Café El Popular Restaurante · Carta en inglés.

5 de Mayo No. 50 y 52 Centro Histórico Ciudad de México

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TAMAL A Prehispanic food, consisting of small steamed cake o made from maize, stuffed with hot pepper sauce and usually some kind of meat, and the whole wrapped into a package with corn husk or banana leaves. The name comes from Nahuatl Tamalli.

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Tamal OaxaqueĂąo (1 piece) Wrapped in toasted banana leaf, stuffed with minced chicken and mole.

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Corn Husk Tamal (2 pieces) Stuffed with minced chicken and green hot pepper sauce, or stuffed with pork meat and red hot pepper sauce.

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Fruit Salad 4 slices of cantaloupe, watermelon, 1 banana, 1 peach in light syrup.

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Steamed Vegetables and Pulses Sliced tomato, zucchini, broccoli flowerettes, sticks of carrot, squash and green peas, all steamed and on a bed of filleted romaine lettuce.

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Tuna fish salad & coriander dressing Tuna fish marinated on coriander dressing, with lettuce, panela cheese dices, steamed zucchini and sliced avocado.

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Chef’s Salad Romaine lettuce leaves with ham, american cheese, cut into julianne stripes, minced chicken breast, and sliced tomato, served with thousand island dressing.

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Adriana Salad Grilled chicken breast strips, panela cheese dices and cucumber, all on a bed of chopped Italian lettuce, served with sesame seed dressing.

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Berries Salad Chopped Italian and lettuce sangria with strawberries, dehydrated blueberries and dices of dehydrated apple, sugar coated sesame seed and balsamic vinaigrette.

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Mashed fried or from the pot.

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Mixed, with one egg

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Mixed, with two eggs

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Mixed, with chopped homemade spicy pork sausage or ham or bacon, served with crispy fried totopos (triangular cuttings of maize tortilla)

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Quesadilla Sincronizada 2 tortillas smeared in adobo with layers of Chihuahua cheese and ham between them, served with guacamole (avocado and hot pepper sauce) and a slice of tomato.

TACOS Typical Mexican food, Consisting of warm tortilla usually made of maize also could be made of wheat, mainly at the north of Mexico and filled with variety of food, considered the most typical mexican food.

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Crispy mashed potato tacos 3 pieces of crispy mashed potato, topped with cream, fresh grated cheese and served with guacamole, lettuce and slice of tomato.

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Chicken breast tacos 3 rolled soft of crispy tortilla with minced chicken breast, topped with cream, fresh grated cheese and served with guacamole, lettuce and slice of tomato.

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Minced beef tacos 3 rolled soft or crispy tortilla with minced beef seasoned with fried onion, topped with cream, fresh grated cheese, served with guacamole, lettuce and slice of tomato.

ENCHILADAS Typical Mexican dish consisting of maize tortillas folded and stuffed with different kind of food and drenched with hot chili pepper sauce depending on the region of the country and topped with cream, fresh grated cheese and chopped onion.

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Enchiladas to taste (3 pieces) a) Green sauce b) Mole c) Divorce style d) Tomato Swiss style e) Green Swiss style The Swiss style are with tomato sauce and the green hot pepper sauce, both are gratin cheese and are stuffed with minced chicken breast drenched with sauce of your preference and topped with cream, grated cheese and chopped onion.

CHILAQUILES Typical dish consisting of fried crispy tortilla cuttings cooked in hot pepper souce, generally served with grated cheese, cream and chopped onion, the kind of souce and complements varies according to the region of Mexico.

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Gratin Chilaquiles Plain with red or green sauce topped with grated cheese.

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Chilaquiles red or green sauce With beef steak, or beef rib or one egg, a piece chicken or minced chicken breast.

TOSTADAS Snack consisting of fried crispy maiz tortilla, topped with variety of staples and dressings.

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Chicken tostadas Topped with fried mashed beans lyer, minced chicken breast, filleted lettuce, cream, grated cheese and a slice of avocado.

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TlalpeĂąo Chicken Broth Chicken broth whit tomato minced chicken breast, rice, chickpeas, green beans, chipotle hot pepper and aromatized with epazote (wormseed).

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Chicken soup with vegetables.

Chicken soup with tomato, minced chicken breast, diced potato, carrots, zucchini, green peas, aromatized with coriander.

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Azteca soup Typical tortilla soup with chicken and tomato broth and gratin cheese and aromatized with epazote (wormseed), served with fried pasilla dry hot pepper and slice of avocado.

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Onion soup Chicken broth with filleted onion, bay leaves and a toast with gratin cheese.

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Chicken consomme to taste With minced chicken breast or vegetables, or rice or one egg.

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Garlic soup Made with soft fried garlic, butter, served with a toast.

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Garlic soup with an egg One egg poached in it, served with a toast.

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Hamburguer with french fries Made with ground beef and pork meat mixed with finely chopped onion and parsley, in a homemade bun, served with fried bacon, french fries, lettuce and tomato salad.

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Cheeseburguer with french fries Made with groun beef and pork meat mixed with finelly chopped onion and parsley in a homemade bun, served with fried bacon, french fries, lettuce and tomato salad.

