I have not found any good Mexican restaurants here in South Korea yet. May have to celebrate when we get home next week.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
Tatortodd, what's your opinion of Torchy's? It seems decent for a chain taco joint.

I ate there twice this week including last night.

Is it traditional Mexican? No

Are their tacos delicious? Yes

I've tried pretty much every taco on the menu except the fake meat one and the vegetarian one. Generally, I get a half order of queso, their taco of the month and rotate one of these:

trailer park (fried chicken)

(secret menu) green chili pork missionary style (it's better than their regular green chili pork)

chicken fajita

Mr Orange (blackened salmon)

(secret menu) Ace of Spades (jalapeno cheddar sausage, brisket, and fried egg)

Give me a Trailer Park, but make it trashy (minus veggies, add queso).

My lovely wife and I ate soft tacos at Taco Bueno in Gainesville Texas today.

Homemade Tamales tonight and black beans.

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Sorry, Texas BBQ tonight

We will BBQ tomorrow.

I had lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant, and then later I made a tequila old fashioned for the first time. It was delicious!

Had my own Cinco De Mayo celebration. Kids and grand kids came over. Fired up the margarita machine and made fajitas, quesadillas with chicken and chorizo, esquites (Mexican street corn) off the cob, fire roasted salsa in the molcajete, and guac.

More Americans celebrate Cinco De Mayo than Mexicans according to most of what is written about the holiday. I think because so many Americans love Mexican cuisine and it's a good excuse to put the Mexican feed bag on. Besides it's my birthday!

Half order deluxe Campechanas from the local joint

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Puzzled. “Campechanas” was an unknown to me so I googled and found several descriptions saying it was a Mexican seafood cocktail. E.g.:
https://rancheritarenton.com/product/campechana/

I've always thought of campechena as the Mexican version of seafood/shrimp cocktail. IMO, the best appetizer in all of Houston is a shrimp & crab Mexican cocktail at Goode Company.

A little Googling lead to finding it's also the name for a Mexican puff pastry.

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Half order deluxe Campechanas from the local joint

I had to look that one up.

"campechana is a traditional dish in Mexican cuisine. It consists of chopped octopus that is slowly boiled in water with its ink, vinegar, onion, garlic.

I grew up in San Jose CA. The Bay Area has a huge Hispanic population and consequently the ability obtain amazing food was legit. Here in the Florida panhandle we have Mexican restaurants buy they are meh. So yes it’s a lame holiday especially in America to celebrate, but back in San Jose, when coworkers of Mexican heritage in the office organize and want to bring in aluminum trays of all kinds of home cooked goodness and the company is ok with people folks chugging modelo and tequila shots and calling the afternoon off, who am I to say no.

I was right about Cinco de Mayo specials still being available at Carmen’s today (Saturday, May 6). Pork Chile Colorado! So good, so tender.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I go to Carmen’s Mexican Foods here in San Diego every Saturday morning. Saturday will be May 6, but there’s no doubt that Cinco de Mayo specials will still be on offer.

Looking forward to that! Maybe even tamales.


San Diego?..San Diego is "El Indio restaurant" all the way every day!!

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Originally posted by arfmel:

Half order deluxe Campechanas from the local joint

I had to look that one up.

"campechana is a traditional dish in Mexican cuisine. It consists of chopped octopus that is slowly boiled in water with its ink, vinegar, onion, garlic.

Well, I’ll have to tell Tommy Ramos his deluxe campechanas are wrong. (like he’s going to care) He makes them with tortilla chips, ground meat, refried beans, cheese, guacamole, lettuce and tomato. Fresh jalapeños, too, if you want. I’m pretty sure his recipe would handily outsell the octopus version, here.

Mr. Ramos' recipe sounds way better.