Nicolas and I only got up this evening and braved the cold air outside to find the churros food truck we stumbled upon last night, where we had what may well be the best churros we’ve had in our lives.

A quick Google search for the best churros in Santiago, Chile, turned up Pepe Churro, a food truck that has parked in the same spot on Pio Nono in Barrio Bellavista for the past howeverlong. We jumped into a cab and promised the driver a fresh churro if he would wait while we bought our weight in churros. He excitedly agreed.

That’s Pepe on the right and, I assume, a family member on the left. They laughed when I ordered two bags of two churros each – with manjar (dulce de leche) – and another bag of half a dozen plain ones with sugar.

Fresh churros!

I ate three of the manjar-stuffed churros and one of the sugared ones, Nicolas had two of the manjars and two sugared ones, the driver had one manjar and we gave the doorman one sugared one. Yep, I still have two sugared ones stashed away, although they might not be as good as when then came out of Pepe’s truck.

Manjar-stuffed churro. Possibly one of the best churros ever!

*** PS – I am writing this, for the first time, from my iPad Mini with a bluetooth keyboard. Let’s just say that the online version of Typepad is not the same on an iPad as on a laptop, so everything will look weird for a while until I am reunited with my beloved MacBook Air and can restore things to their rightful order. Please bear with the mess in the meantime. My apologies and thanks for your patience.