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Title: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 24, 2018, 03:38:31 PM: Hi all,

So I am going out to lunch with some friends who wanted to go to a Mexican restaurant. I'm not big on Mexican type food, so I rarely eat it. Could you give me ideas on what to order? I'm not a fan of spicy/hot and messy and I try to steer clear of garlic/onion....if that helps. It's also not on a Friday so I can go meat.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: TKGS on July 24, 2018, 03:42:01 PM: Just about anything at Taco Bell! :D
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: JezusDeKoning on July 24, 2018, 04:15:44 PM: Whatever Vermont and all of its two Mexicans have that isn't spicy.

Typically, it's Tex-Mex food that's very spicy because it's more Americanized and influenced by people there. But food from deeper in Mexico is not that at all.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 24, 2018, 04:24:23 PM: Quote from: JezusDeKoning on July 24, 2018, 04:15:44 PM
Whatever Vermont and all of its two Mexicans have that isn't spicy.

Typically, it's Tex-Mex food that's very spicy because it's more Americanized and influenced by people there. But food from deeper in Mexico is not that at all.
:laugh1:
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Capt McQuigg on July 24, 2018, 04:31:34 PM: There is a Mom and Pop Mexican restaurant in Santee, Ca. called Coteja's that is the best in all of San Diego (and that's saying a lot!)

Then there are a few really good Mexican restaurants in Laredo, TX - yummsy!

The best I ever had was in Mazatlan, Mexico and a friend who was born and raised in Mexico was taking me to places I wouldn't be able to find on my one. The best of them all!!!

I hope 2Vermont is close to one of these locations... ;D
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Seraphina on July 24, 2018, 07:11:14 PM: Try for something with chicken and cheese. Stay away from the hot sauce and jalapeño peppers. Most restaurants will adjust the food to your dietary needs.
The best Mexican food I ever ate was some kind of shrimp cooked by Bp. (then, Fr.) Zendejas when he was Prior in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He cooked it and served it with rice. It was spicy, but not so hot that you couldn't taste the flavor. Delicious, authentically Mexican!
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: MaterDominici on July 24, 2018, 07:17:06 PM: Quote from: 2Vermont on July 24, 2018, 03:38:31 PM
I'm not big on Mexican type food, so I rarely eat it.
:o I didn't know that was possible! :P
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I'm eating a taco salad right now. :ready-to-eat:
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Centroamerica on July 24, 2018, 08:10:39 PM: Quote from: MaterDominici on July 24, 2018, 07:17:06 PM
:o I didn't know that was possible! :P
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I'm eating a taco salad right now. :ready-to-eat:
Tex-mex.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: songbird on July 24, 2018, 10:29:43 PM: I like the Poco Pollo. It is a crisp burrito(?) stuffed with chicken some cream cheese, and cheese melted on top. Served with rice, refried beans with cheese melted on top.

Carne Asado is steak strips, ranch beans in a small bowl, which my husband loves, and rice, refried beans with cheese.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 24, 2018, 11:41:02 PM: How about roast chicken.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: JezusDeKoning on July 24, 2018, 11:50:25 PM: Quote from: poche on July 24, 2018, 11:41:02 PM
How about roast chicken.
Roast chicken is the best Mexican food. Tremendous.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Cantarella on July 25, 2018, 12:01:49 AM: A Mexican friend told me that Burritos are not actually Mexican. She said they are an American invention :confused:

Anyway, everytime I go to a Mexican Restaurant (my favorite by far is Azteca Restaurant) I order Carnitas Burritos. Love them!

