Here’s one ‘hot’ dog, with or without mayo
“Necesito dos hot dogs, pero sin mayonesa,” Marisela Romero said as she ordered another hot dog in the yellow bus turned eatery.
Inside the Chuyito’s Hot Dogs bus in Rio Rico, about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in a Chevron parking lot, employee Romero tapped on the window that separates the seating area from the kitchen to get chef Martin Lopez’s attention.
She formed a “v” with her left hand and pressed it against the window.
“Con chilies?” Lopez asked in his soft-spoken tone.
“Si,” Romero responded as she pulled her arms to her side to squeeze by a customer in the cramped bus-gone-canteen that specializes in the Sonoran hot dog.
The blue, red and yellow bus, which looks like it may have transported schoolchildren in its previous life, is gutted and has room for a small kitchen and four seating booths.
If the inside seats fill up, there are a few tables and chairs set up in front of the bus, too.
All of the workers in Chuyito’s speak Spanish only.