asia de cuba • 21 comments • We celebrated Mina's birthday in Guayaquil. As mentioned earlier, there was a strong Asian influence in Guayaquil so we chose a restaurant called Asia de Cuba for the 'festivities'. We noticed that people in Mexico, Central America, and South America eat dinner a lot later than us North Americans, so, often, we were the only people in the restaurants. It was kind of nice. The food was excellent - really fresh, and well prepared. The innovative menu offers several dishes from all over the world from salmon ceviche to sushi to steak. The restaurant housed brightly colored decor and furnishing and it was nice to get out of our beach attire, get dressed up and have a proper meal in a trendy restaurant. We finished the night off with 4 different flavors of crème brûlée - our favorite dessert. - Alex
japanese in ecuador • 11 comments • We're not too sure why there was such a Japanese influence in Guayaquil, but we were glad there was. Stores, shoes, and sushi - Mina was especially happy about the sushi. She thought she would have to wait a lot longer until she was able to have some quality sashimi again.
