Honduars Kitchen keeps conch on the menu for more native tastes, but the restaurant’s pollo frito is excellent, too—a few lightly fried hunks topped with chismol, a fresh salsa familiar to fans of pico de gallo. On the side is a hearty slop of beans and some rice. You get your choice for a third side, but this is an easy one: sweet plantains. The restaurant offers a few different varieties of plantains, so make sure you pick carefully: you want the charred spears grilled to a dark caramel brown, the insides so sweet and gooey they could pass as banana pudding.

HONDURAS KITCHEN 1909 E FOURTH ST | LONG BEACH 90802 | 562.624.8849 | WED-SUN 10AM-10PM | FOOD FOR TWO $20-40 | BEER, WINE | CASH ONLY

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