Eric's usual order - fried beans, tortillas and often guacamole. He loves it because he enjoys the taste and says "It's different every place I go!". Eric's second favourite dish was quesadillas - yummm.
Here's my favourite dish, if you can't tell by my big smile. I'm enjoying a chorizo taco (it's soft shell taco in Mexico, not the hard shell you see in Canada!) - chorizo means sausage. The tacos often come with parsley, onions, lime juice, salsa and cilantro -- which really adds to the taste of the tacos!!
Here's a street taco vendor cooking up meat for tacos at midnight during the day of the dead festivities.
Another street taco vendor in Mexico. This one had lamb's meat available -- demonstrated by the used lamb skulls on this right.
For those of you who wanted a closer look at the lamb skulls, here it is! When people are asked what meat they want for their tacos (ie. chorizo, bistek, etc), they actually asked for "meat from the head/skulls" at this place -- and that's exactly what they get!! No euphemisms here!
Tortilla makers --- we saw machine produced ones like these and also manual tools are widely used to flatten the dough.
In the Yukatan and Quintana Roo states or probably in fancy restaurants across Mexico, you can pay a few dollars for them to sing to you ($2 for a song). We asked for anything but La Bamba, which they played for others.
Chamoyada -- Popular drink made of some powdered cristals of a unique Mexican fruit (Chamoy, I think) mixed with your favourite fruit blend (in this case mango). This drink was much too sweet even for me!
Though you think you only see this in Hollywood -- there are still many places like this that you can buy a nice cold beer in!!
Chocolate -- Available and delicious in Oaxaca. They have several flavours available: Moka (basic blend), Oaxaquena (darker), Amargo (slightly bitter), Suizo (with milk), Canela (cinnamon), Vanilla (self explanatory!).
Grasshoppers! Yes, ladies and gentleman... they are available crispy and lightly flavoured with a touch of chili and lime. And no sir, I didn't have the guts to try them. Perhaps next time I'm there.
Paletes a la Michoacana (Frozen fruit on a stick, a treat from the Michoacan province) were my favourite dessert. My prefered blend was kiwi, which actually had chunks of fruit inside.
