Who here has had "real Mexican food" before?

[zinfamous]

cilantro tastes like dish soap

can you recommend to me the dish soap that you are using? b/c I would love the hell out of that.

 

[Anubis]

can you recommend to me the dish soap that you are using? b/c I would love the hell out of that.

Dawn

however this was in the 80s when i was a bad child and had my mouth washed out with soap for saying bad words, they may have changed their formula since then

 

[chalmers]

I'm not sure why people care so much about what others call types of food, or whether they've had it or not.

I live in Ohio. There's Mexican restaurants around here. I eat there sometimes. Then I go home. If someone from the Southwest wants to nerd rage on the internet on whether what I've eaten is exactly correct to the origins of Mexico, go for it. Hire me for a premium salary and move my family out there and I'll be glad to eat your perfect food.

 

[Harrod]

There is a place in Texarkana, TX/AR that has food like this, it's very good, and costs about as much as you'd spend at Taco Bell.

 

[Perknose]

I'm not sure why people care so much about what others call types of food, or whether they've had it or not.

It's the internet. We wave our e-peens about and argue, often pointlessly. You got a problem with that?

:awe:

 

[chalmers]

It's the internet. We wave our e-peens about and argue, often pointlessly. You got a problem with that?

:awe:

Touché good sir

 

[Fritzo]

You kidding? My wife's family is 2nd generation "just over the fence" Mexican. My in-laws are citizens by birth (their parents were illegal). I eat like that every weekend at their house

If a relative should happen to die---holy cow. Home made barbacoa, taco meat from pigs heads, salsa made in a mocahete, fried tortillias hand made on the spot...they really know how to feed you at a funeral. Almost makes you want a few of those elderly relatives to hurry things along!

As for breakfast, there are few things better than huevos y chorizo with some good rice. Awww man. Starving now

 

[I Saw OJ]

Cisnero's Taqueria #2. Soda is in glass bottles made with real sugar from mexico, none of the chairs around the tables match and has some of the best asada tacos in town.

 

[BurnItDwn]

This "real mexican food" you speak of sounds a lot like "Taquerilla Alamo" near where I work, or "Raul's Burrito Express" near where I live...

 

[Wordplay]

Looks like any taqueria style Mexican restaurant to me. Except for that steak... they serve steaks but it's usually just carne asada steak.

 

[BoomerD]

By "real Mexican food," do you mean food prepared and sold in Mexico, or Mexican-style food prepared by Mexican-people and sold in the USA/Canada, or Mexican-style food prepared by Asian people and sold in the USA/Canada, or Taco Bell?

Anyway, yes, I've had lots of "real Mexican food, both in Mexico and the USA.
There are many different states and regions in Mexico, and each one more-or-less has it's own style of "quisine," although many are pretty similar.

In this area, most of the Mexican food is "Miochoacan-style"because that's the area where many of the Mexicans here come from. <shrug>

I'm not a fan of the "variety meats," and generally won't eat menudo, (tripe) or sesos, (brain), but I will occasionally eat cabeza. (head/cheek meat)

We have a couple of GOOD Mexican restaurants here, and tons of mediocre-to-horrible Mexican restaurants.

Look around. If the place is filled with Mexican-looking people...it's probably authentic Mexican food.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

This "real mexican food" you speak of sounds a lot like "Taquerilla Alamo" near where I work, or "Raul's Burrito Express" near where I live...

Get you down to the 4000 block of North Milwaukee Ave in Chicago; La Palapita is what you are looking for. ...not even sure they are in the phone book.

 

[zerocool84]

I find it kind of sad that someone has to make a thread asking if you've had real Mexican food but I guess that's cus I live in LA.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Get you down to the 4000 block of North Milwaukee Ave in Chicago; La Palapita is what you are looking for. ...not even sure they are in the phone book.

