Among these products are fish and shellfish such as acamayas, mojarra, crab and crayfish are the base of almost all the typical dishes of these beautiful town.

If you like something more exotic, you can try the tismiches, larvae of fish such as boobies and crustaceans that are dried and eaten as pancakes or in a stew with tomato, olives and capers, in other words, Veracruz style.

Another of the dishes that you should not miss in Tlacotalpan are the fried empanadas filled with meat, cheese, shrimp, crab or snail. Likewise, you can try sea bass stuffed with seafood and a wide variety of tamales with beans, pumpkin seeds, izote, aniseed, stew and many other fillings.

You can explore more the taste of other popular dishes like canates (a species of bird similar to a duck) with garlic sauce, mondongo (roasted offal seasoned with garlic, salt and olive oil) and arroz a la tumbada, a dish similar to paella made with various seafood such as octopus, crab and shrimp.

You can delight yourself with delicious desserts like: sopa borracha, a cake made with slices of marquesote (traditional bread that is rather dry and very brittle) bathed in honey and sherry, with raisins, pine nuts, almonds and grated coconut. Other desserts are the buñuelos de queso (cheese fritters) with piloncillo and the beso de duque (duke's kiss), a caramelized biscuit.

Among the traditional drinks are toritos prepared with milk, brandy and peanuts or fruit. Other options are coconut water and the cold popo, made with ground cocoa, rice, anise, cinnamon and chupipi, a herb from the region.