Mexico

In one of my last areas, we lived off of elote, the corn on the cob with mayonnaise, cheese, and chili powder. So good. Enchiladas suizas are delicious. And los pingüinos, the little, like, cupcakes. They're really good. And you'll probably buy them all the time. Chokis also are everybody's best friend.

It's so good. I love enchiladas. I love all the tacos I had. Their burritos are also so good. If you ever get to be in casas grandes, they'll hand make flour tortillas and make them on wood-burning stoves, and they're so good. Pozole is great. It's a soup. Yeah, no, everything's great. Tortas there. You might learn in Spanish that torta means cake, but in Mexico it means a kind of sandwich. Those are awesome. Dulces de parral, they're kind of like dulce de leche candies, and they're delicious. So yeah, just get pumped and practice eating spicy food. Maybe eat some jalapenos or something.

Some of my favorite foods in Mexico are just the simplest, like, I can't believe nobody's ever thought of this anywhere else, kinds of foods. And that, I think the biggest one is enchiladas. You might know enchiladas here in the States, and it's not the same at all. For starters, there's no oven involved. It won't be a really thick tomato sauce. It's usually using the green ones, a little sour, green tomatoes. And they'll boil tortillas in this sauce that they've made from that, and then fill it with shredded chicken and cover it in this, this white cheese. It kind of crumbles, and it's, it's fantastic. It's so good. And I complain about enchiladas every day because they're not the same here. And I, eat some for me, please.

If you are going to Hermosillo, you are going to eat the best food of your entire life. It is so amazing. La carne asada, the carne asada is so good. It's probably the best carne asada in the whole world because that's where most of Mexico gets its top quality meat from. They also have things like ceviche and just so many good things. You can eat street tacos, eat dogos, hot dogs that are so much better than any hot dogs you've ever had in the United States.

They call them aguas frescas, or fresh waters. They're basically like homemade juices that people make. They have agua de naranja, so orange, horchata, which you might be familiar with, but just imagine what you've tasted and multiply its deliciousness by at least 10, because it is so good. There's pozole, which is like a soup with corn in it and a different kind of meat, and there's all kinds of stuff you put on top of it. It sounds weird, but it is so good. And then they've got morisqueta. Again, when I explain it, it sounds kind of weird. There's rice with these beans on top, and you put all kinds of toppings like cream and cheese and hot sauce. Mostly they have corn tortillas, and they're homemade, and they come in stacks. Sometimes when you get to go eat the food, they won't give you a spoon or a fork. They'll give you a stack of tortillas, and that is glorious.

I absolutely love the street food in Mexico, just the taco stands, gorditas, huaraches, just all of that stuff. It's kind of risky, like you got to make sure you're finding a good place so you don't get sick from it, but that is the stuff I love. Also just like normal foods is like flautas and or tacos dorados, that's what they call them a lot of times, or just like milanesa, like it's just like breaded chicken, that's pretty good too. Those are some of my favorite things.

The best food that Oaxaca has is 100% the tlayuda. It's a big tortilla that they make. It's a little bit thicker than the tortillas that we have here and it's handmade, of course. The tortillas here are not handmade and therefore not as good. But it's a handmade tortilla, super big, and they just spread, it's called asiento, which is pig fat, which kind of sounds a little gross, but I think it goes well with it. And then beans, their meat, cabbage, and salsa, of course. The hottest salsa you can find. The hotter the salsa, the better it is. And then they grill it on like a little charcoal thing, outdoor usually. Serve it with more salsa and guacamole, of course. And best food that you can find in Oaxaca.

Favorite food, obviously being in Mexico, were the tacos. Specifically the tacos al pastor, which are like pork tacos, but they're on this giant spinning thing. It's called a trompo, which translates to top, like a spinning top, and it's just like blasted with fire from the side. And then when it's cooked, they just kind of like cut it off and throw it in a taco, and then they put grilled pineapple on it with salsa. It's really good. I also liked it was called chiles enogados, and it's like a chile poblano filled with meat and potatoes and stuff. And then there's like a creamy pomegranate sauce that they put on top with like pomegranate. And it sounds really weird, but it's really good.

Tacos El Pastor. It's pork, pineapple on it, and it's it's really good. Love it.

I'm just going to talk about one food that I absolutely loved. In Mexico they make these lentils, so lentejas, and they'll throw in salchicha, which is like basically a hot dog, but they'll just chop it up. They'll throw in boiled egg, the lentils obviously, and they just mix that with plantains, so fried bananas. They throw that in there, and they also put in bacon or ham, and it's absolutely delicious. That has to be my favorite food from Mexico. Tacos are good too. You'll eat a lot of tacos.

Las gorditas de Mixquac. They're amazing. I only ever had one, but I wish I had had many, many more.