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Liver and onion to taste a) Mexican style b) Onion fried in sliced on top of liver, Served with hot pepper julienne stripes, seasoned with worcestershire sauce and fried mashed beans.

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Beef steak to taste a) Mexican style b) Grilled c) Onions on top of steak Served with serrano hot pepper julienne stripes and seasoned with worcestershire sauce and served with fried mashed beans.

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Pork chops to taste a) Mexican style b) Grilled c) In bread crombs 2 breaded chops served with french fries and buttered vegetables.

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Beef rib to taste a) Mexican style b) Grilled Served with french fries and buttered vegetables.

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Beef rib milanese Breaded beef rib on the grill, served with french fries and buttered vegetables.

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Beef rib milanese au gratin Breaded beef rib on the grill topped with chihuahua gratin cheese, served with french fries and buttered vegetables.

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Grilled chicken Âź to taste a) Mexican style drenched with mexican hot pepper sauce, served with fried mashed beans. b) Grilled chicken leg and thigh, served with french fries and buttered vegetables. c) With Mole Âź grilled chicken leg and thigh drenched with mole sauce, served with rice.

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Breaded chicken breast a) Breaded chicken breast steak, served with french fries and buttered vegetables. b) Grilled chicken breast.

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Breaded chicken breast au gratin

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Chicken breast stuffed with ham and cheese Breaded chicken breast stuffed with american cheese and ham, served with french fries and buttered vegetables.

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Chorizo a la Ranchera Homemade chorizo (spicy pork sausage) drenched with mildly hot pepper sauce, served with boiled nopal cactus pads and black beans from the pot on the side.

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Roasted Pork leg Thick slices of roasted pork leg, drenched with gravy, served with mashed potatoes.

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Charro Style Beef Steak Beef steak with gratin cheese, drenched with mixed dry hot pepper sauce on a bed of black beans from the pot.

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Azteca Beef Rib Grilled Beef Rib, served with guacamole (avocado and hot pepper sauce), pearl onions, grilled nopal (cactus pads) and black beans from the pot.

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Potosinas Enchiladas Style 2 folded enchiladas with mashed potatoes drenched with red sauce and served with grilled steak.

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Enfrijoladas con Chorizo 3 soft fried tortillas stuffed with minced chicken, drenched with beans sauce, topped with grated cheese, cream, chopped onion and fried pork sausage.

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Beef Cecina or Pork Cecina in Adobo Served with 2 folded soft fried tortillas, drenched with mole sauce or green sauce or red sauce, or guajillo sauce, served with mashed beans or from the pot.

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TampiqueĂąa Steak Style Served with 2 mole enchiladas, guacamole, fried mashed beans, poblano chile strips, rice french fries and lettuce salad.

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Mole de Olla Beef broth with beef shank and some vegetables as carrot, pumpkin, string beans, potato and a small piece of corn, served with 3 warm tortillas.

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Beef Cecina from Yecapixtla, Morelos.

Our special dish served with chilaquiles red or green and beans from the pot.

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Plato Oaxaqueño Pork cecina in adobo, beef cecina, 1 mole enchilada, fried pork sausage, guacamole, oaxaca cheese and beans from the pot.

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Huarache to taste Typical mexican dish consisting of large oval maize dough maize cooked on the grill with a fried mashed beans layer, then topped with green hot pepper sauce or red sauce (3 hot pepper) a) Strips of Poblano Chile b) Beef Cecina c) Steak Rib d) Steak of chicken breast grilled e) Spicy pork sausage, Served with grilled nopal cactus pads and pearl onions.

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Arrachera Served with 3 folded soft fried tortillas, one red, one green, one of mole sauce.

*MOLE: The word comes from the Nahuatl “molli”, sauce or concoction at pre-hispanic times, people usually made various complex ground sauces, but not always of thick consistency, the most widely known is a dark mole called Mole Poblano. **ADOBO: A sauce made of various kind or dry red hot peppers, oregano, garlic, salt, pepper and sometimes orange or lime juice and vinegar. This preparation is used to marinate or smear the food.

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Avocado ½ sliced avocado

93. Butter 2-gram blister.

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Bread roll Salty wheat, rhomboid bread roll with a crack on the front. It's soft and fluffy inside.

94. Packet of regular or decaffeinated coffee 2-gram blister

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Cream 100% natural cow milk.

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Chiles toreados Grilled, seasoned serrano hot peppers with grilled nopal cactus pads and onions.

96. Pico de Gallo sauce As it is know in some regions of the country, mainly in central Mexico, it's a Mexican raw sauce made of chopped onion, coriander, tomato and serrano hot pepper.

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Chorizo Fried. homemade spicy pork sausage.

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Disposable container (large)

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Disposable container (small)

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95. French fries

97. Chihuahua cheese Mature cheese.

98. Tea bag 99. Bacon 3 fried bacon strips.

100. Tortillas 3 maize tortillas ground maize Guacamole dough, or wheat flour, made Mashed or ground avocado by hand or on machine. It's a mixed with onion, coriander, fundamental part of and green hot pepper. It's a Mexican food. At Mexicas popular sauce all over pre-Hispanic times it was Mexico. The word comes called Tlaxcalli. from Nahuatl ahuacamulli.

