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I’m the type that believes that some of the best food will come from either your hole-in-the-wall restaurants or better yet, street vendors. Now, the sanity issue is always a concern but when it comes to the street vendors you have true locals cooking good food while keeping it at a fair price since the overhead costs are minimal. As with the taco trucks I’m used to come the choripan carts of Argentina. Choripan simply is a chorizo sandwich. The chorizo is split down the middel the long way, placed in bread with chimichurri and other garnishes of your choice. If that sounds tasty to you, trust me, it is.

Now, I’d seen a bunch of these choripan carts and other parrilla-style street vendors in Puerto Madero but never actually went to one. In addition, Anthony Bourdain ate choripan in the Argentina episode of No Reservations. So to my delight while walking through Córdoba near the Parque Sarmiento I see this bright choripan cart. 5 pesos got me a choripan loaded with all the toppings I wanted. With its softly toasted bread I was feeling pure joy because I finally ate a choripan after being in Argentina long enough to never even have one.

The chorizo wasn’t too spicy but combine that with the chimichurri and other sauces I had the man put in and it was tasty enough with that kick of vinegar to go along with it. Now, choripan is not the healthiest food to eat because really, it’s a pork sausage sandwich but I’ll say that in moderation this is a food that any visitor to Argentina needs to experience. However, it’s not something you order in a fancy restaurant. This is something the locals will eat on the run, maybe in the train station or just cruising the streets. Support the street vendors and taste some of the best food of the city you wouldn’t have expected.