Mercado Municipal
Enclosed local market of produce stalls and family-run food counters, famed for weekend slow-roasted pit pork.
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This guide to the Mercado Municipal in Cancún follows the Sunday ritual of cochinita pibil, a Maya method of roasting marinated pork underground in banana leaves that predates the Spanish arrival on this coast. It traces the achiote-and-sour-orange rub, the pit dug the night before, and the rush of fishermen and families who empty the stalls by mid-morning. Come hungry before eight, and follow your nose past the fruit stands and butcher counters.
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