Eating In Mexico

During our time in Mexico, we wanted to eat as much local Mexican food as possible. Having become close with our friends Josie and Ruben (who are Mexican-American) while we lived in Bali, we were lucky enough to have them guide us through what we should eat.

Josie directed us on the best breakfast foods, snacks, alcoholic beverages and other meals. We got our fill of amazing local Mexican cuisine.

Chilaquiles

Covered in the same red chili sauce as enchilada, with sour cream drizzled over top and pickled onions, this breakfast style wet burrito is filled with chicken and eggs. It will fill you until dinner and you may even need a nap from indulging in this breakfast delight. Honestly I could not finish it and brought a 1/4 of it home for later.

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Wet Burrito

Covered in the same red chili sauce as enchilada, with sour cream drizzled over top and pickled onions, this breakfast style wet burrito is filled with chicken and eggs. It will fill you until dinner and you may even need a nap from indulging in this breakfast delight. Honestly I could not finish it and brought a 1/4 of it home for later.

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TACOS

"Taco de '' means "Taco of '', honestly you can go into a restaurant, sit down and order a taco. They are good but they are not at the real deal. What you HAVE to do is find a street food stall and order your tacos here (if you see a local eating there that's even better means it is good and cheap). You pick your meat pastro (marinated pork), cabeza (beef head), chicharron (pork rinds), carnitas (deep fried pork), tripas (fried intestine),

lengua (beef tongue), chorizo (chorizo Photo Credit: V.Gray. sausage), arracher (flank steak) ojoj (eyeball) etc. We tried pastor, chorizo, arrachera, tripa (my favourite), ojoj then they warm up your taco, added the meat and let you pick your toppings. Tacos are about 15 pesos a piece, which comes out to around $0.91 CAD.

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Michelada w/ Corona

This refreshing beverage is made of clamato juice, ice, corona, salt rimmer and house sauce. Clamato is tomato juice with spices and dried clam broth (don't twist your nose) normally used to make Caesars and is one of my personal absolute favourites drinks! The rimmer on the Michelada is spicy and gives a nice kick to this light drink. You should try one of these during your time in Mexico, it will not disappoint you.

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Quesada

Flour tortilla filled with a ridiculous amount of oogie gooey cheese and meat. Served with cream fresh and guacamole.

During our time in Mexico I had a running list of dishes I wanted to try and was looking forward to tasting for the first time. However sadly my aspirations got dashed when we fell ill with food poisoning (due to oysters), disabling us for 5 - 7 days and giving us the inability to eat anything or a large meal. We did not regain our normal appetite or stomachs until we landed back in Canada.

However, here is a list of dishes I plan on trying when we return to Mexico. Birria, Pozole, Menduo, Conach's (Pan Dulce), Paloma (beverage) and Tejuino. Mexico and I now have unfinished culinary business, that I will return too.

Cheers!

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