Among the unmissable dishes are lime soup (combination of lime-flavored broth, chicken and crisp tortilla), motuleño eggs (fried tortilla topped with black beans, a sunny-side-up egg), papadzules (fried corn tortillas, dipped in roasted squash seed sauce, topped with hard-boiled eggs and served with a tomato sauce), queso relleno (Edam cheese hollowed out and stuffed with ground meat, raisins, olives, hardboiled eggs, and seasoned with various spices) and of course cochinita pibil (pork pulp marinated in achiote (anatto) wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in an earth oven).

Here you can also try the pavo en escabeche made with turkey marinated with a mixture of cumin, cinnamon, vinegar, garlic, sour orange and salt. After marinating, the meat is fried in lard so that it has a crunchy consistency and is accompanied with slice red onion and güero peppers.

Other dishes that must try on your visit to Valladolid are lomitos, pieces of pork stewed with tomato, serrano pepper, boiled egg and sausage, as well as the legendary poc chuc, a pork fillet marinated in species and sour orange. And the traditional Longaniza Valladolid, a dense smokey sausage typical of this city. You can serve the longaniza with sauce or with scramble eggs.

It also has a good collection of typical sweets, some of the most famous are: almond marzipan, roscas nevadas (donut-shaped cinnamon cookie), coconut sweet and marquesitas (crunchy crepes).

When you visit Yucatán you must try the delicious Xtabentún or the Chokó sakam, aniseed-flavored, herbal, and has a pure honey taste. This ancestral Mayan liqueur is made from fermented honey of xtabentún plant.