Casa Latina Casa Latina

Empanadas have a crisp but not hard crust around cheese, meat, or cheese and tomato, and work as either a beer snack or a meal. A Colombian-born owner and her husband run this South American home-cooking spot on the third floor of a building near Hongik University Station, and they walk first-timers through each dish. Banderas is white rice topped with three bean dishes, pork and a fried item, all mixed together; moro pairs fried rice with chicken and bean sauce. Beef milanesa is a thin, salty breaded cutlet close to Japanese gyukatsu, and choripan is a sausage sandwich. Drinks include Inca Kola and guava juice.