Cut other stalk into 3-inch pieces; add with chili, remaining lime leaves and mango cubes to stock.

Try the red beans with condensed milk on shaved ice (Y26) and the fresh mango cubes on shaved ice (Y34).

Yendu aavakaaya (Aavakaaya with pickled, dried mango cubes mildly sweetened with Jaggery)

A blackened mahi mahi, moist inside, with a crusty exterior on a noteworthy sweet potato mash escorted by mango cubes and pineapple chunks, was by far the outstanding entree.

Another appetizer, a lobster empanada ($8.95) shaped like a brioche, is decent enough, but it comes with a salad of earthy lentils and sweet mango cubes that, altogether, is another excellent combination.

A few appetizer specials to listen for are sweet scallops nestled on their beautiful shells prepared casino-style with plenty of bacon, peppers and onions; tequila-glazed squab, served rare, over spinach salad with mango cubes and dots of a strawberry vinaigrette; and a roasted corn chowder floating a grilled cheese-lobster half sandwich.

Dr. Abhay Ashtekar, the leader of a worldwide effort to unify the two most profound, abstract and mathematically baroque theories of physics discovered in this century, is sprinkling frozen mango cubes on scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Vendors sell mango cubes, quesadillas, tripe soup and tamarind soda out of vehicles ranging from tiny metal carts to a 15-foot-long violet truck bearing the words "Mini Picantería El Guayaquileño" that is parked at 80th Street and Roosevelt Avenue.