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| | Pupusas in San Francisco |
 | | Although no two cooks prepare a pupusa in exactly the same fashion, the standard version consists of a flat bread that resembles a fluffy tortilla stuffed with white cheese, grilled on a griddle until crispy golden outside and gooey inside, and then topped with curtido, a spicy relish of pickled cabbage. |
 | | Luckily it's a cheap habit: As pupusas run about $1 to $2 a pop, there's no reason not to sample every variety of pupusa filling, including frijoles (beans), camarones (shrimp), chicharrón (pork), and loroco, a tasty green vegetable blossom that is native to El Salvador and other parts of Central America. |
 | | Finding a good pupusería may be as simple as checking your local phone book, but those with a fervent hankering to savor the Salvadoran snack should head to San Francisco's Mission District, where enough of these establishments dot the landscape to enable a serious pupusería crawl. |
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