I also like the Salsa & Chips and the Margaritas :ready-to-eat:
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 25, 2018, 02:39:27 AM: tacos, enchiladas, and for dessert, pastel de tres leches, maybe some chongos.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 25, 2018, 06:04:49 AM: .
A lot depends on what area you're talking about. Are you in Texas or California?
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If you can find an El Pollo Loco restaurant, you won't be disappointed. I think they're only in California so far.............
Their marinade makes for the tastiest chicken anywhere IMHO. I think they use Spanish saffron, which is $200 an ounce.
But for Fridays, they also have a number of shrimp offerings that are very good, too.
And their salsa bar has some of the best Pico de Gallo you'll find. That might be a little spicy for you though.
The avocado-green salsa (looks pale/white green) is not spicy at all, but very delicious.
And don't forget to ask for some CREAMY CILANTRO at the register. You have to ASK for it.
(Creamy cilantro salad dressing is very popular with people who don't like spicy or onion or garlic!)
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If it's some other Mexican place you go to, if you like shrimp, I recommend getting the Shrimp Cocktail, which is not alcoholic.
Some restaurants don't offer the "coktel camarones" like El Pollo Loco doesn't.
And it might not be on the menu, but if you ask for it, they can do it anyway. (Not at EPL - must not have the ingredients)
It's a tall, heavy glass (usually) filled with something like V-8 Juice, cooked shrimp, cilantro, and a few veggies, but it's amazing.
It's usually served with saltine crackers, which are entirely optional. You might be able to get corn chips instead of the saltines.
Otherwise, any fish (or shrimp) cooked "al mojo de ajo" (sautee'd in garlic butter) will be sure to please.
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Just noticed you steer clear of garlic/onion.
So the roast chicken is probably your best bet. I know onion-opposed people who really like the roast chicken.
Also, pico de gallo salsa has diced onion in it.
Actually, the guacamole salsa at EPL also has diced onion.
You might like some of the salsas, but you'll have to ask for which ones are NOT SPICY. They have a few (very few!)
The Mexican restaurants in the USA are very accustomed to having people ask for no spicy food. It's a challenge but they can do it.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 25, 2018, 06:52:59 AM: .
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Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Mega-fin on July 25, 2018, 01:00:43 PM: Mexican food is its own best suggestion. Tacos, burritos, nachos, chimmies, red rice, whatever. It’s all worth your time.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 1st Mansion Tenant on July 25, 2018, 01:18:20 PM: Don't miss an opportunity for Chile Rellenos. :ready-to-eat:

(https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/05/ae/f7/1d/chile-relleno-with-rice.jpg)
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 25, 2018, 02:01:29 PM: Thank you everyone for all of your input!
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Seraphina on July 25, 2018, 03:31:12 PM: Quote from: MaterDominici on July 24, 2018, 07:17:06 PM
:o I didn't know that was possible! :P
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I'm eating a taco salad right now. :ready-to-eat:
Yes, believe it or not, one will find older folks in the northeastern US, mainly, who don't like or ever eat Mexican food. My parents don't eat it. We never ate it growing up. In fact, it wasn't on the culinary radar until maybe the mid to late 1970s when the first Taco Bell arrived. There were no Hispanics in my area until the 1980s, by which time I was grown and gone.
So what DID/DO we eat? I grew up on things like meatloaf, baked chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, codfish cakes, stringbeans, carrots, peas, corn, toss salad, summer and winter squash in season, apples, oranges, bananas, plums, pears. For dessert or snack we had cookies, pound cake, pudding, jello, crackers, potato chips, ice-cream for a rare treat. If not eating the classic 1950s American fare, we sometimes ate foods cooked by or according to our grandmas' recipes, kielbasa, perogies, stuffed peppers, stuffed cabbage, bobka, corned beef, boiled cabbage, potatoes, beef stroganoff, herring, borscht, mushrooms with lima beans, bread pudding, Irish soda bread...Eastern European and a little Irish-American cuisine.
I first tried real Mexican food in the early 1990s when I was in my early 30s. For me, it's an acquired taste, same as I've come to like certain Asian foods since moving to a predominantly Korean and Chinese area when I was in my 40s. I've been able to adapt to foods very different from what I ate during my growing up years, probably because I got adventurous while still young and have never stopped. My parents, however, have eaten the same way their entire lives, and were already too old to adjust by the time all sorts of foods became available to them. They are elderly now, still have fairly good appetites, but only for the foods they've always eaten.
I enjoy a much greater variety of foods, as do my siblings, still, there are some "foreign" foods I simply cannot eat. I not only dislike them, but several are guaranteed to be rejected by my body if I force them down. These include anything with jalapeño, red chilli, Wasabi, raw eel, raw salmon.
So, how was the Mexican meal?
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on July 25, 2018, 08:44:41 PM: I suggest shrimp fajitas (ask no onions).

I enjoy enchiladas, tamales and pico degallo.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 25, 2018, 10:28:50 PM: _{pico de gallo}
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 01:28:43 AM: .
Pico de gallo (PEE-coe deh GUY-yoe) is a very chunky salsa with very watery liquid. It's not like most salsas, which have a thick liquid like slightly thinned out tomato paste. While a good portion of the chunks are diced onions, I have known people who won't have anything to do with onions who like pico de gallo! That's surprising. The flavor of this salsa does not seem like the flavor of onions. So just because you don't like onions, you might try a little pico de gallo, otherwise you might miss out on a unique experience.
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Many salsas are big on roasted tomatillos, the principal ingredient for green salsa, salsa verde. But pico de gallo doesn't include tomatillo.
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Other ingredients in pico de gallo include cilantro, diced Serrano chilli peppers, lime juice, diced tomatoes. Most people try to eat just the chunky part and reject the watery liquid, but I actually prefer the liquid, which is a quite flavorful, intense juice all of its own, probably loaded with Vitamin C. It does not taste like onions. It seems to be an ingredient for coctel camaron, which is not cheap stuff at $1 per ounce.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 01:42:34 AM: Quote from: 2Vermont on July 25, 2018, 02:01:29 PM
Thank you everyone for all of your input!
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Didn't expect two pages of replies?
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 01:53:29 AM: Quote from: Seraphina on July 25, 2018, 03:31:12 PM