That's ahuĂĄcatl: avocado, 101. Totopo and mulli: mole or hot Crispy fried triangular pepper sauce. cuttings of maize tortilla

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Fried egg One fried or scrambled egg

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Ham 3 slices of pork leg ham.

102. Small serving of fruit from economic menu Fruits of the season. 2 papaya slices, watermelon or cantaloupe, or 6 slices of one fruit.

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Grilled Beefsteak with French Fries, fried, mashed beans, buttered vegetables, one fried or scrambled egg, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water or fresh fruit water.

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Sliced Plantain with Cream, fried, mashed beans, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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2 Mexican Style, or Fried , or Scrambled Eggs with Fried, Mashed Beans, fresh fruit or yoghurt, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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Breakfast or Light Dinner Economic Menues include a bread roll or 3 tortillas

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2 Eggs with Ham or Bacon, or Rancheros, with fried, mashed beans, fresh fruit or yoghurt, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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One Oaxaca Tamal with mole and stuffed with minced chicken wrapped in toasted banana leaf, or 2 Corn Husk Tamales stuffed with minced chicken or pork and green or red hot pepper sauce, fried, mashed beans, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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2 Enchiladas filled with minced chicken breast drenched with green hot pepper sauce, dressed with cream, cheese, and chopped onion.

Fried, mashed beans, fresh fruit or yoghurt, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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Breakfast or Light Dinner Economic Menues include a bread roll or 3 tortillas

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Mexican Style Grilled Beefsteak, drenched with tomato, onion and serrano hot pepper sauce; served with fried mashed beans, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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ChicharrĂłn (fried pork rind), Ranchero style, cooked in green tree hot pepper sauce. With fried, mashed beans, tortillas, fresh fruit or yoghurt, and coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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AlbaĂąil Style Eggs.

2 scrambled eggs drenched with red, tree hot pepper sauce, served with fried, mashed beans, tortillas, fruit or yoghurt, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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Chilaquiles Cooked in red or green hot pepper sauce with grated cheese and one fried egg. Fruit or yoghurt, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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One Mollete Fruit or yoghurt, coffee with milk, or coffee, or tea, or bottled water, or fresh fruit water.

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Rice pudding Typical Mexican dessert made of boiled rice, whole milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.

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Peaches in syrup Chopped tiny pieces of peach.

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Peaches with cream Chopped tiny pieces of peach with sweet cream.

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Flan Baked Homemade with milk, eggs and vanilla.

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Strawberries and cream 100% natural, chopped with sweet cream.

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Strawberry cake 3-milk cake, filled with natural strawberries, pastry cream, and topped with whipped cream, strawberries, toasted coconut and corn flakes.

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Pineapple pie With homemade natural jam filling.

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Cheesecake Filled with fresh cheese and topped with natural strawberries.

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Natural bananas with cream Sliced Tabasco banana with cream.

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Fried bananas with cream Fried slices of plantain with cream.

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Slice of walnut spongy cake Fresh and delicious. Homemade.

ges a r e B ev 115. 100% natural orange juice 116. 100% whole milk hot or cold 117. Coffee with milk Traditional beverage known as café lechero (dairy coffee) with coffee extract and hot milk.

118. Coffee or Expresso 100% organic, altitude grain from the Altos of Chiapas.

119. Nescafé with water Instant coffee in water.

120. Nescafé with milk Instant coffee with whole milk.

121. Chocolate with milk Hot or cold beverage made of whole milk and a mix of handcrafted Oaxaca dark chocolate and sugar.

122. Spanish style chocolate Warm, foaming beverage made of whole milk and a mix of handcrafted Oaxaca dark chocolate and sugar.

123. Atole Popular Mexican beverage with a wide range of variants.

Enjoyed since pre-Hispanic times, today is made of boiled maize with milk or water, sweetened with sugar or piloncillo (whole cane sugar) and flavored with spices or fruits. It is drunk throughout Mexico on cold mornings as a complement for tamales. It is usually thickened with maize dough, or masa, starch, pinole (ground toasted maize flour), oats and young or mature maize.

124. Tea Mint, Chamomile or Black tea.

125. Soda Bottled soda; Apple, 7up, Pepsi, Mirinda.

126. Bottled water 20 ounces

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Jar of Orangeade or Horchata Orangeade: made of purified water, sugar and natural orange juice.

Horchata: rice extract, cinnamon, milk, purified water and vanilla.

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Glass of orangeade or Horchata

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Beer; Sol, XX Lager, Indio, Bohemia -Served with food only -

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Chicken soup with vegetables

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Chicken broth with vegetables

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Cheeseburger with fries

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Breaded chicken breast with fries

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Grilled chicken breast with fries

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Beef rib Milanese with fries

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One Mollete

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One Mollete with chorizo or ham

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Steak on grill

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Hot Cakes (2)

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