The smoky market where your clothes meet grilled beef

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Strolling through the famed 'Pasillo de Humo' (Hall of Smoke) is guaranteed to ruin your clothes and vastly improve your life. Vendors aggressively thrust raw cuts of tasajo and chorizo at you, grilling them instantly over blazing charcoal right in the walkway. It is loud, blindingly smoky, and the purest form of carnivorous heaven on the planet.

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