part of the family.
When they went to Dominican Republic,
they brought Mama Juana for me.
I went to their kids, their daughters quinceanera.
For me, these people are family to me.
- And you can tell, 'cause when you walked in,
they showed you all this love,
they were so happy to see you,
you knew the kids, you knew everybody.
As somebody who does eat Salvadorian food,
I grew up in it, I eat it on weekends, its bomb.
If you can get to San Diego,
if you can get your asses to this restaurant,
it's super good.
But we have one more, right?
- We're gonna finish it off with empanadas,
mostly for the audience, 'cause a lot of people
don't know what Empanada is,
especially the Salvi version.
- Salvadorian empanada.
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(speaking Spanish)
- It's the money shot right there, son.
- No matter what you doing with Salvi food,
there's gonna be love in it, a lot of love in it.
Usually we share, I ain't gonna share.
(laughing)
This is good, cause like, it's crispy on the outside too.
And when you get on the inside, it is super soft.
- I wonder who came up with this.
- Our people, yo.
People always think about Salvadorian food
as like solamente pupusas and that's fine, that's cool,
that's what we're allowed, but there's more to us.
That's the reason why I wanted to make this video,
El Salvadorian food is more than pupusas.
And when I come to this restaurant
I don't really eat pupusas, I eat everything else.
And everything else is so delicious.
- If you come through, try different things,
don't be afraid to try something other than a pupusa.
But definitely, whatever you do,
finish it off and have you some empanadas,
you're not gonna regret it, it's gonna be so good.
(speaking Spanish)
I loved it, I love this so much.
Of course, and I always say that when I'm at home,
I'm in a little El Salvador
and when I walk out I'm in the United States.
But it's always so nice to see our people
doing the thing, going out into the community.
We're more than like gangs, we're more than violence,
we're more than like war trauma.
People wanna give Latinos a different idea
of what we are, who they think we are.
But it's like we're entrepreneurs
and then we make delicious food.
If you're in San Diego you have to come try this,
come check it out, it's so good.
I put my Salvi stamp of approval on it,
it's so good.
We gotta come back, only for this.
And then go back to LA.
(speaking Spanish)
- I say yeah Curly, some dope El Salvadorian food
aqui in San Diego. - That's right.
We're so happy, you're so good,
everything is perfect, so good.
And she also said that I was really Salvadorian too.
So I got my stamp from them too.
(laughing)