burrito vs taco

for some reason, i thought the difference was rice, but apparently i am wrong?

taco is mexican food
burrito is american food

for some reason, i thought the difference was rice, but apparently i am wrong?

― just1n3, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:44 AM (3 minutes ago)

corn tortillas vs. flour tortillas

In the UK what are sold as tacos are hard u-shaped corn shells, but we are notoriously bad at Mexican food.

yeah mexican food isn't really a thing in nz, either

fuck burritos - wheaty bastardos - taco forever

i used to prefer burritos until i moved to a place with great mexican food, now it's tacos or gtfo

tacos!

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I have my beans

i prefer pizza

pizza is a shithorse

tacos! better ease of salsa customization, for one.

In the UK what are sold as tacos are hard u-shaped corn shells, but we are notoriously bad at Mexican food.

Not gonna get into this again but, notorious as this may be, it's actually really easy to find good Mexican food in London and anyone that fails to do so is just lazy.

Anyway, I love a burrito but I will never turn down a couple of hard shell tacos filled with STUFF.

voting beanbag but i liek tacos too. when i was younger & hungrier i'd have 1 of each (no-rice burrito)

there's another poll: burritos with or w/o rice?

also it's more fun to eat three small things than one giant thing

Burritos are in fact from Mexico. That said, tacos and burritos are both Mexican and American now. The popular Mission style burrito (what Chipotle sells) was developed by Mexican immigrants in San Francisco, etc.

My preference depends on my mood and sometimes the filling (although I can't imagine a good filling working in one format and not the other).

the taco is actually a stale pizza with no roof

sopes

sopes vs tortas vs cemitas

tacos

I can handle chicharron tacos but chicharron burritos are wayyyyy too much

i really like the bean & cheese & hot sauce burrito at the taco place up the street from me. sets me back about $3 a pop!

burritos have their place, definitely, but i'm a fan of the simplicity and modularity of the taco.

also, rice in a burrito is just UGH, no need.

Tacos by a mile! Burritos are too floury/doughy/huge. I loooooooove tacos. (see WDYTLL thread for some real taco talk)

I like a little rice in my burrito, not too much. There was a great place in Redding -- always got the grilled chicken/roasted green chile burrito. But then I discovered the spicy shrimp burrito at La Cabana, which was underpriced for its size and the amt of shrimp.

fish tacos rule

^^^

I like lettuce or cabbage or pickled cabbage in my burritos over rice. I don't really need starch and starch and starchy beans.

hard shell tacos are great, but they lack the brick-like quality of the best burritos.

That little bit of cabbage in a fish taco is a beautiful texture counterpoint.

Burritos are in fact from Mexico. That said, tacos and burritos are both Mexican and American now. The popular Mission style burrito (what Chipotle sells) was developed by Mexican immigrants in San Francisco, etc.

My preference depends on my mood and sometimes the filling (although I can't imagine a good filling working in one format and not the other).

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:13 PM (25 minutes ago)

not willing to argue about this but you can find burritos in maybe <4% (feeling generous today) of Mexican restaurants in Mexico whereas you can find tacos in >80%.

burritos are a postbellum cuisine from the American Southwest bordertown of El Paso/Juarez. tacos go back zillions of years.

pickled red onions ftw

is there some technique to eating a taco correctly that prevents the filling from flopping out all over the place?

i won't usually turn down a starch for a vegetable, but the 'tacos' (loose definition) i made last night were wrapped in cabbage leaves instead of tortillas and they were amazing.

rice is great! wtf are you ppl all on atkins diet or something?? your poor kidneys...

dude nobody said rice wasn't great

Pinch both sides of the tortilla between your thumb and index/middle finger and use your ring/pinky to close the end or, as I usually do it, eat taco, clean up plate w/tortilla or fork for extra taste fun.

i just had some rice for lunch! but it wasn't in a burrito.

ok i gotcha

is there some technique to eating a taco correctly that prevents the filling from flopping out all over the place?

― just1n3, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:47 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

stuff the whole thing into your mouth as fast as you can and then spend 10 minutes chewing it

yeah but see that's my problem - i have a really small mouth (literally)

then: no

tacos don't deserve this

Enchiladas

wot about that fruckin frisbee from taco hell

http://www.tacobell.com/menuitem/Crunchwrap-Supreme

huaraches

tortas

what other mexican food can we name

mole

taco: all killer no filler

enjoy yr rice tho n00bs

this is not a choice anyone should have to make

*burritos are better to go as they stay warm better

Wait now I'm confused about the difference between tacos and burritos too. :[

must admit beefy times give me tummy the reefy time - far prefers to the chicxen or da beaney bo

burritos have beans and rice in them and are big and all folded up, generally speaking tacos never them

OK that makes sense. I love them both but eat burritos more often because you see veg burritos more often than veg tacos, I guess.

you never them

OTM get bent

burritos are a lot more useful if you have to pack a lunch - growing up in southern California I worked with a lot of guys who'd bring burritos to work from home and would often share and that's still some of the best food I ever had. also once you go veg your taco options get limited pretty fast. idk to me tacos are a snack, a burrito'll hold me most of the day. also the word "burrito" is way funnier than taco. finally, people who are voting "hardshell taco" should be smoked out & banned from this poll.

I will put a taco on my log for you to worshp

want fish taco rn

http://www.robbwalsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/IMG_5551.jpg

idk to me tacos are a snack

just eat more tacos

Oh man. The last time I had Mexican I was all psyched to order the fish tacos only to be told that the had removed them from the menu. It was very disappointing.

Why would anyone do that?

It just seems mean.

aerosmith, you ever tried lentil 'meat' on a taco? pretty good stuff

No fish or out of season?

xpost

i want a puffy taco so bad, right now

It's so great that IRL I don't have to choose (I went with burrito though)

I know that tacos are the sophisticated choice but sometimes (usually) you (I) just want a pound of low-quality greasy grilled meat in a giant sack of flour and lard

Justine - I make tacos at home with Boca fake ground beef but I think maybe aero means you don't see veg taco options much out at restaurants. That's my experience at least.

thi scalls for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5d9RN0WzY

oh yeah we have tacos at home sometimes and there's a great Mexican restaurant here that does various veggie tacos. but tbrr the only taco place I'd put up against several of the best burritos I've had is King Taco on Cypress in LA, otherwise I am a burrito eater plain and simple.

there is no hierarchy of sophistication in the meat/cheese/peppers/rice confabulation

MW - no I don't think so. I mean it's summer and we're on the coast and they probably just use frozen fish normally anyway? I don't know. It was baffling.

there is no reason you cant make a hard taco with refired beans in em

Remy, there is a dish in Okinawa called "Taco Rice" which is basically like Japanese style Mexican-food through an American-military PX filter. Kinda funny, but great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco_rice

huaraches

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:00 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

i thought huaraches were a subset of tacos. or a shoe.

tacos can also be filled with apple slices

huaraches are thick and oval-shaped and don't fold, and usually have different/more toppings than tacos. i think of them as separate but equal.

oh yeah we have tacos at home sometimes and there's a great Mexican restaurant here that does various veggie tacos. but tbrr the only taco place I'd put up against several of the best burritos I've had is King Taco on Cypress in LA, otherwise I am a burrito eater plain and simple.

