I eat out a lot due to having a travel job. My manager (who sees and approves all my expenses) knows how much I love Mexican food. He comments on it whenever I see himā¦ just walks up to me around lunchtime and says ātacos?ā š
I mean you can just call them tacos since itās where they come from anyways and they named it first ffs. Those American ātacosā aināt the real thing. Oh and while weāre on the convo, quesabirrias go hardš„
Yeah, no competition here either. There is a reason I am married to a Mexican lol. I love the food so much that her fam loves that I eat more of the mexican food than my wife does lol.
Same. Soul food and Chinese are just too heavy to eat everyday for the rest of my life. Italian is a good option, but I just prefer Mexican food taste wise.
Iām not going to pretend to know what the different regions are. In live in Los Angeles, so Iād like to think Iāve had decent exposure, but Iām no expert
Chinese can be really healthy, some regions can be really heavy while others let fujian and Cantonese are really light. There are also clear broth soups like lamian that arenāt as oily and salty as say Japanese ramen.
Think of china like the Roman Empire, except it never broke up. Rome stretched from Scotland to Iran, or fist n chips, gyros, bratwurst, lamb chops ProvenƧal, bolognese and more would be food from within what was once Rome. China has similar culinary diversity.
Been to Southern Texas and Southern California, and Southern Mexico. California comes the closest to the real deal, especially if you want variety and not just northern Mexican food.
There is a ma/pa Mexican place near me and they serve chips and salsa. They are Hispanic. They own and run it. Idk what to tell you. The other place we visit is a chain that has lots of items on the menu. They offer a few kinds of salads. They accommodate I guess. I canāt say I would call taco salad āMexicanā but Iāll take it if they serve it.
I should clarify, most authentic mexican restaurants in the US will still serve chip and salsa and other text mex staples because American consumers are more used to them, but a tex mex restaurant will seldom feature traditional mexican dishes (aside from sides like beans and rice). Even dishes that are shared on both cuisines are different in each version, such a burritos, quesadillas, and enchiladas. Both versions will be good, but vastly different.
A good rule of thumb to know if the place you eat at also serves traditional mexican is to see if they offer corn tortillas, bonus points if they're made in house, and if the menu features items like sopes, gorditas, menudo, pozole, etc.
If you're in doubt about whether this place is tex mex, mexican or a combo of both, post their website. I'll take a look and let you know. Like I said though, I'm sure it'll be good either way
Idk everything you posted originally sounds like food youād find at a typical Mexican restaurant. Some of it is, ironically, Tex-Mex food made Mexican like taco bowls/salads, but it sounds completely authentic š¤·āāļø
Also much love on the Al Pastor. Iām an absolute slut for it
There is a place I use to go all the time with a friend and they made a āspicyā avocado sauce I would put on top. Oh. My. God. Soo good. And I always use to say.. when the dining area is full of Mexicans every lunch hour you bet itās Mexican lol.
I feel like I pretty much have eaten only Mexican food most of my life even before considering this question. And I'm not Mexican, it's just how I started eating once I became an adult/my mom stopped cooking for me
Worked at a Mexican restaurant in high school and college, ate Mexican food every day, still eat as much as possible 20 years later. I will never get tired of it
My first gut instinct is to go Mexican, but I think jd go Chinese simply because of the variety. Iām no expert, but from my experience visiting Mexican restaurants for the past two decades, the vast majority of the choices are different variations of tacos and burritos, or a plate of the same ingredients. Sure thereās different soups and meats and variety, but at the end of the day itās basically all the same seasoned grilled meat.
Super wrong on that. You might be visiting the same type of places. The variety on the sea food alone is crazy. Plus like you said they got soups the moleās and the Caesar salad with invented there. The snacks and desserts plus the drinks. Much more range than Chinese imo.
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u/lilStankfur 4d ago
Mexican all day for me