The booming city has an award-winning airport and is set to open its first subway line, making it increasingly worth a visit on its own
On the lunch menu that included options of, both Indonesian fried rice-based dishes with beef tail or egg and vegetables, I ended up settling for Rice Surprise, or s. The Indonesian-Ecuadorean fusion dish blended South-Asian fried rice with South American veg and seafood.
For most visitors, Quito is a stopover, a necessary connection between home and the wildlife wonderland that is the Galapagos Islands.
Chef Dimas Putra Pratama, visiting from Indonesia, brought me my rice surprise. He’d won a competition through the Ecuadorian consulate in Indonesia and made the move without knowing a word of Spanish, he tells me. He was energized, not just by the work of finding local ingredients that he could incorporate into Indonesian dishes, but by the enthusiasm and hunger for something new.
There’s no alpaca stuffed animals here . Instead, there’s modern homewares from local design studio Kuska, alpaca textiles from Shuar and hand-embroidered fashion brand Dominga.It’s an exciting counterbalance to the city’s rich historic quarter, where more than 200 religious buildings can be found. It’s possible, if you’re okay with heights, to climb the tower of the Basilica del Voto Nacional to get a view of many of these structures and the changes that the city is undergoing.
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