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:24 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

el parian on pico is all-time 4 me.

basically it's a big sope, right?

the one place i know that does them they're on the taco menu

they're also huge and weirdly shaped, so i guess i just thought it meant 'huge weird shaped impractical taco'

fish tacos are a whole 'nother thing - so good w/that cabbage & crema aka mexican cole slaw

could really go for a mulita

i'm going to get tacos right now, do u guys want any

ned needs to go here and report back:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2011/07/tacos_y_mulitas_ruben_santa_ana.php

just saying

http://dudelol.com/img/he-wouldnt-have-made-it-look-so-much-like-a-taco.jpg

is that in the bible?

carne asada...in my vagina?

it's in the Jewish bible

xp

Tacos

http://takosher.com/

That looks lame.

I got to admit - I like burritos better. I guess it mainly comes down to a flour vs. corn thing.

got sopes for lunch cuzza this thread and holy shit these girls walked into the place outta nowhere and they were like fuuuuuuuuuu

thank you thread

has any nice "menu depends on what looks good at the farmers market" restaurant tried to harness and re-interpret the glorious excess of a cheap burrito that weighs more than a preemie though. i know you can make an intelligent burrito but i rarely eat them.

heh just read the thread I went to king taco

on pico tho

Tbh, I probably eat tortas more often than either tacos or burritos these days. There's a place that makes awesome chicken tortas near my office.

*burritos are better to go as they stay warm better
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 4:05 PM (1 hour ago)

This otm burritos travel better

Otherwise tacos yo

vvvvv dibs vvvvv

also yeah nthing tacos, and the concept of eating more tacos

but do not eat 100 tacos

http://nedroid.com/images/badcomicspage5.gif

tacos are better

just eat more tacos

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 4:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

also it's more fun to eat three small things than one giant thing

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

haha!

tacos motherfucker

in a taco place

ha

yay those were good

not willing to argue about this but you can find burritos in maybe <4% (feeling generous today) of Mexican restaurants in Mexico whereas you can find tacos in >80%.

burritos are a postbellum cuisine from the American Southwest bordertown of El Paso/Juarez. tacos go back zillions of years.

According to wikipedia, burritos specifically and burrito-like foods go back further than that. Burritos are certainly known in northern Mexico (Juarez is in Mexico of course). Tacos are certainly more traditional and more popular with Mexicans (and older since flour tortillas didn't come to the new world until the Spanish brought them), but certain smaller burritos are definitely Mexican and virtually all others are obviously Mexican derived and created by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. None of this affects their flavor or awesomeness.

Also, I thought tacos were Korean now.

i always thought consumer price index should be re-centered around burritos because an average burrito can sustain a human life for a day.
sadly, the burrito price index broke the $5 barrier some time ago!

would you guys say a burrito roughly equals four tacos? there's some taco-to-burrito arbitrage in play here...

I had Korean tacos in the Central Time Zone and they felt very much like a forced activity, but I respect the whole idea going on there

A burrito is like the sheer bulk of six tacos plus a giant pile of unhappy diced onions and cheese shreds. Often I order tacos and do the thing where you turn every double-tortilla'd taco into two individual single-tortilla'd tacos with their own lives and still leave unsatisfied.

I <3 Korean tacos, I got some today

why are the diced onions and cheese unhappy

oh cause you're gonna eat them

in a delicious burrito

i forgot about tortilla-splitting taco life-extension! salsa bar is crucial to this operation.

tacos are good but I think there's sorta an upper limit to how good a taco can be

like I have had some fantastic tacos in my life but I feel like they are probably about as good as a taco is gonna get

whereas the idea of a perfect burrito is like a mysterious religious-type thing

just make a taco with a burrito tortilla imo

yeah! can't you just perform burrito re-assignment operation on a taco to pierce this supposed taco-ceiling?

korean tacos good, vietnamese tacos better.

anyway as someone whose insides could probably be described as an unhappy pile of cheese and onions, i gotta go burrito here.

basically anything with grilled meat + spicy sauce + some sort of pickled veg + a breadlike consumption vehicle is gonna be a winner for me.

i wasnt settled on this matter so i went and ate a couple of slammin' fish tacos, and i will be goddamned if i'll vote for a fuckin burrito now

FYI the cheese and onions are all unhappy because they were cut up earlier in the day and have just been sitting around in little metal dishes gaining weird color-muting casts for hours waiting for me personally to snarf them up

i had fish and chips over the weekend. the beer-battered cod was gorgeous, but would have been better in a tortilla with some salsa.

wish i didn't have to go to london for a damn taco

if your fish and chips would have been better in a corn tortilla it is incorrect fish and chips

qua fish & chips it was quite good! but i'm imagining the taco possibilities and drooling.

wish i didn't have to go to london for a damn taco

lol

WDYTLL?

i don't mean to sound prurient but many of ilx's tacos are pictured here ^^

those are some gangster tacos LL

how do you guys pronounce the word taco

tah koe

xp thank you, i do what i can

tay koin

not TACK-oh

tacos or gtfo

and if your taco has a hard shell g even further tfo. that's not a taco, that's a tostada or some shit.

would like a couple of fish gtfo's right now

this thread makes me wish there was a taco bell in my town

I wish that every nice farm-to-table Mexican concept restaurant was required to serve their pork belly tacos in violently red Volcano shells

I had Korean tacos in the Central Time Zone and they felt very much like a forced activity, but I respect the whole idea going on there

Del Seoul?

100% tacos every time

i always thought consumer price index should be re-centered around burritos because an average burrito can sustain a human life for a day.

this is a big part of burrito romance for me. if you have one burrito, you're good to go. you will be all right. technically, that's probably true with one taco, too, but...c'mon. the "a burrito will keep you alive" feeling is palpable, because of the gut-filling goodness of the burrito. which, again, travels better than a taco. burrito is basically sandwich in this poll, and taco is crudité.

g even further tfo

btw Rev if I haven't told you before I love you & you are awesome, this cracked me up

maybe you should eat more idk

I miss Korean tacos. You can't get them here, which doesn't make sense considering that the two largest minority groups in my neck of the woods are Koreans and Mexicans.

maybe you should eat more idk

you would be alone among family & friends who knew me forty pounds ago in thinking this

I do think that this poll basically boils down to if you know how to fuck up a plate of food so bad that it'll never recover, you vote burrito, and if you're dainty, you vote taco

i mean no one here is a day laborer who must have a burrito to survive the harsh sun and whippings of the master. tacos are a delicious food u can make yourself or purchase, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or party snax, much like the burrito. i just happen to prefer it!

xp now you're just making shit up

When I look at a burrito, I imagine it as a little flour stomach full of food and that after I eat it, my stomach will look just like that, but made of flesh, like a fleshy burrito packed with chewed up food, deep inside of my belly.

do you see what I'm trying to say at all?

