Those three, like India Quiche (here in cream soda flavor, 350 ml., $1.50), are thirst-quenchers from Guatemala, where the locals call themselves Chapines (cha-Pee-nays). Chapinlandia functions mainly as a grocery, but there's also a kitchen, a table with a few seats, and — weekdays after 6:00 and weekends after noon — a modest cooked-food menu offering the likes of chicken and beef soups, fried chicken, chow mein, and tamales. Below, my firm bone-in chicken tamal ($2.25) also sported bits of red and green peppers, perhaps poblanos, and a slightly spicy cordovan paste of unknown provenance.
Chapinlandia
74 Castleton Ave. (at Cebra Ave.), Tompkinsville, Staten Island
646-342-0364