So, how was the Mexican meal?
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That's right! Now we need a report on what you had, 2Vermont, and what your friends ordered! How did you like it?
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Last Tradhican on July 26, 2018, 12:30:36 PM: Armadillo tacos.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 26, 2018, 12:43:53 PM: Quote from: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 01:53:29 AM
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That's right! Now we need a report on what you had, 2Vermont, and what your friends ordered! How did you like it?
We aren't going until Monday, but I will report back. :)
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 07:06:34 PM: .
Machaca (shredded beef or pork) or chimichangas (machaca burrito deep fried) are something to consider.
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Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 07:10:52 PM: .
The best tasting chicken comes with a variety of side dishes at El Pollo Loco

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Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: St Ignatius on July 26, 2018, 10:12:17 PM: Quote from: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 07:10:52 PM
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The best tasting chicken comes with a variety of side dishes at El Pollo Loco

(https://s17-us2.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https:%2F%2Fwww.ocregister.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2Fel-pollo.jpg%3Fw%3D467&sp=61c1a6135f347d14e9dd834d6027d619)
My mom is from the State of Jalisco, and she never fixed us kids crazy chicken dinners that looked anything like this picture... l think I missed out some where! :ready-to-eat:
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Nadir on July 26, 2018, 10:21:23 PM: I know very little about Mexican food but when I look at the images here I have a feeling that it is not all that genuine but all VERY American! Like pineapple on Pizza!
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: JezusDeKoning on July 26, 2018, 10:31:16 PM: Quote from: Nadir on July 26, 2018, 10:21:23 PM
I know very little about Mexican food but when I look at the images here I have a feeling that it is not all that genuine but all VERY American! Like pineapple on Pizza!
Sadly, a lot of it is Americanized. If you look hard in the right places, you can find the real deal. It is not as bad as pineapple pizza, which would get a pizzeria burned down if you tried it in Italy, but it is bad.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 26, 2018, 10:42:27 PM: For Friday how about fish tacos.
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Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 11:17:09 PM: Quote from: Nadir on July 26, 2018, 10:21:23 PM
I know very little about Mexican food but when I look at the images here I have a feeling that it is not all that genuine but all VERY American! Like pineapple on Pizza!
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That is true of Taco Bell but not El Pollo Loco. (Translated the name refers to a chicken running around with its head off, something any farmer knows about.)
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The marinade EPL uses is a family traditional recipe straight out of Mexico. The chicken is roasted over open flame, which you can see them doing when you walk in the front door. They're not hiding anything but the ingredients and spices. Not even the managers know the proportions and contents of the spice packets they get delivered. EPL roast chicken is Mexican to the bone.
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As for the side dishes, they're fairly Mexican, however, slight modifications have crept in to appeal to the American customers. You can hardly get more Mexican than Serrano chili peppers, Haas avocados, cilantro, iceberg lettuce, pinto beans, corn tortillas, steamed rice, horchata and churros for dessert. The American influence is more in the presentation, like the circular fold burrito and tall tostada shells. Their food is essentially the same as what you find in Mexico, with a little nuance of American appearance, but the ingredients are all Mexican.
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At the salsa bar EPL has whole, raw Serrano chilis. It is a very Mexican tradition to nibble on one chili while having a meal. Nothing American at all about it. Most Americans wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole! But if you give them a try, a little at a time, perhaps after a year or two, you will find they add a whole new dimension to the flavor of the food. They are an essential ingredient to the best guacamole, and they make pico de gallo what it is. I think they're hotter than jalapenos, but that's not a widely held opinion. They definitely have a different flavor than jalapenos -- similar but not the same. Different chilis are used for different sauces and effects.
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Even Taco Bell relies on a particular blend of chili peppers for their signature Taco Bell taste. The flagship workhorse of Taco Bell, their crunchy taco, is an American adaptation of Mexican carne asada -- uses the same spices but ground hamburger instead of chopped steak. So that's really an Americanized food item because you can't find it in Mexico, nor at El Pollo Loco! All the EPL tacos have soft shells made of corn tortillas that are NOT deep fried (like Taco Bell's are).
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 26, 2018, 11:40:03 PM: Quote from: JezusDeKoning on July 26, 2018, 10:31:16 PM
Sadly, a lot of it is Americanized. If you look hard in the right places, you can find the real deal. It is not as bad as pineapple pizza, which would get a pizzeria burned down if you tried it in Italy, but it is bad.
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Americanized Mexican food has less, not more.
The American taste asks for less spicy, so Americanized Mexican food has less spiciness.
When Mexican food is Americanized something essential is REMOVED and very little is added.
Deep fried taco shells and deep fried wheat flour tostada shells are not Mexican, neither are they essential.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 28, 2018, 10:57:41 PM: Did anyone suggest pastel de tres leches for dessert?
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Jovita on July 29, 2018, 09:16:07 AM: A good Mexican restaurant will have soup. I love their chicken tortilla soup. However, it's made differently everywhere I have gone. Sometimes its chicken soup with tortilla noodles. That and a side of rice and salad should be fine.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 29, 2018, 09:32:50 AM: Quote from: Jovita on July 29, 2018, 09:16:07 AM
A good Mexican restaurant will have soup. I love their chicken tortilla soup. However, it's made differently everywhere I have gone. Sometimes its chicken soup with tortilla noodles. That and a side of rice and salad should be fine.
I'm thinking a Mexican Chop Salad with chicken. I want to watch the fat intake as well.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 29, 2018, 09:45:47 AM: Quote from: JezusDeKoning on July 26, 2018, 10:31:16 PM
Sadly, a lot of it is Americanized. If you look hard in the right places, you can find the real deal. It is not as bad as pineapple pizza, which would get a pizzeria burned down if you tried it in Italy, but it is bad.
:laugh1: I love pineapple on my pizza.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Nadir on July 29, 2018, 05:02:44 PM: Quote from: 2Vermont on July 29, 2018, 09:45:47 AM
:laugh1: I love pineapple on my pizza.
and she's not a fan of spicy/hot and messy and she tries to steer clear of garlic/onion and she wants to watch the fat intake as well.