Del Seoul?

of course

I mean, it was all right

do you see what I'm trying to say at all?

I have to say that I don't!

well that's too bad

I have fucked up many a plate of tacos, tbrr w/u.

Tacos, because I have a semi-phobia of foods that seem to be hiding something. I'm serious.

tacos are a delicious food u can make yourself or purchase, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or party snax, much like the burrito

lol you basically acknowledge the optative daintiness of the taco here - the taco is a snack! the burrito is only a snack of you're Yokozuna. the burrito is a mighty fucking meal. it feeds you. it is your mom. your mom the burrito.

I do! I always thought a fat burrito looked like some sort of pale internal organ.

xposts

also I know this is ILX so every man jack of us will inevitably declare "AH BUT [POSSIBLY MORE OBSCURE THING X NOT NAMED IN POLL] IS WAY BETTER THAN ANY OF THESE", but I really do believe that huaraches are better than both burritos and tacos

Omg Baez what? no ravioli? no . . . DUMPLINGS!?

I get it but I don't really see how that's supposed to be a negative selling point. Yep, look at that fucking sac of beans and meat and cilantro the size of a statue of the Virgin Mary that I'm about to knock myself up with - sounds like a plan

Oh I wasn't being negative

I really want some gd tacos now. SOMEONE BRING ME SOME TACOS!!!

RE: ENBB

Not kidding. Even now I tread carefully at the notion of soup in any of its murky forms.

I nearly choked on something when I was two - that's how my mom explains it to me whenever we discuss it.

cool burrito username!

Sometimes I order a plate of tacos and it's like comical to myself the ridiculous shit I spend money on, like when I put $2 into a sticker vending machine stocked by MFA students

I get it but I don't really see how that's supposed to be a negative selling point. Yep, look at that fucking sac of beans and meat and cilantro the size of a statue of the Virgin Mary that I'm about to knock myself up with - sounds like a plan

well yeah but unlike with the Double Down or whatever it's not a big ol' death-dealing 2-lb fistful of heart attack - it's all goodness! people keep talking about a single tortilla here like it was some game-ending carb bomb but Jesus fuckin Christ it's one tortilla. (If you have rice in your burrito then you will carb up more but guess what you ain't gotta have rice.) The burrito is life! the taco is what sustains you on your way...on your way to your next burrito

I love food polls so much btw

this thread isn't de-indexed yo

I am just being honest to my own lifeI characterize the typical burrito-eating experience as some nasty shit for garbage people, it's true that it doesn't have to be all bad

got it, sorry

*WHEN I CHARACTERIZE sheesh

well yeah but unlike with the Double Down or whatever it's not a big ol' death-dealing 2-lb fistful of heart attack

heh, only if it's a veggie burrito instead of a proper Mexican Lard Bomb

well I've been veg for a long time so admittedly I'm talking about a different burrito from a lotta ppl here

I am veg too

well, pescavore

Same. I hate that word though.

There is a place here where you can get bbq tofu burritos and it sounds weird but they're so amazingly good.

what other word can I use

fuck that sounds awesome enbb

^^^

x-post Oh sorry! I dont think there is another word. It's not wrong or anything it just bugs me.

i hear what you're saying about the sustaining power of the burrito, but the range of textures and flavors in an amazing taco is just so hard to fuck with. pile up 3 or 4 of the suckers and you're just as ready to tackle the day as if you ate a premie-baby-burrito

burritos are more ergonomic

Also you can't always exactly see what is inside them, there's so much depth and mystery beneath the surface

burritos are tyrannical - you cant just head to the salsa bar and plop shit right into the fray like you can with a taco, not without unfolding the fucker and who wants to do that

you can put salsa on top of the burrito

hungry people

xp

So hungry. :(

i hear what you're saying about the sustaining power of the burrito, but the range of textures and flavors in an amazing taco is just so hard to fuck with. pile up 3 or 4 of the suckers and you're just as ready to tackle the day as if you ate a premie-baby-burrito

that is very true. I also consider the taco more communal. when I am eating a burrito, I have nothing to say to you. I am fucking busy. if we're having tacos, that's a social occasion; eat a taco, sip an agua fresca, shoot the breeze, eat another taco, have some fun. I however shun the company of other human beings and dislike socializing, so the burrito suits my personality better.

but srsly guys LOOK at this, you don't even have to fold it!!!

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z131/legacy_otaku/2008_08_August/08_05_12_ElHuaracheAzteca_006.jpg

You dip the burrito in the salsa! Or just take a bite and then pour some salsa in the open part.

Fuck. That looks delicious.

i don't think the naive form of the 'burritos are just MORE OF A DAMN MEAL' argument is v good, i have over-eaten far more effectively with tacos (i once ate eleven tacos) than with burritos (two and part of a third and then your body just goes come on man it ain't worth it)

i appreciate there are other aspects to the argument

and did i mention that, in an amazing quirk of fate, it happens to be fucking delicious???

xxp

I can't even remember the last time I tried to eat a burrito in front of people I know

burritos are more ergonomic

― Burrito Nimontana (admrl), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:08 PM (2 minutes ago)

gotta lean forward to eat both or wind up wearing the juices, in my experience

I used to have a beard

but how do you eat it?!!? xp to admrl

With silverware?

I just don't get why anyone would hate on burritos the way some of you are doing. You should all be shot IMO

xp with a fork or pick it up with a convenient hand

but that defeats the whole purpose of putting stuff on top of a tortilla type thing!

mad at myself now for only eating 2 tacos earlier

ade what is the most tacos you have eaten at once

I do think that this poll basically boils down to if you know how to fuck up a plate of food so bad that it'll never recover, you vote burrito, and if you're dainty, you vote taco

i did vote taco, but mwahahahahaha dainty is one thing i'm not.

Tacos get all praise for helping me retrain my palate away from the "cilantro problem".

