{"id":232429,"date":"2026-05-15T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232429\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:20:08","slug":"queens-world-cup-guide-where-to-eat-and-watch-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232429\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens World Cup Guide: Where to Eat and Watch Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador arrives at its fifth World Cup with real momentum, and in Corona, which Fernando Cando, <a target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener\" noreferrer=\"\" nofollow=\"\" class=\"&quot;text-[#781e2a]\" underline=\"\" href=\"&quot;https:\/\/culinarybackstreets.com\/stories\/queens\/leticias\/&quot;\">chef-owner of Leticias<\/a>, describes as &#8220;half-Mexican, half-Ecuadorian,&#8221; that means something. Cando grew up blocks from his restaurant, opened it in 2016 on National Street bordering Corona Plaza, and named it after his mother Leticia, who always had something on the stove when family came over. The menu is built on that kitchen: encebollado, a fish stew with cassava; the pork trio of fritada, hornado and chorizo he calls tres chanchitos, loosely &#8220;three little piggies&#8221;; and tripa mishqui, grilled pork intestines, popular street food in both Ecuador and on Corona Plaza itself, cleaned and marinated until they&#8217;re genuinely mishqui, the Quechua word for delicious. Cando now pours cocktails built around Ecuadorian spirits and fruits: naranjilla, colada morada. Ecuador&#8217;s first NY\/NJ-window match falls on June 25, and this is one of the borough&#8217;s clearest expressions of the community that will be watching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"button-read-full-story text-brand underline cursor-pointer mt-5\">\n          Read more\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ecuador arrives at its fifth World Cup with real momentum, and in Corona, which Fernando Cando, chef-owner of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-232429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}