:facepalm:
:pray: Make sure you say Grace before the meal!

Then go ahead and enjoy. :cheers: :jumping2:
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: AlligatorDicax on July 29, 2018, 05:05:41 PM: Quote from: 2Vermont on July 24, 2018, 03:38:31 PM

I'm not big on Mexican type food, so I rarely eat it. [....]

Me neither! The unavoidably overcooked ground beef in United-Statesian recipes might as well be replaced by the product of damp brown shirt-cardboard fed thro' a meat-grinder. Bleccch! And I'm no fan of any cuisine that's based on drowning otherwise good food in whole cans-full of tomato sauce.[×]

Quote from: 2Vermont on July 24, 2018, 03:38:31 PM

I'm not a fan of [...] messy [....]

I agree. Another reason why a Mexican restaurant would never be my own choice. Especially not in circuмstances that require me to be wearing a necktie or be socially presentable after such a meal.

I would make an exception to my aversion to sit-down meal messiness for something like a Louisiana crawfish boil or shrimp boil, but those are not merely lunch-hour-away-from-work meals.

Quote from: 2Vermont on July 24, 2018, 03:38:31 PM

I'm not a fan of spicy / hot [...] and I try to steer clear of garlic / onion....

Sufferin' succotash! No garlic nor onion nor hot peppers!? You're disqualifying escabeche and even dishes sauteed in butter and wine, e.g., nonMexican shrimp scampi (which typically has garlic and onions), nobly intended as an alternative to having them drowned in thickened tomato sauce.

Your criteria reject even bland mashed potatoes being enhanced (i.e., given any flavor at all beyond homogenized starch) with garlic and onion (readers shouldn't even think about mixing in any diced mildly-hot green peppers)!?

So you might look for one of the widely known arroz dishes, i.e., rice, customarily yellow [$], either con camarones, i.e., with shrimp, or con pollo, i.e., with chicken, served most commonly (I think) as a chicken quarter on top of the rice. Neither dish has a tradition of spiciness; they're broadly Iberian, not Latin-American, per se. But if there's also an arroz con chorizo, you'd want to skip that one.

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Note ×: [Hades], yes! My objection applies--quite strongly--to southern Eye-talian (d.b.a. Neapolitan) cuisine. Americanized "pizza" ain't at all the same thing.