J. Gold:

" the huarache, a flat, concave trough of fried masa the approximate length and shape of a size-12 sandal, mounded with beans and tough, thin shards of grilled steak or chile-red nubs of marinated pork, a layer of shredded lettuce, and strata of grated cheese and Mexican-style cultured cream. If your tastes run that way, you can have your huarache topped with slippery squares of fried pigskin that have been simmered into submission, or with shredded bits of chicken. If you are up to the challenge, you can get it piled high with the cabeza, the rich, gelatinous meat from a cow’s head cooked down into an ultra-concentrated essence of beef with the consistency of refried beans.
...
A huarache is a little too sturdy to attack with the flimsy plastic knife and fork that are provided — this is not a fancy place — and you will probably only be able to saw off a chunk or two before you lose patience, wet the length of the huarache with pungent red sauce from a squeeze bottle, and pick up the hot, dripping beast with your fingers to gobble before it cools into corn-flavored cement."

thomp have you had Mexican food outside of the UK? If not, then I feel really bad for you.

oh man I love cilantro so much

SOMEONE BRING ME SOME TACOS!!!

you know that now i'm singing "somebody bring me some tacos" to the tune of that melissa etheridge song.

enbb i have eaten mexican food in the following cities: london, berlin, new york, dublin

let me tell you, london was not the worst of these. guess which was the worst! hint: it was not berlin or new york.

lol JBR

I am seriously contemplating ordering some delivery right now.

haha

I am gonna get burrito on way home because of this thread

ade what is the most tacos you have eaten at once

― thomp, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

12 but it was taco bell :|

I think I need to lose five pounds though, is it possible to eat a burrito and still do that?

real tacos probably 5 or 6.

good man, ade, good man

whenever I eat burritos I try to eat like a regular member of society but really I feel like Cookie Monster trying to operate a normal-person puppet

why is that bad? are you a conformist

x-post LOL Thomp. I had some OK Mexican in London but the second worst dining experience of my life was at a Mexican restaurant in Leamington Spa. I don't even remember the particulars but I am pretty sure that's because I have PTSD and have blocked it out.

oh you poor thing

It was on my birthday too.

please...don't

I think there is a charity for people like you, you don't have to suffer in silence

can we just not have any mention whatsoever of England in the taco vs. burrito thread

thanks

hahaha

the worst mexican food i've ever had (aside from going to chi-chi's as a kid) was at a no-name burrito place in east hollywood where the meat was gristly and everything tasted and smelled like ammonia. had to throw it out after a few bites.

so many sad stories on this thread. who in the media is even talking about this stuff?

i have had too few burritos in my time, and too few tacos

does ilx have the capacity for sticky/pinned threads? someone should do that for the mexican vs. italian food thread

I just realized I have never had Taco Bell

OMG Chi-Chis. There's a chain on Long Island called Meson Ole! that's pretty awful but even that was like miles ahead of what people in the Midlands think Mexican food is like.

or Jack In The Box, I know that isn't Mexican food but it seems popular

there is good mexican food in london! it took a while of dedicated looking to actually locate some but it exists. i will accept tho that england is not no. 1 country for mexican food, what with how we have the wrong climate and the wrong temperament and the wrong immigrants

leamington spa, though, why would anyone think that was a good idea

Yeah, it wasn't my idea. I can assure you of that.

Admrl Taco Bell is amazing but you can't think of it as Mexican Food. It's its own thing.

OK which Taco Bell dishes would you recommend?

(many xposts) yeah chi-chi's was the absolute nadir of mexican food in america.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIPlTjIHulw&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cII4Ju6dSsA&feature=related

Well as someone who came to TB later in life I will defer that to whomever considers themselves more of an expert. However, you'll be pretty limited given your veg status.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6OmNeFcmU0&NR=1

yes it's getting to be a problem, but I'm 6/7 months in now, don't feel like giving up

xp

6-7 months? Try 17 years!

Basically their beans are all veg so anything with beans and cheese and you're good to go. If you were vegan it would be a lot harder but fuck being vegan imo. I love cheese waaaay too much.

i am looking for pictures of the terrible mexican restaurant i once ate in in york (vegetarian option: a bowl of vaguely fondue-ish cheese, mushed up with white onion and green peppers and rice and maybe some cumin or something but mainly it tasted of cheese) because it had a great painting in which bob marley, garbed as a central american native, was communing with a floating wolf's head. however, all i can find is one of me in a mandatory novelty sombrero

also in york once in a sort of hypoglycaemic i made the ill-advised decision to order nachos, which were a packet of blue flavour doritos microwaved with some chedder, with dipping pots on the side of i. that horrible faux-Thai sweet chili sauce ii. mayonnaise

Oh my!

i mean if we're talking about culinary, music, sartorial, and other aesthetic concerns i probably should have been born and raised in some phony-ass border town that looks like fist full of dollars, serves jambalaya and head-heavy burritos fine tequila and guanabana juice beside a stage of salma hayak lookalikes swayin' to samba and zydeco

x-post Sorta want a print of the Marley painting though.

Yesterday I had 5 tacos for lunch. Costed me $2.50+tax.

I'd like to add this to the list of gtfos:

If you don't f/w lengua tacos, gtfo.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

if burritos win, it's the final proof that the u.s.'s political system in irrecoverably broken

Question - how do you all feel about fajitas? I just made some and they were bomb but my recent participation itt made me wish I had the ingredients needed to turn them into tacos.

i have some emotional issues with fajitas that are the result of several years of my teens and young adulthood spent working as a cook at a couple of sports bars

but they are tasty

fajitas are rad and all the chili's in the world can't ruin them.

^^^^^^^

i could murder a plate of blackened catfish fajitas right now.

Criss-cross!

Strangers in a Pond

fajitas are like burritos ... a tasty example of american cuisine.

lol yes tacos are "authentic" rite m'man

tacos are just better authentic or grown hydroponically in a lab in the netherlands

I think the true political agenda of the taco voter has been exposed, no more to say

i feel like we need a real mexican in here to drop some science.

eat tacos every day

becuz otherwise this is shaping up to be vol. 3426 of "itt native anglophones (plus a few international ringers) debate the authenticity of various foreign cuisines."

also all the chi-chis haters need to gtfo. you got free fried ice cream on your birthday AND the waitstaff was forced to sing an embarrassing and quasi-racist song on your behalf.

fajitas are the vampire weekend of mexican food.

xp still don't understand the physics behind fried ice cream.

where and when else could you get to enjoy both free fried dessert treats AND the spoils of imperialism and late-stage capitalism at the same time?

wow

http://www.friedicecreamband.com/

TACOS FFS

I have spent a ridiculous amount of time over the course of my life thinking about how fried ice cream actually happens. Also about how it became a Mexican chain restaurant thing.

Whether one or the other is more "Mexican" isn't what is being argued here, and shouldn't be.

should we have a tragic Best Of These Airport Mexican Restaurants poll? I have eaten at airport Chi-Chis, Chilis, Burrito Beaches, and Taco Bells as well as a couple of the 6 Mexican restaurants in DFW that miraculously aren't remembered in the Quartet of Sorrow enumerated above

also as a regular visitor to americas various chain sources for refried beans, i can assure you chi-chis is hardly the nadir. not in a world with don pablos.

lol xpost

well this thread has already survived worse places than an authenticity argument, like "how do you eat food" and "a burrito is like my mother's teat" x-post

chevy's is a low point iirc

chili's really doesn't get the hate it deserves

that shit is awful

yeah i really hate chili's

and there's one in LAX. fucking LAX. if it weren't for security you could have some of the best Mexican food in the world delivered - for cheaper than you'll pay at chili's. fuck don't even get me started

i thought fried ice cream was a thai-ish thing -- like those shaved ice desserts with jellies and beans and bits?

