Roadside Eateries

Since the time I have come to Mexico, I used to eat either own made (not home made) food or used to take lunch in restaurants. First time in my tenure over here I got chance to eat Mexican street food and it was really spicy experience !!

If you ask anybody in India about where can they get the best Pani Puris or Vada Pavs, they will give you name of some streets rathar than restaurants and I had also similar kind of experience here. I visited couple of places with local friends and tried various dishes like Quesadillas, Tacos and Tamales. Being an vegetarian, there were very few options available for me but still it was really great fun in enjoying those limited options.

One thing I have noticed about Mexican food is that they put a lot of cheese in all the dishes. If you take Quesadilla Papas Con Queso (Quesadilla with Potatoes and Cheese), they put equal amount of Potato and Cheese in the Quesadilla (its kind of Indian Roti but thicker compare to Roti and made up of Corn). In case of Tamale of Rajas con Queso (a dish which taste little bit similar to South Indian dish Upama but has green chilli and cheese), you will again find enough of Cheese which makes it a perfect breakfast dish. One of my Indian friend has become a real tamale lover and takes two tamales every Saturday without fail :) In fact he is regretting that he doesn't find enough time to have it in everyday breakfast :)

Road side food has always been a point of concern for health conscious people (including me, sometimes) and many people avoids that but when you compare the taste, nothing beats that. If you go for road side food at lunch time in Mexico, literally you need to wait in a queue to have those delicacies. All these dishes are comparatively mild if you are used to spicy taste of Indian dishes but no need to worry. They have green chilli and red chilli sauce (Chatney in Indian style) which you can add upto your strength !!

I am planning to visit some more places in forthcoming weekends. Lets see how many new dishes I get chance to try.