Usually, with a brief visit to the municipal market – especially on market days, which in La Antigua are on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays – you can buy all kinds of seafood: many different kinds of fish, shrimp in every size imaginable, mussels, octopus, and more.
We here at Qué Pasa are fans of seafood as well as the benefits (and taste!) that these “fruits of the sea” give our meals. While visiting the market might sound like the beginning of an adventure, sometimes it can be. Thanks to a tip from our publisher Scott Stanton, we can now buy a wide variety of delicious seafood right at our front door. (And don’t worry – we are going to share the tip with you.)
On Tuesdays and Fridays we get a visit from Esber Octavio Azañon and Danilo Ixcoy Azañon, cousins and businessmen who follow the family tradition – which began almost 35 years ago – of selling seafood for home delivery. With one call, Esber and Danilo come in their small pickup truck to the door of your house and open their wonderful coolers containing (depending on the season, of course): squid, octopus, conch, sea bass, dorado, corvina, grouper, abalone, snapper, mojarras, shrimp, tuna, and lobster. Yes, everything is delicious, fresh, and brought straight from the seaside as quickly as possible.
Esber and Danilo sell what comes from the ports on the very same day, and that way they avoid freezing then thawing the seafood as usually happens with the products sold at the market.
On Mondays and Thursdays they sell seafood in the capital, and on Wednesdays and weekends, they sell groceries. It seems like these gentlemen, whose business is called “El Tiburoncín Veloz” (The Speedy Little Shark), are always on the go.
If you’d like to contact them, you can call them at 4096-7336.
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Photo by: Sofía Letona
Translation by: Kevin Cole