I would eat an Awesome Blossom right now.

i mean the food is ok-to-bad i guess but the place itself... i can seriously see myself going on a roid rage or something there, embarrassing everyone and myself.

it's really one of those situations where you drink hard liquor because you have to

Chili's is like the one big family-style sit-down restaurant chain that I often think about fondly. Haven't been to one in years, but it was a "we're going OUT for dinner, kids!" special treat when I was young and, later, a frequent high-school hangout.

Although I just did a search and got depressed at how many times I've mentioned how much I like/am nostalgic for Chili's.

avoid airport chili's as if they were infested by zombies or your childhood memories will be destroyed without mercy or pity

Eating tacos. Right now.

gross

i'm eating dinner in a few hours but i had to be a bastard and stop into the taqueria while i was waiting for the bus, about a half hour ago. two al pastor tacos with jalapeno/tomatillo salsa? probably worth ruining my appetite for.

which taqueria?

hugo's tacos on coldwater and riverside.

http://www.hugostacos.com/

LA is so great (and the Valley)

THE VALLEY IS L.A. (sneaky water rights land grab and all)

ok then

gave me an idea:

Your taco stand/truck/taquería (picture thread)

i love that hugo's calls its menu section "foooooood"

i love tacos and burritos equally! there is a time and a place and an eternal love for both!

TACOS FFS

― carne asada, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 5:00 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

imo you should trust the opinion of someone named 'carne asada' on this matter.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://www.faroutmanindustries.com/stores/store_5409/media/TACO%20JUSTICE_edited-2-3.jpg

Just turned the last shreds of a pot roast into three beautiful tacos btw

http://www.lataco.com/taco/wp-content/uploads/taco_madness_2011.jpg

just made my first homemade corn tortillas
-- they're easy
-- they're good
-- don't have anything to put in them, so I just ate a couple with butter while they were hot

sorry burritos, i saw this thread too late to help you out

gringo party

http://www.stompeez.com/Default.asp?Tcode=PI8/?Tag=google&gclid=CIub6-bo76oCFQGFQAodsH7eNA&bhcp=1

fish tacos rule

― Earthquake in my vagina (Latham Green), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:37 (4 days ago)

YES.

I've eaten flour tortillas with beef or chicken gravy as a filling, and it's surprisingly tasty.

amazed that someone who has problems eating tacos had the coordination necessary to use a computer

is there some technique to eating a taco correctly that prevents the filling from flopping out all over the place?

wait are they not giving you 2 tortillas per taco?

dude that's pretty mean

yeah either you need 2 tortillas or a less greasy filling

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpus3ejuIp1qcnl4ao1_500.jpg

I can't even remember the last time I tried to eat a burrito in front of people I know

― A B C, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:12 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

this is such an elegant summation of the existence of the burrito

I love burritos,I have one a week at least. Could take or leave tacos.

This guy eats too many burritos http://glasgowmegaburrito.blogspot.com/

Never been disappointed by the grub served up at Manchester (UK's) Barburrito, and after demolishing yet another today would stan for them 100%. I suspect they'd garner scorn from any "authentic" mex food types, but could not care less as always super tasty and satisfying imo, and well worth a stop in for any visitors to our fair city; Bank Holiday consisted of a matinee of The Skin I Live In, burrito and a beer as above, and now contemplating the week ahead in a state of languid composure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__U-5bkxQEs&list=PL3CD7F3FA1F967947&index=3&feature=plpp

Burritos are bigger than tacos. Burritos are therefore better than tacos.

one great thing about the recession is that suddenly we have loads of cheap and cheerful burrito places here in Dublin City, giving us the tasty noms.

Burritos are bigger than tacos. Burritos are therefore better than tacos.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, September 5, 2011 8:17 AM (51 minutes ago)

DV, this is a surprising answer from you.

but why? The bigger, the better, surely.

Favoring portion size seems like such an American thing, it just seemed out of character for you.

mmmm. I suppose the other good thing about burritos is that they are self-contained.

i miss LA man

http://losangeles.grubstreet.com/20110107_huarache_560x375.jpg

used to live down the street from this place, some of the greatest mexican food in the entire galaxy

So for everyone who's moved from CA to NYC, where do you go for Mexican food? Especially burritos.

I don't know, but the internet says there's no where that will deliver Mexican food to my house.

i dont go for mexican food in nyc

Well I know what's first on my list when I'm back in the Bay Area in November anyway. Still hoping that something good is in Sunset Park or Ridgewood or something.

tacos otm because you can eat a damn taco as a snack. Burrito (if you're eating a regular sized one) is always a meal.

plus nothing beats a hard corn tortilla or a soft-shell flour tortilla (altho I only like those if they're actually made fresh from actual dough like they used to at Chevy's Fresh Mex, which is p rare).

I'm not an expert on nyc food esp not sunset park or ridgewood but there definitely is good mexican here

anyone who says otherwise is just posing sorry max

los angeles is better than new york

i didnt say there wasnt! i constructed that sentence very carefully

ive had LA-quality street-style tacos in bushwick, spanish harlem, and the south bronx. they cost twice as much as in LA, but you can find them

and you can get some pretty good restaurant mexican all over the place

http://www.yelp.com/biz/tortilleria-nixtamal-corona-2

as good as any tacos I've had in california except for maybe one place

yeah my only problem w/ street tacos here is the price too

but i dont want to have to travel up to bushwick to get my carnitas on u know? i want to walk five blocks to a taco truck and get 3 tacos WITH guac for $3

there was an okay place on franklin ave that i used to get takeout from but they went out of business after like 6 months. & theres another okay place on vanderbilt for when you have a real craving.

the thing that NYC seems to struggle hardest with is chicken tacos, go figure

also they always put too much shit on tacos here

also fuck burritos forever

still it's not like there's some crisis, decent mexican food here is actually easier to find than decent (lots of other stuff)

if this was tacos v chimis, i might have a harder time voting...

sorry we already voted

tacos vs. tortas

i meant voting as in 'picking' between the two.

i like the chimis with the queso and sour and pico de gallo.

still it's not like there's some crisis, decent mexican food here is actually easier to find than decent (lots of other stuff)

― iatee, Monday, September 5, 2011 4:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you think?? ime good mexican is harder to find than basically any other ethnic food in nyc

prob true in parts of brooklyn. but all the random places I've been in manhattan have been fine, and mexican in queens is easy, roosevelt avenue has 30 billion taco trucks you can sample.

