"Guayaquil en un minuto"

Last July, to celebrate the fiestas de Guayaquil leading up to Guayaquil's independence day, the newspaper El Universo produced a series of videos featuring different aspects of life in the city. The theme was Guayaquil en un minuto, "Guayaquil in one minute," and each video was 60 seconds long.

Here is one of them, featuring some of the food you'll find if you wander around the city. Chuzos (sausage kebabs) y arroz con menestra (rice and beans). This video features one restaurant owner who has served arroz con menestra at his establishment in downtown Guayaquil for more than three decades.



"This is traditional food here," he explains at the beginning. And at the end, talking about the technique he's developed for manning the grill: "Here is where I die, from here I'll be taken to the cemetery. I've spent my entire life doing this."