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40 Salvadoran restaurants in New York City, listed by borough.
The order is pupusas, thick corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, beans, chicharrón, or loroco, an edible flower bud, griddled and served with curtido, a tangy cabbage slaw, and thin tomato salsa. Pupusas revueltas mix the fillings. Round it out with yuca frita with chicharrón, pastelitos, or panes con pavo, a turkey sandwich. Salvadoran horchata is made from morro seeds, not rice.
Queens has the most spots, many along Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica and in Flushing. Brooklyn has a strip in Sunset Park on Fifth Avenue, and Manhattan has a cluster on upper Broadway in Washington Heights. The region's biggest Salvadoran community is on Long Island, outside the city.
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