I mean you really think it's easier to find good indian?

Good Mexican food hard to come by in Flatbush. Mediocre Mexican food is doable though. But I like burritos and think there are a lot more good tacos in NYC than burritos.

hmmmmmm thats a good question

you should try to find good chinese!

We love our Indian places here btw. The Chinese looks gross though and we don't touch it.

i dont really fuck w/ indian on the regular so ive never had to search a place out. id think itd be as easy to find in queens as mexican tho?

theres good chinese all over the place in nyc!!!! i mean "good" in the sense that i like it? i dont have anyhting to compare it to the way i do w/ mexican

probably i overrate the difficulty of finding good mexican in nyc because a) it was _so easy_ to find world-class mexican food in LA, like, down my street and b) i love it, i love it so much, and i miss it so much

*sheds single tear*

I like some indian places in jackson heights and outsidesubwayland flushing but dan selzer insists that there isn't any good indian left in nyc

but it's def not a 'can find something in every neighborhood'

theres good chinese all over the place in nyc!!!! i mean "good" in the sense that i like it? i dont have anyhting to compare it to the way i do w/ mexican

― max, Monday, September 5, 2011 4:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yah I can appreciate the fact that I have a different measuring stick re: good chinese than pretty much everybody else in nyc who doesn't live in chinatown

I have been meaning to make a thread where I just post pictures of chinese food you can eat in china, maybe some other day the carpet thread is enough

whereas you can prob find edible mexican anywhere in subwayland queens

dayo I am pretty sure there are some places in flushing that would pass your measure

not that I know of them, but I mean there are like 20,000 restaurants there

I've eaten at lots of restaurants in flushing before! most of them were pretty 'meh'

get back to me when you have eaten at literally all of them

but it's def not a 'can find something in every neighborhood'

okay but this isnt true for any ethnic food in nyc except maybe pizza

haha sooo not true for pizza

i mean i go to chinatown to get the "good chinese" im talking about! the bulletproof glass places are fine but theyre not, you know, "good"

man queens is like a different planet

I did take pics when I went to the one good chinese restaurant in all of the US

Chinese food - what do you like?

they closed and moved to philly though and when I went back there was a noticeable downtick in quality OH WELL

it really is

queens pizza is very frustrating

xp

no good pizza! taco trucks on every block!

i may have to visit this "queens"

dan do you have regular/favorite NYC chinese spots

lol I don't think anybody is talking about takeout places w/ bulletproof glass and 5 chicken wings for 2 bucks when they talk about 'good' chinese in NYC - I've been to those places in chinatown too and they are all just 'mediocre'

no max I don't! I don't 'go for Chinese food' in America anymore

in LA we used to go to a place called, literally, "OK Chinese Food"

five dollars for like three days worth of general tsos and some rice

here is the yelp page for the new location of the one chinese restaurant that I liked, if you ever go to philly

http://www.yelp.com/biz/e-mei-restaurant-philadelphia-2

unfortunately you probably won't get anything good unless you go there w/ a chinese person (pro tip: keep a chinese person with you at all times)

We went after 1st Fri Aug 2011. Mei was half full. My wife order a pork dish which she said was fair. She had to ask for rice which they failed to bring with her dinner. It took them 10 minutes to bring it after she asked for it while she sat and stared at her food.

I ordered braised tofu. After 20ins they still did not bring it out. Then they brought out the wrong order. Then another 20 mins and they brought out the wrong order. I told them I didnt want it now and bring the check which took them another 15 mins to process.

We will never go there again and we suggest you dont either.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4887027014_9fb72a2b10_z.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/greatny_noodletown.jpg?w=300&h=225

this is my favorite chinese restaurant in nyc, but like a lot of chinese places here the menu seems kinda hit and miss

like their pork is okay... but their duck dishes are n/l

next time I go to nyc I will go there and render judgment... if unsatisfactory you will pay me in taels

I've never had good chinese style duck in America! I would say 99% of it is done in cantonese style, and in a really lazy way to boot

all i know is the duck in e-foo noodles and the duck w/ chinese chives are two of my favorite things in all of NY

i kind of doubt it "lives up to" irl chinese but

ive had some really good (to me) szechuan food in nyc too, but i am a wuss about hot stuff so i dont get it very often

I've never had good chinese style duck in America! I would say 99% of it is done in cantonese style, and in a really lazy way to boot

I don't know anything about Chinese Chinese food, but the Chinatown Brasserie does a really involved Peking duck and also a pork tenderloin that's smoked for like a week? I don't know if this is "good" but it's painstaking.

ive also had really good peking duck at this spot oriental garden

p sure duck is "the new hot meat" btw... pork is over

if they DIY the duck laurel it might be good! I think the number one indicator is the color of the duck skin - if it's a really dark caramel then it was probably done the cantonese way. real peking duck tends to be more of a golden tan color and has a milder taste

http://www.stnn.cc/chinafin/200907/W020090724406634609813.jpg
http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b459/wyewli811/IMG_8052-2-1.jpg

top is real o.g. peking duck
bottom is cantonese style

one thing that bothers me about peking duck in america is that they use really thick, uh, 'tortillas' and they sub hoisin sauce for the real sauce. the real wrapper for a peking duck should be much thinner than a flour tortilla.

It was kind of dark iirc. I'd never had either version before so I don't remember a lot of detail? But I was surprised it didn't taste more strongly of anything, I do remember that. I thought for something dark and crunchy and slow-cooked, it would have more flavor. Maybe it was a mistake to eat it at the same time as v flavorful dim sum?

you can get the cantonese version at pretty much every second store in chinatown - it's the one they hang in all the windows

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/327956612_bd3bf50e81.jpg

real peking duck isn't supposed to have that much spiced flavor - it's more about the quality of the duck, the tenderness and the fattiness of the skin. you're supposed to add a kind of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_mian_jiang to enhance the flavor, also scallions and/or cucumbers.

whats the matter with cantonese duck!!

with *good* cantonese duck

nothing it's just that american chinese places don't do it very well

it's usually way too oily and heavily spiced

didn't know hr giger opened a chinese restaurant

Hmm dayo, it's possible that it IS the way you like.

The restaurant serves an impressive selection of dim sum, concocted by a Hong Kong-born dim-sum chef named Joe Ng.

I sauteed cabbage, carrots, onion, garlic, ginger into egg roll filling and made egg roll tacos for lunch today.

wait laurel come again?

hong kong cuisine = cantonese cuisine

atlanta has some pretty rockin sichuan c/o crazy ol peter chang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chang_(chef)
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/01/100301fa_fact_trillin

Oh, bother. Well, not my area of expertise.

why the fuck did this thread turn into chinese food discush

this all looks good to me. i've had what i understood to be "authentic" chinese food and it was great, but i'd be a poseur if i tried to be a snob about authentic v. americanized -- i really have no fucking idea what makes the former "better" than the latter.

maybe more depth/diversity of flavors? but i don't insist on that every time i go out to eat; it's just a nice surprise when it's there.

