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Sopa de Lima

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Caldo Cax (Mayan Chicken Caldo)

June 5, 2026

A plate of huevos motulenos with tomato sauce, fried plantain, and a chile

Huevos Motuleños

June 5, 2026

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June 5, 2026

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Belize News Post covers Belizean recipes, regional dishes, pantry staples, and the Maya, Mestizo, Creole, and Garifuna traditions behind them, with one foot in Belize and the other in the wider Yucatan corridor. Start with Recipes, Culture, or Pantry, then follow the deeper guides.

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Belize Street Food: A Guide to What to Eat and Where

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How to Get to Tikal from Belize

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Flying Within Belize: The Cayes, Flights vs. Ferries, and the Best Route

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Chetumal to Belize: Border Crossing and Ferry Guide

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How to Get from Cancún to Belize

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Belize Travel Guide

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Belize Street Food: A Guide to What to Eat and Where

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How to Get to Tikal from Belize

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Flying Within Belize: The Cayes, Flights vs. Ferries, and the Best Route

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Chetumal to Belize: Border Crossing and Ferry Guide

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How to Get from Cancún to Belize

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The Kitchen Tools for Yucatecan and Belizean Cooking

June 2, 2026

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The Kitchen Tools for Yucatecan and Belizean Cooking

The kitchen tools needed to cook every recipe.

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Sargassum in Belize: What the Seaweed Means for Your Trip

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Belize Travel Guide

Short answer: Belize is small, English-speaking, and easier to travel than most of Central America, but it does not work the way a resort does. Most visitors come for the cayes and the reef, the jungle and the Maya sites, or both. Getting around means a mix of small planes, water taxis, and buses. This guide is the map: how to get here from Mexico or by air, how to move between the mainland and the islands, how to reach the Maya world across the Guatemalan border, when to come,…

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Belize Street Food: A Guide to What to Eat and Where

Short answer: The best food in Belize is rarely in a restaurant. It is on a cart at the corner, in a market stall, on a fold-out table outside a house at night. Start with the Belizean street-food trio: salbutes, garnaches, and panades. Eat fry jacks for breakfast, tacos in Orange Walk after dark, and barbecue in Cayo on the weekend. Look for conch and ceviche on the coast. Eat where the line of locals is longest. It is cheap, it is fresh, and it is the real thing. I…

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Orange Walk Tacos Recipe

Orange Walk town has its own taco. It is not a Mexican taco. It is not a Tex-Mex taco. It is a rolled taco, built around recado chicken, served in the market and along the streets of Orange Walk District. You know it when you eat it. The tortilla is the thing. Without the right tortilla you have a different dish. People argue about it. They say you cannot make a true Orange Walk taco outside of Orange Walk. I understand the argument. The tortilla comes from the factory, fresh…

Polcanes frying in oil in a large pan, with white cheese and tostadas at a street food stall

Polcanes Recipe

Polcanes (also spelled polkanes or polcán) are fried masa fritters from the Yucatan peninsula. A thick disc of corn masa is formed around a filling of cooked white beans, ground pumpkin seeds, and cebollina, then sealed and fried in lard until golden. They are served topped like a tostada: salpicón, chopped lettuce, crumbled salty cheese, salsa on the side. Polcanes are antojito yucateco. Market food. Morning food. In Xaibe, we knew these from Chetumal. Go to the market in the morning and there they are. Sit down, they bring you…

Mukbipollo Recipe

In Mérida, when November comes, you smell it before you see it. The smoke from the pib fires. Families that have not shared a kitchen all year are suddenly in one. That is what mukbipollo does. You can make it any time. The tamal shops in Mérida sell it year-round. But most people first learn this dish because someone in the family is making it for the dead. For the ofrenda. For Hanal Pixan. What is mukbipollo? Mukbipollo (also written pibipollo or mucbipollo) is a large Yucatan tamal. Not the…

Joroches Recipe

In Mérida, you find joroches on the table without ceremony. A bowl of black beans, a few masa balls floating in it, chiltomate over the top. That is the whole dish. Simple food, Maya food. It feeds you. On this side of the border we know it too. The name, the beans, the way you work the dough between your palms. Some people call them joloches. The word is the same. Just the tongue moves different. What are joroches? Joroches (also spelled joloches) are small corn masa balls cooked directly…

Maya woman in traditional dress standing in adobe kitchen with cooking pots — chulibuul, Belize

Chulibuul Recipe

Chulibuul is a pre-Hispanic Maya bean and corn soup from the Yucatan Peninsula. You grind the tender corn kernels and that is the thickener. No flour, no starch. Beans and ground corn together give a complete protein the old way, before meat was the center of every pot. Make this when the corn and beans are fresh and tender. Editor's Note: Sometimes Yucatecan Chulibuul is spelt Chulibul or Chulibull but don't confuse it with the Asian dish "Chulbuli" which is a type of chutney. Ingredients 8 ears tender corn (elotes),…