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Stay in Old San Juan and make sure to enjoy the seasonal Puerto Rican holiday food, such as the meat and spice-filled pastries known as pasteles, or pernil, a seasoned, baked pork shoulder that's on almost every table.
Forbes.com: News John Giuffo 2011
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Anyway, the pasteles were really tasty and very filling.
Sandra’s Puerto Rican Food Makes My Life a Lil’ Brighter | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2010
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The luna has that distinction is El Gran Combo's Fiesta de Pilito, with eating lechón and pasteles, plus drinking some Bacardà a temporary remedy to being on skid row.
Viviana Hurtado: President Obama's MIA Campaign Latino Playlist Viviana Hurtado 2012
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I noticed last week that they had started serving pasteles on Fridays with rice, pigeon peas, and salad for 8 bucks.
Sandra’s Puerto Rican Food Makes My Life a Lil’ Brighter | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2010
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Sure, you could head to the outer boroughs for the good stuff or wait for the random street fair to come around, but it seems to me that pasteles should be to New York what tacos are to L.A. It should just be what the average New Yorker goes out and grabs for a quick bite.
Sandra’s Puerto Rican Food Makes My Life a Lil’ Brighter | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2010
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The luna has that distinction is El Gran Combo's Fiesta de Pilito, with eating lechón and pasteles, plus drinking some Bacardí a temporary remedy to being on skid row.
Viviana Hurtado: President Obama's MIA Campaign Latino Playlist Viviana Hurtado 2012
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Called pasteles the “dough” is made with plantains instead of corn, and their version is stuffed with shredded chicken.
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The only pasteles I know are the Puerto Rican ones which are filled with wonderful pork goodness.
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Down 181st Street, she explained, awaits a bazaar of cheap Dominican, Mexican and Puerto Rican eats, from crunchy chunks of chicharrón to deep-fried chicken pasteles, pork tamales and pastries stuffed with guava and cream cheese.
Best Eats For One Dollar In Washington Heights The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Yuki watched a family unwrap the pasteles and saw what it looked like.
lampbane commented on the word pasteles
A Taste of Puerto Rico in Cities Across the Land (New York Times, November 29, 2008):
Pasteles (pronounced pas-TEL-les) can usually be found at Puerto Rican holiday gatherings next to roast pork, steaming lumps of rice with pigeon peas, and sweet fried plantains.
For a dish relatively unknown outside Latino culture, the excitement around pasteles runs high, especially this time of the year. It’s customary for Puerto Ricans, and some non-Latinos, to go in search of pasteles as soon as the leaves begin to turn in the fall.
December 2, 2008