San Juan Market, Mexico City

These meats include those from iguanas, skunks, deer, rabbit, suckling pigs, goat, wild boar and lowland paca.

[1][4] Fresh meats are from both Mexican and international sources, primarily Central America and the United States, with the most popular being rabbit, venison, wild boar and crocodile.

[1][2][3] Cheese specialties include those from Europe and South America as well as Mexico, with types such as Parmigiano-Reggiano, Roquefort, gruyere, goat manchego with red wine.

[1] The market also carries pre Hispanic Mexican delicacies such as maguey larvae, escamoles, chicatanas (a kind of winged ant), snails and frogs, with clients coming from as far as Europe to buy them.

One three-generation business at the market is Pescadería El Puerto de Santander, selling fish and seafood from Asia and Europe as well as Mexico.

[1][2] The current market building dates from 1955 and was built along with three others, San Juan (today selling handcrafts), Jamaica and Arco de Belén as part of city efforts to regulate sales by small vendors.

[3] The market building were constructed on the site of the former warehouses of the Buen Tono cigar company and was officially named after the former owner of the land, Ernesto Pugibet, who ceded the space to the city.