The tacos are very different than here and they're famous in like we're like world-famous like all of Latin America talks about Mexico's tacos and also they have spicy foods so some of the places are a little bit more sketchy but some of them are better but there that was definitely a plus. There's really good hamburgers too like that they make that are with pineapple and stuff like that so that's really good. Specifically in like Huachinango they have really good places in the center square so that's really good. One more thing that's really good in terms of food are called huaraches. Literally translated it means sandals but they're just like big like flat or like tortilla things that are like like shaped like a sandal like they're like like a big yes like shaped like a sandal and they cover them with meat and cheese and like some sort of vegetables and they're really really good so huaraches they have those in Huachinango.

Some of my favorite food in Oaxaca, and I'm going to give you just kind of three examples here. The first typical food is tlayudas, and it's basically a big taco, huge taco, with cheese and meat and and with lettuce and different kind of vegetables, tomatoes, and it's so good. It's the most typical thing you eat in Oaxaca. The second thing is mole. Now mole is a chocolate kind of salsa that you put in and put with chicken, and you normally eat it as like a little soup, and you put it with chicken, so that's very typical. And mole, Oaxaca is known to have the best, but I think one of my most favorite meals was eating a carne asada, that's a certain type of meat, with rice and lettuce, with lemon, and then with some beans, and with like a nice Coke, and I found that in an area called Sachila, and I would always go there, and I still crave it every day. It's so good. So those are some of my favorite foods in Oaxaca.

First off, tacos. Tacos are incredible. I love tacos so much. I'm always looking for some good tacos. The food down there basically has three flavors. There's lime, salt, and chili. And I love those three things. I freaking love salsa. I love anything spicy. I look for the spiciest things now here in America and I just throw it on there. Try to put as much on just so I could enjoy it again. You learn to love it. Your taste buds, they get used to it and it gets great. And aguas calientes, there is this ice cream. It's like this yogurt fruit ice cream. It's called chasca frutas. It is one of the best things about aguas calientes, specifically that state. And everyone there loves it.

I particularly like tamales, I like mole, I like torrejas, which is bread, like a french toast. I like rosca, de nuez, or escamoles, which are ant eggs, or chimicuiles.

Some of my favorite food in Oaxaca was just all the fruit. Like I kid you not, there's so many mangoes in Oaxaca. I served in a place called La Uyaga and there alone they produce and export over 60 different species or subspecies of mango and it was so fun just to have so much fruit available. Fruit is cheap, avocados are cheap, just the produce is all over the place. Definitely the best food in all of Oaxaca are Tlayudas. It's pretty much just like a ginormous taco. If you want to imagine it, they take a really huge tortilla, cover it with mantequilla de puerco, which is just kind of like a... You'll figure it out. And then they put beans in there, a lot of good steak. Um, they put it in the fire, then they put cheese in it. It's just a huge, huge taco and it is amazing. So you're going to love that for sure.

The food in Mexico is so good. I loved pretty much everything we had. Tacos, the street food, it was all so good. But probably my favorite dish that I ate was the enchiladas verdes. I thought they were so good every time a sister asked me like, hey, what kind of food do you like? I always told her enchiladas. They were filling and they were spicy and they were just delicious.

There's a lot of really good food in Mexico and especially in Tampico because Tampico is a port city, so there's a lot of seafood. You can get a lot of good stuff. You can get ceviche, which is like the shrimp fish kind of cocktail. I've had crab and shark which are also really good. And some of the other areas in the cities around there, they hand make flour tortillas because usually in Mexico with meals they have corn tortillas, but the hand made flour tortillas are super good. So basically anything with that is great. I also like chiles rellenos, which are big poblano chili peppers stuffed with either cheese or meat and then battered and fried. Those are really good. So, I mean, you're going to enjoy almost all the food. It's really good.

Liquado, or drinkable yogurts, are good. Those are one of my favorites. Manta ray was really good. That's my first time I've ever had it, but that was down there. As well as shark.

I really love the tacos, tacos al pastor, and that's another thing that I also like. Tamales, tortas, we would always call it vitamin t, which stands for tamales, tortas, and tacos. Just it's really delicious food. Spicy food is really great. Once you get used to it, you really learn to enjoy all the delicious chilies and all the different sauces that they have that they'll put on things and all the salsa. It's just really, really delicious and really great food. Definitely, I would say the Mexican food is some of the best food that I've ever tried anywhere in the whole world.

My favorite dish is called pozole. Some of you guys may have tried this, but it's a soup that's traditional of Mexico and it's really, really flavorful. It's got a special type of corn and then they just put a lot of really good seasonings in it and they eat it sometimes as a soup or sometimes like on tostadas. It is amazing. It's one of those foods that's kind of part of their national identity and so on like Independence Day or Christmas or like these big occasions, these Mexican families will just whip out a massive, massive pot of this stuff and serve it up to all the family and friends on the block. So it's really something that people come together over and has become kind of a holiday icon. So every time that you have the chance to eat pozole is a privilege that you should take advantage of.