I find it hard to believe that out of the thousands of 1st generation chinese people in chinatown but esp. flushing, sunset park and elmhurst there's not somebody who's making /authentic' chinese food. I mean, lots of these places have clientele that's almost entirely 1st gen + their kids. does american air ruin their tastebuds?

same holds true for mexican and any other food produced and consumed in majority-immigrant neighborhood

like I'm willing to believe it when there's an ingredient they can't get, or the produce is gonna be worse or something

i dont think dayo's arguing that its inauthentic (aside from duck issue)

yeah I mean it wasn't directly aimed at dayo more just the attitude that I encounter, I think we've had this thread tho

where's the good chinese food? it's mostly being made at home

the really good stuff is pretty labor intensive and hence would require higher prices than what a lot of places in immigrant neighborhoods would normally charge (like the place I recommended above, each dish was about $10-20. which I"m sure is what contributed to the place's downfall - but wait, chinese food is supposed to be CHEAP!)

like it's just really hard to do high quality szechuan food at $5 a dish. you need to start with quality meat. pork belly and chicken thighs aren't that cheap and there's a lot of prep work. combine that with a chinese tendency to cut corners wherever possible...

like take DUMPLINGS!, the best DUMPLINGS! are made with hand rolled wrappers made from scratch. the filling takes a long time to mix together, and you need to make each dumpling by hand (it's hard and takes a lot of time!) you can also get pre-made dumpling wrappers from dumpling wrapper factories in chinatowns (I still remember the one we used to go to in philly!) but they invariably taste chemical-ly and have the wrong texture.

chicken thighs are cheap. pork belly, definitely not.

that's an interesting argument and makes sense overall - flushing actually has a fairly sizeable middle class though. as do some other asian-majority neighborhoods in california. are they still too cheap?

dayo otm about "at home" in my experience - home-cooked Chinese food is several orders of magnitude better than the best Chinese restaurant you're likely to find in NYC or elsewhere

california's san gabriel valley is probably where most of the "authentic" chinese food in america is being made these days. again, i don't know that much about chinese food from china, i'm just going by what i've heard.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/travel/03choice.html?pagewanted=all

i mean, aside from "authentic chinese food made in a chinese family's home."

that's an interesting argument and makes sense overall - flushing actually has a fairly sizeable middle class though. as do some other asian-majority neighborhoods in california. are they still too cheap?

― iatee, Monday, September 5, 2011 6:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

well I haven't eaten in chinese restaurants in california so I dunno. but I have a sense that when chinese people go out to eat, they aren't looking to eat more chinese food! there may not be enough of a market to sustain one

san gabriel valley was actually one of the areas I was thinking of w/ the asian middle class, so maybe we're on to something.

i don't know if it's analagous to indian food (i think it's probably easier/cheaper to make indian food at a restaurant than chinese), but i know my parents rarely go out for indian because they know they can make/get better at home, but when they do go out for indian, it had better be cheap because who do these people think they are charging over $10 for rogan josh, or whatever.

my other theory is w/r/t to the kind of Chinese cuisine being produced in the US and who's producing it. I have a friend who works extensively in India and he told me something that I think is very true, ethnic cuisine that gets exported outside of a country is linked invariably with the immigrants who are doing the exporting! so for example, the majority of indian food consumed outside of India is punjabi style, with its very heavy sauces and spiciness etc., whereas there's a whole slew of varying Indian cuisines in India, not all of which is so heavy and spicy! he told me that I should go to southern India where the cuisine is much lighter, and if anybody wants to front me $2000, I'll be happy to!

same w/ China - historically Chinese immigrants have tended to come from Guangdong (Canton) and Fujian. now Cantonese cuisine is great! but it's a very delicate cuisine, dependent upon fresh ingredients and a chef who knows what he's doing in balancing said flavors. it's about subtlety! I don't think it does well when you try to mass-produce it. but that's what a lot of Chinese restaurants in America do! it's not just true for America, either - the shittiest Chinese food I've ever had was in Hong Kong!

otoh there ARE chinese cuisines that do respond well to a low-cost approach, in particular northern Chinese cuisine that relies on strong and bold flavors. unfortunately most of that stuff is still in China! that's changing as Chinese immigrants come from all over China nowadays - but there's still 150 years of entrenched practices in America that they'll have to overcome!

xpost

definitely; apropos of nothing on this thread but interesting anyway, the SGV is also largely republican.

horseshoe otm also - the most successful Chinese restaurants are buffets, sadly

Chinese republicans are definitely a 'thing' and it breaks my heart

i don't know if it's analagous to indian food (i think it's probably easier/cheaper to make indian food at a restaurant than chinese), but i know my parents rarely go out for indian because they know they can make/get better at home, but when they do go out for indian, it had better be cheap because who do these people think they are charging over $10 for rogan josh, or whatever.

that's interesting; i've always wondered what made indian food so expensive, when the dishes usually have very little meat and often have canned/frozen vegetables instead of fresh.

and my parents can certainly afford more expensive indian restaurants but they are basically kashmiri peasants and don't entirely grok restaurant culture, i think

southern indian is amazing, but it's rarer to find those restaurants in the u.s. -- but i found a very good vegetarian dosa place in canoga park recently.

there was a great place in chicago on devon that served indian street food, basically, and was priced to match. my mom would love that place. i wish i could remember what it was called.

judging from bittman's descriptions 3 out of the 5 restaurants on his list are Cantonese style - dim sum is of Cantonese provenance!

Chinese republicans are definitely a 'thing' and it breaks my heart

asians-americans lean dem overall, iirc? but less so than other minorities

the shittiest Chinese food I've ever had was in Hong Kong!

*stifles horribly out-of-date joke about british food*

like check it, Chinese cuisine isn't just dim sum and roast duck and noodles and DUMPLINGS!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine

horseshoe also otm about immigrant mentalities towards eating out, especially w/r/t their own cuisine. they have strong memories of the 'old country' and there's no way they're gonna pay top dollar to eat something they could get for 1/10 the price back home.

yes but whitey wants ethnic food!

david chang has so much to answer for

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060730071324AAIx5mE

burrito vs taco, so much to answer for

horseshoe also otm about immigrant mentalities towards eating out, especially w/r/t their own cuisine. they have strong memories of the 'old country' and there's no way they're gonna pay top dollar to eat something they could get for 1/10 the price back home.