Note $: Industrially produced white rice colored during cooking. Originally via saffron, but not any more: metallic gold is reportedly cheaper per ounce than saffron nowadays. Expect (healthful) turmeric to be used instead.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 29, 2018, 05:30:55 PM: Quote from: Nadir on July 29, 2018, 05:02:44 PM
and she's not a fan of spicy/hot and messy and she tries to steer clear of garlic/onion and she wants to watch the fat intake as well.

:facepalm:
:pray: Make sure you say Grace before the meal!

Then go ahead and enjoy. :cheers: :jumping2:
Yeah, I know... I'm such a loser. :laugh2:
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Maria Regina on July 29, 2018, 06:25:22 PM: Quote from: Nadir on July 29, 2018, 05:02:44 PM
and she's not a fan of spicy/hot and messy and she tries to steer clear of garlic/onion and she wants to watch the fat intake as well.

:facepalm:
:pray: Make sure you say Grace before the meal!

Then go ahead and enjoy. :cheers: :jumping2:
I have learned to add real cream, real butter, real cheese, and cream cheese to any hot chili dishes. Oil and dairy help to calm the burning sensation. Water makes the experience worse.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 29, 2018, 11:06:11 PM: ceviche?
Title: Ceviche Health Risks/Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: AlligatorDicax on July 30, 2018, 05:00:43 PM: Quote from: poche on July 29, 2018, 11:06:11 PM

ceviche?

At least a few words of explanation are called for, especially whenever suggesting a dish with a foreign name, don't you think?

• Ceviche is distinctive for being "cooked" only, in effect, by chemical action caused by its acidic marinade/pickling; it's never cooked by heat (not even briefly). Alas, the heatless preparation peculiar to this dish exposes humans to genuine health risks.

I've originated a new topic "Ceviche and escabeche" for discussing those risks, in the CathInfo subforum in which it plainly belongs: "Health and Nutrition". <https://www.cathinfo.com/health-and-nutrition/ceviche-and-escabeche/ (https://www.cathinfo.com/health-and-nutrition/ceviche-and-escabeche/)> (q.v.).

Of course, regardless of whatever you order, you're vulnerable to any improper handling in the chain of custody from the raw suppliers to the restaurant, and from any unsanitary habits of restaurant staff. The latter, I've read somewhere, can be rather reliably judged from the condition of the rest-rooms.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 30, 2018, 10:33:04 PM: tostados
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 30, 2018, 11:31:32 PM: Quote from: Maria Regina on July 29, 2018, 06:25:22 PM
I have learned to add real cream, real butter, real cheese, and cream cheese to any hot chili dishes. Oil and dairy help to calm the burning sensation. Water makes the experience worse.
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I think you're right about cream/dairy. Also a little sugar helps. So the best antidote must be ice cream.
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Water makes the burn increase, true.
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In the end, it takes TIME. Nibbling on some ice cream can soothe the burn, but the moment you stop having ice cream it comes back with a vengeance. And the ice cream seems to prolong the time the spiciness burn keeps trying to return. Eventually you have to ease off on the ice cream and just let the burn have its way. It will swell hotter on your tongue for a moment, but then settles down.
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After a year or two of practice you don't have any more discomfort, and the spiciness burn is very much reduced.
There comes the day when spiciness turns into an appetizer, whereas it used to be a turn-off. That comes with maturity.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Neil Obstat on July 31, 2018, 08:01:29 AM: Quote from: 2Vermont on July 29, 2018, 05:30:55 PM
Yeah, I know... I'm such a loser. :laugh2:
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So how was lunch? (You can't be a "loser" if you're having lunch with your fan club!)
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: Ladislaus on July 31, 2018, 09:08:06 AM: Quote from: 1st Mansion Tenant on July 25, 2018, 01:18:20 PM
Don't miss an opportunity for Chile Rellenos. :ready-to-eat:

Hands down my favorite Mexican dish.
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: 2Vermont on July 31, 2018, 09:29:54 AM: Quote from: Neil Obstat on July 31, 2018, 08:01:29 AM
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So how was lunch? (You can't be a "loser" if you're having lunch with your fan club!)
Had a great time. I did go boring, however: Mexican chop salad. But I loved it!
Title: Re: Suggestions for Mexican Food?
Post by: poche on July 31, 2018, 10:33:58 PM: Quote from: Jovita on July 29, 2018, 09:16:07 AM
A good Mexican restaurant will have soup. I love their chicken tortilla soup. However, it's made differently everywhere I have gone. Sometimes its chicken soup with tortilla noodles. That and a side of rice and salad should be fine.
Sopa de pollo?