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    5.0 (2 reviews)
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    Saw this food truck at the Des Moines Mid Winter Festival, and had to try. We had the Naija version with beef and it was great!

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    Dos Hermanos Chapines - Sopes w asada as the meat choice

    Dos Hermanos Chapines

    4.6(13 reviews)
    0.7 mi

    In short You can barely see it from 99, so the map is kinda…read moremisleading. But once you get around back, man, the food is incredible. Just get in here. In long I've had a bunch of taquerias bookmarked or committed to memory for a while, and one way or another, this past week has turned out to be the tour of tacos in the area. I'd go back to all of them--every single one--and this one might be the best and most interesting. I just got tacos and a tamal, so I don't know that I could say toooo much about the difference between Mexican and Guatemalan food. This place is Guatemalan, but the stuff I had tasted familiar after 1,000 Mexican meals in my life. You have to go around to the street west of 99 to get in here. There's a little flat driveway paved with rocks leading into a flat, rocky-ish parking lot. Couple trailers, a shed, a school bus, and a food truck. There's some lawn furniture here and there. Today there was even a pleather recliner. This all has a vibe like people are coming over and we're all gonna enjoy seeing friends and family even if the setting is modest. I tried to use a little Spanish to order and the sweet lady punching it in just spoke English back. I clearly don't have the fluency I did years ago...lol I got 2 adobada tacos and a pork tamal, and headed back to my truck with my Jarritos for a late lunch. Today's the first day this year it has touched 70F outside, and with the windows down, it was a good truck-dining day. The tacos were molten off the plancha, and I could touch them but not hold them for the first couple minutes, so I munched on grilled onions and a fiery serrano while they cooled. I dug into the tamal as well. The pork tamal has bones in it--they clearly roast the whole thing and let that marrow enrich the tamal filling. Delicious. They wrap it in banana leaves and then thin tinfoil before they steam it. The masa got mushy 'cause I drenched it in salsa, but that's on me, and it was still spectacular. The tacos really shone through, too. Huge flavors on the pork, nice fresh onions and cilantro, and plenty of juice in the lime wedge. It's clear that everyone here loves serving good food that they would want to eat themselves. Best of all, I was out the door for 3 items plus a pop for $14. Not many places are running prices like those anymore.

    The adobada tacos were fantastic. I tried the hilachas and it was also very good. My wife enjoyed…read morethe pollo de gallina. This was an awesome find. Good Guatemalan food and beats the two Central American restaurants in Seattle by far. We are for sure return customers.

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    Bantaba African Restaurant - Delicious!

    Bantaba African Restaurant

    4.3(346 reviews)
    6.5 mi
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    Just updated with pictures of food and front of the restaurant for pictures of some ambiance. The…read moreowners and staff are fantastic. You hear lots of French here from staff and customers interacting.

    I haven't had much West African food in the past so when we were looking for some new food to try…read moreout over the weekend, we came across Bantaba. As other reviews state, this is kind of a strange restaurant that seems more like it's for regulars rather than new customers. There's no actual printed menu other than hints of a menu on the signboard above the register (and we confirmed this with the cashier). I guess this is to save on cost, which coincidentally also allows them to adjust pricing on the fly? There are photos posted of the menu from 2024, but my guess is those are of an old pre-COVID menu, given that the prices increased over 50% at this point. Per other reviews, dine-in orders are also packaged in takeout boxes and can take a variable amount of time to cook. We don't usually get takeout much, but decided to call in an order for this visit. This was at around 5PM on Saturday and we were promised a 30 minute wait. We arrived 30 minutes later, paid for the order, and it ended up taking about another 10 minutes. Not too bad. Benechin Beef ($18.99) - As I learned, benechin is essentially a different term for the more commonly known (at least in the US) jollof rice. In this case, the rice has a deep tomato and spiced umami that combines a pleasant saltiness with a heat level that builds and builds. It's topped with a small side of cabbage that seems to be stewed in the same spices as the rice. There's then a piece of yucca root, stewed but still rather toothsome with fiber strands all in one direction like muscle grains. For the beef, they include four pieces of thinly sliced barbecued meat. The meat is extremely flavorful with what seems to be a black pepper and allium based spice mixture. In terms of texture, it's quite tough and chewy, almost to the level of beef jerky. (4/5) Afra Lamb ($20.99) - This dish comes with a choice of rice or salad, not both as the older menu states. We went with the rice which comes in a smaller container and is a long grain rice cooked until perfectly fluffy. It's cooked with salt, which is something that I'm not used to. The larger container includes a mound of bone-in lamb meat doused in a savory and tangy mustard based sauce. The meat is a very interesting mixture of off-cuts, a combination of cross-cut ribs, shanks, lamb chops, and some random other cuts. The lamb is mostly bone in and there are tons of small bone shards all over the meat, making it a bit of a pain to eat. The meat isn't very gamey and all and is much more tender as compared to the beef jerky in the benechin. On top of the lamb, they include mustard infused softened onions and whole quick-charred onion rings, resulting in a still crunchy texture. They include some powdered dried chilis is a small pile hidden under the onions. Be careful - it's starts out smoky like paprika to start and the heat only starts to build after a couple of seconds. (4/5) Bantaba is a great place to try some new food. While it's not the most beginner friendly restaurant, it offers some flavors and dishes that are hard to find around Seattle. Bathrooms - Single unisex room

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