Overstuffed arepas in Decatur

And then there’s the happy, hot mess you get at Arepa Mia’s new Decatur location. This arepa is a gaping clamshell, so engorged with shredded meats, plantains, guayanés cheese chunks, vegetables and emerald-colored cilantro-parsley sauce that nothing, except a large snake, could get its mouth around that thing.

Try the Sifrina, which has a crisp ruffle of lettuce and a squiggle of Thai chili that breaks through the bland softness of the other innards, among them avocado, crumbly cheese, sweet fried plantains and shredded chicken.

The dessert-like Vegetariana cachapa — a corn kernel-studded pancake piled with butter-soft winter squash, black beans, tender spring greens and plantains — will appeal to both the kid within you and those by your side.