― dayo, Monday, September 5, 2011 7:08 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark

totes, also thrifty immigrant-ness. my mom is so annoying to eat indian food out with for this reason, but she is usually otm. also even restaurants that do punjabi food well tend to only do a mediocre job on the 1-2 kashmiri dishes on their menu.

xxp to jody i like even subpar indian restaurant food tbh, like anything makhani is fine by me, it's so fatty and delicious. it doesn't really bother me that it's frequently inauthentic,

I'm not sayin but I'm sayin, half of momofoku's menu is just stuff airlifted from any run-of-the-mill streetside stall in east asia

i subscribe to lucky peach; the inaugural issue just made me want to eat lots of ramen.

this thread made me very hungry btw, especially for a kind of chinese food i have never even tasted and don't really know anything about.

i think you owe it to ilx to open a restaurant, dayo.

yes pls

I opened an ilx thread instead

thread of pictures of real chinese food

you can charge people to click on it

you may now continue with your discussion of tacos and burritos

i've seen moo shu referred to as "chinese burritos." this seems wrong somehow.

chinese fajita maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzSYsl9sFLk

there is a lot of good cheap indian food in new jersey!

a lot of bad cheap indian food too

yeah, i mean, my parents live in buffalo.

xp

i had some western chinese food here recently, i enjoyed it a great deal http://xianfoods.com/

I thought rich chinese ppl flew out to monterey park to get dinner or w/e

Monterey Park is so awesome and CHEAP. I went to a dim sum place called "Sea World" that had big signs in the dining room that said Sat-Sun $1.88 per dish / Mon-Fri $1.44 - like it was a really important distinction!

dayo...have you been to M+T, Little Pepper, Fu Run etc?

iatee, there's ok indian in Jackson Heights, but nothing as good as what you get in Iselin or other outside of NY places.

It's National Taco Day!

There's still time for tacos ppl.

Celebrate imo.

bought 4 last nite @ taco bell

OK, that counts.

btw those cookies were really good!

did everybody watch that awesome La Choy ad

damn, tacos

I just figured out why sometimes burritos are called burritos and sometimes they're called burros, and why whenever you go somewhere that has burros it's so goddamn big it's like four meals – diminutive, duh.

"Spanish is a language rich in diminutives" – the wikipedia

i've never seen a burro. are they the size of an actual burro?

Everybody knows that a burro lives in a hole in the ground.

my feeling is that some things are better on a taco

- fried fish
- carnitas
- sweetmeats

and that some things are better in a burrito

- other seafoods like crab
- carne asada
- beans

some things are equally good for both but really shine elsewhere (enchiladas and street foods)

- grilled fish
- shredded chicken
- shredded beef

some things are better consumed on a plate with tortillas and fresh toppings, like well-prepared asado and fancy fishes

also i tend to get tacos as a light meal or part of a combo, i get burritos when i'm hungry or i just want to throw everything in one bowl, and i get the second half of the list when i'm at a sit-down restaurant

the taco seems like a ridiculously inefficient method of plate-to-mouth food transportation: shit falls out all over the place, you can't really put much in bc of this

this doesn't happen w/fresh tortillas

this doesn't happen w skillz

the trick is to get the shit to fall into your MOUTH

i apologize for that sentence

i subscribe to lucky peach; the inaugural issue just made me want to eat lots of ramen.

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^ have you seen how much this issue goes for on ebay now

you know the tortilla chips on the side are for scooping up the taco filling that falls out of your mouth

http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-messy-business-of-tacos/

cool arty on the history of 'cos

tacosplay

i thought "cool arty" was your nickname for the author for a sec

Tlayuda>Taco>Empanada>Burrito

have you seen how much this issue goes for on ebay now

yes. i could be tempted to sell mine for the right price.

huarache>tlayuda

http://www.nicegraphics.com/chow/dona_chico/tinga.jpg

holy fuck I'm aggro veg but I can't deny how rad that looks

we call that a "flying saucer" down here

plenty of veg options aero! though i wasn't too big on the huitlacoche (corn fungus). guess there's lard involved in the dough prep though huh.

it depends! a lot of sope etc dough is just masa & baking powder & water iirc. I've made 'em at home with that to decent success although I think there's better kitchen implements to use than the frying pan but I can never quite pull the trigger on buying a tawa or whatever because they're gonna sit in the drawer next to the ravioli maker most of the year/decade.

i bought flour for corn tortillas recently, i couldn't tell how fussy i was being, if it was like buying jam sugar.

i think key to sope success is using a bit of shortening (vegetable ok) and maybe a cast iron skillet?

shortening preferably on griddle (though just a bit to thicken oil like if you were adding butter to cooking oil) and in dough but also just a tiny bit, less than butter in biscuits, you don't want a shortbread texture unless yr shooting for tamales

actually maybe comparable to butter in biscuits

what should I do with like 8 fresh apricots

Save 2-3 for eating fresh, turn 5-6 into an ice cream topping?

trade them for tacos

no ice cream in the house, and even if there were, I am not much of an ice cream person why because apparently I hate america

anyhoo I really like this recipe, so I think I'll do it up with apricots instead of rhubarb/strawberry:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Rhubarb-Strawberry-Pudding-Cake-238103

question: do I have to peel these fuckers god I hope not

xpost oh hell I thought I was on What's Cooking thread; apologies

pack the apricots in a large pickle or mason jar with salt and lemon juice. let stand in a dark place for two hours. remove and place in warm, dry, sunlit area in the sun for 2-3 days. thread hemp twine through. this is your "neckace of shrunken ears" for your amazonian cannibal costume.

^^^winning suggestion!

vietnam vet costume, whatever

^^ winning

if you have something really delicious, like super flavorful marinated meat, you should put that shit in a taco with just a little lime, onion, radish, a little salsa or w/e but not too much of anything. Burritos are big cheesy carby messes for covering up ordinary meat or veggies. They're good but if you want to really taste something you'll taste it better in a taco.

^^ otm

burrito:drunk::taco:stoner

what?

that's why you always get the combo plate huh

Combo plate? What is this, Chi Chi's?

I have been craving veggie burritos in the worst way. A big huge floppy tortilla. Brown rice, say, some tofu or something, corn, black beans, homemade salsa, that sort of thing. What else can you do, kale, sweet potato, avocado, that sort of thing. Hot sauce.

I'm actually thinking of making big huge burritos and then wrapping in tinfoil and freezing.

a sweet potato/kale burrito sounds delicious.

vegan chorizo would go well with that jody

SOYrizo

i love soyrizo.

now my husband has told me that they are they SAME, just folded differently.

I DON'T GET IT

nope

you are p much describing one of these guys, fields of salmon. i never had sweet potato in a burrito before, i guess the potato-rice-starch-overload confuses me.

i had a real bad burrito last night. even the rice was bad. & they rolled it wearing these blue rubber gloves, & it took a while, the whole thing had this unnerving pre-op vibe.