Obviously I love quesadillas and tacos de carne asada. Oh, those are delicious from the street. Get some street tacos while you're down there, man. Those are amazing. I love enchiladas. Those are super good. I love chile relleno. That's really good. Yeah, and then besides that, you just, every day you're eating rice and beans and meat with a big stack of corn tortillas and you just eat with your hands. You don't even have to use a fork. So super awesome the way Mexicans eat.

So my favorite foods are pozole, which is like this soup with corn and lettuce and you put like radish on top and oregano, it's so good. Chiles rellenos, which are like big chili peppers filled with cheese and like fried, oh they're so good. Enchiladas verdes, which are just green enchiladas and mole. I've heard from other people that mole kind of makes them sick, but it didn't ever make me sick or like give me diarrhea or anything. It's so good, it's this wonderful sauce that they put on chicken and stuff. Also like as far as street food goes, tacos, elotes, esquites are really good. The juice is delicious.

Tacos obviously all day long, elotes and esquites. So that's where they do the corn on a stick and they put it with mayonnaise and chili and lime. Oh my gosh, it's so good. And in Queretaro they also have, it's called the gordita queretana, and so it's just like a giant, it's like a really thick tortilla and they like put stuff in it like meat or cheese or something like that and then you put your salsa on top of it. Also delicious. Mexican food is just sent from heaven.

You have to eat as much pan dulce as you possibly can. Eat some conchas. Pie de queso, so good. It's like a little mini cheesecake all for yourself. Besos are really good. Huesos are really good. You're gonna have a panaderia on the corner. Go there, frequently. Oh my gosh, tacos. Like, hands down. Even taco de cabeza, like head tacos. Those are super good. Don't knock until you try it. Pombasos are like a sandwich made with chili stuff. Super great. Pozole, oh my god. You need to eat as much pozole as you can. It's like a soup with really big grains of rice. Sorry, corn. Grains of corn in it. Eat as many of those as you can. Green enchiladas, enchiladas verdes. Mole, mole is super good. It'll kill your stomach the first couple times you eat it, but after that, become your favorite. Real taquitos, not taquitos. Taquitos are gross. Taquitos, super delicious. Don't eat papaya.

My favorite food by far the tacos. I'm a big fan of tacos now. I was before, even bigger fan now. Tacos are the world down there. You know, they love tacos. If you're ever in Coautla, you should write this down. You should visit Tortugas. It's by the center of Coautla. Best tacos and alamres ever. Enchiladas verdes are good down there. Pozole is pretty traditional down there. You'll eat a lot of that. Honestly, I didn't eat a lot of foods that I didn't like. So once again, just try everything. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. But yeah, for sure the tacos, they say don't eat in the streets, but sometimes you can find good street tacos. Just you got to be careful and ask around of the people you know and see which ones are the better ones. But yeah, tacos for sure.

The flour tortillas, they make them really thick and they're really, really tasty. And so, um, yeah, that's basically my favorite food. You could have it with anything, with beans, rice, just a regular quesadilla is pretty good.

Most Americans, we love Mexican food, but it's a lot better when you're actually in Mexico. And the food that they have in this part of Mexico is so good, and it's really fattening. It's a lot of cheese, a lot of meat, beans, flour tortillas, soda, everything is just a really high high calorie, but it's so good. My favorite food, I would have to say, are las enchiladas suizas, which are green enchiladas with a creamy green sauce, and they put cheese on top, and it's just so good.

So my favorite thing about the food in Villahermosa is that they really like things hot. Like you think Mexico's just like hot food, but Villahermosa they like eat habanero, chilies, just plain, and I love that. So like their food is super super spicy, pica mucho, but that was the best. They also, they make this green spaghetti and it's so so good. And like I don't know if you can find it in other places in Mexico, but it's so good and so creamy. They use green tomatoes and cream, so good. Also they have tamales there, they chipolines, so they're green and then they have pork inside of them or just like any kind of meat and they're so good. Like really to die for, just really wonderful.

So my favorite food was definitely cochinita. It was just this, it was pork and it was this like kind of paprika tasting. It was super fatty but it was so good and they'd put it on like sandwiches, they'd have it in tacos and it was amazing. The other stuff that was great was the tamales. You would like cook them in the ground and you would like, you'd light a fire in the ground, you'd get charcoal going and then you'd put the tamales on top of it and it was just the best thing ever and they'd always throw habanero salsa on it so like you couldn't feel your mouth but it tasted amazing.

One of the best foods you can get in Chiapas, it's actually a drink and it's called pozole. It's made with corn and cacao which is chocolate. You drink it in a big thing like a kind of a bowl made out of a fruit that's dried called a jícara and you have to swirl it around because there's a bunch of parts of the corn that aren't ground up all the way. So you have to mix it all together and then you drink it and it's the best thing ever on a hot day because you're sweating and you're hungry and you're thirsty and it satisfies all those needs because it's super super cold. It tastes amazing and it fills you up and it gets rid of your thirst.

