Like many Mexican grocery stores, 5 de Mayo offers a Saturday-Sunday menu of prepared food, particularly the long-simmered variety. Azadura (as a taco, $3) is a generalized term for offal; at this Pueblan market it entails stewed pork liver and pork skin, here shown with considerable cilantro and onion.
Next to be explored on the weekend-only menu, provided that I proceed alphabetically, are barbacoa, then carnitas, or perhaps a consomé chico. In season, the selection of fruit is terrific, too: On this afternoon I might have procured guanabana, granadilla dulce, ciruela, and vaina.
5 de Mayo Food Market
81-06 Roosevelt Ave. (81st-82nd Sts.), Elmhurst, Queens
718-205-3280
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