Ehh ... I go into Chicago like 1 or 2 times per year usually ... too crowded for me!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

had some delicious cochinita pibil /w fresh habanero salsa from a roadside 'restaurant' in maya country in october. delicious. probably more ethnic mayan than mexican tho.

made a point to avoid the taco stands during my visits to reynosa and matamoros tho

 

[FM2n]

had some delicious cochinita pibil /w fresh habanero salsa from a roadside 'restaurant' in maya country in october. delicious. probably more ethnic mayan than mexican tho.

made a point to avoid the taco stands during my visits to reynosa and matamoros tho

Dude, you can't make up these food names...

 

[Joemonkey]

I find it kind of sad that someone has to make a thread asking if you've had real Mexican food but I guess that's cus I live in LA.

sadly most people think taco bell and chain mexican restuarants are exactly what "mexican" food is. I had no idea they didn't use sour cream, guacamole, or even cheese on their food until I went down there. Funny thing is I never saw a single plate of rice, refried beans, or guacamole while I was down there either

 

[prism]

I've lived in Phoenix for close to 2 years now, and I've had my fair share. Just a few things I don't like: corn tortillas (unfried), tamales, menudo (I've had beef tripe in Hmong cuisine and loved it though), refried beans (waste of space where meat belongs), getting food poisoning from a place with really good food

 

[darkswordsman17]

I find it kind of sad that someone has to make a thread asking if you've had real Mexican food but I guess that's cus I live in LA.

I think its more that there's not always clear definitions of what makes it authentic. For instance, is a pizza or say french fries made by a Mexican, in Mexico, eaten by another Mexican, authentic Mexican food?

 

[skyking]

My sister married into a Mexican-American family and I was introduced to good food at 6.
Handmade tortillas and anything. Those tortillas were the best. Anybody have fresh chicharones?

 

[exdeath]

I live in Tucson, AZ, of course I have. Try Mi Nidito if you're ever passing through.

My problem is I dislike the traditional three vegitables lettuce, tomato, and onion, so I miss out on 99&#37; of real Mexican food out there. What I do eat is still awesome though... I wonder if they have spinich instead of lettuce, etc...

Best resturants are the ones that serve all you can eat home made tortilla chips or sopapillas the moment you're seated.

Crap now I'm craving and they aren't open Mon and Tues.

 

[Dumac]

I've never been to Mexico, so I doubt it.

I've eaten at a lot of Mexican places in Los Angeles and Houston, but who knows how authentic they are (At the very least it wasn't Tex-Mex...I HATE Tex-Mex)

 

[PieIsAwesome]

I was raised on it, so yes.

 

[ScottyB]

Not me. I enjoy solid BMs.

 

[borisvodofsky]

This

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=31011729#post31011729

thread has me wondering if anyone knows what "real Mexican food" even is. I was in Guadalajara for over a week and ate MANY different types of food, including many different types of tacos, both in restaurants and off a cart on the side of the road. Most of the tacos are 2 corn tortillas, some kinda meat, some kinda sauce, and a tomato/onion mixture. It started out with some simple steak tacos

then another restaurant fried the corn tortillas in a small vat of fat, my first true "hard shell" tacos

Then we hit up the same place 3 days in a row off the side of the road

Pork (yummy)

Beef lip (would not eat again)

Beef tongue (VERY yummy)

Man cannot live on tacos alone though! We went one place where we got a lot of plates of random stuff brought out, the sausage was fantastic

I wasn't a HUGE fan of the deep fried tripe...

But this steak was AWESOME!

Funny thing is on the menu it's listed as "Ojo de bife" which with my limited spanish turned into "eye of beef" *yuk* and I was quickly corrected that it was in fact ribeye

anyway, there is mexican food, tex-mex, americanized mexican, and all kinds of bastardized versions inbetween. In fact, if I had been in Mexico City instead of Guadalajara who knows if i would have come across any of the same food. Just quitcherbitchin' about "real Mexican food" or I'll shove some beef tonge and tripe in your pie hole...

I had real mexican food at this indian place.. called mexican grill.