If you don't like Coke now, you will like it when you go to Oaxaca and when you come back you will be addicted to it because I'm pretty sure you'll drink more Coke than you will water in Oaxaca or anything else. Also, I don't know what it is but the fruit there is really good and they make water out of the fruit so you can have watermelon water, you can have melon water, and it's just really really good.

I loved everything with salsa verde, green salsa. My two favorites were probably tamales with salsa verde and enchiladas suizas, which is essentially like green enchiladas with cream cheese slotted over the top, super good. Tlayudas are awesome as well, essentially just like a pizza folded in half, but it's a tortilla. And mangos de piña, also called mangos de chupar. There's these little mangos in the coast that are amazing, super juicy, super sweet. I lived off of them for a month straight.

Tacos al pastor, and what it is is it's part of the leg of the the pig. What they'll do is they'll have it on these big, they call them trompos, which is like it looks like a humongous top shaped kind of like like a little spinning tops. It's just meat that's stacked to shape like that and they've got this burning kind of like just this fire stuff blowing out the back of it to heat up like to cook the meat and then they chop it off and they stick it in a taco and they put a little bit of roasted pineapple in there and some chive and onion. It's so good. There, those are the best. And to top it off with some salsa, mmm, so good.

I would definitely say that my favorite thing of all was tacos al pastor which is al pastor is like a it's a pork that's been fried and marinated and you throw some lime a little onion some cilantro on top of that and you're good to go you're in great shape. Another couple things I really liked gorditas were really good which is like a almost like a fried tortilla of sorts that's been stuffed with meat or any combination of meat cheese vegetables. I really like the flautas I really liked the enchiladas mole was pretty good some people don't love it but I actually liked it a decent amount yeah overall the food is phenomenal it's really really good if you get closer to Tampico there's more fish so you know if that's your liking then that's great as well.

One of the things that I will point out that is pretty unique, I feel like, is something called a chamoyada, which is basically a really good, really different kind of snow cone that they put in cups. But instead of sweet syrup, they add tomoy sauce, which is basically this vinegar, pepper-based sauce that they're mixing with a lot of sugar and lime juice. And on top of that, you put in fruits. You can put in diced up strawberries, mango, any fruit, and sometimes they'll even put in a little candy in there as well, usually gummies. It sounds kind of gross at first and took some time for me to get used to it, but if you find the right place, it's a really good refreshing snack on a really hot day. I highly recommend it.

Aside from like tacos and pretty much everything else, because honestly the food in Mexico just in general is so so good, one of my personal favorites that I had almost every morning in a period of time was like a torta de tomal and a tole. A tole is like this drink that uh people in Mexico would drink. It's kind of like hot chocolate if you will, but also not. And then a torta de tomal, it's like a tamale, like a corn tamale with different flavors. Like there's a one that's like a dulce flavor, which is kind of sweeter. There's like a green tamale that's a lot more, I don't know, it's like different type of meat and corn and inside of it with like a sandwich kind of like bread. And it's so so good. Not the healthiest, a lot of carbs, but it's so so delicious and I would have that a lot of times, especially in the mornings. Getting up, getting ready for the day.

If you've ever seen Nacho Libre, there's that scene where he throws the corn and it sticks the guy in the eye. Those are called elotes, those are real. It's just corn with mayonnaise and cheese and sometimes chili powder. Those are really good. Tamales are better in Mexico State than any other state in all of Mexico, don't care who you're talking to. They have these strawberry flavored ones, they have salsa verde, they have rajas, which is like chili pepper ones, they have mole flavored tamales. Mole, what it is, it's kind of like a curry almost. You grind up a whole bunch of different random condiments and put them in water and mix it all up and serve it as a sauce over rice or chicken and stuff like that. It's also really good.

The little multigrano or multigrain bars. Mangoes are my favorite. My favorite soup down there in Mexico, which was one of my favorite foods, was pasuole. It's like white hominy corn. And meat, the broth. It's just, add some hot sauce, some limones or some limes, and you're good to go. Horchata is a sweet rice drink, and it's really tasty. I recommend it. The jamaica is made from the hibiscus flower. And that's really tasty. It's really good for in the summer. Also, sabada and temperado, which are green drinks. Those are really good too, especially in the winter.

My favorite foods from Mexico were definitely the tacos. We had tacos de carne asada, which is like steak tacos, and they're just super flavorful, super good, and the tortillas are super fresh. They make them out of corn there, and just really good ingredients, and really fresh, and I just really loved how all the food in Mexico had so much flavor, and it could be spicy if you wanted to. You also didn't have to make it spicy. It was all so good.