It was my 19th birthday a few days ago and I really wanted to be able to have a dinner. I didn’t get many birthdays of mine celebrated in the past so I wanted to just eat and have fun. It took me days to decide what I wanted to eat and coincidentally the morning of my birthday I swore I did not want Mexican food.
I come from Texas so a lot of Mexican food around here or really anywhere other than Texas or Mexican/Latin countries isn’t really Mexican food. I call the Mexican food here “americanized”. Basically down south every Mexican dish that’s made whether your in a small family restaurant or a big expensive restaurant, everything is made from pure passion. It’s about their culture, it’s what they grew up doing. All the food comes from their heart, soul, and mind. In America, we don’t have the experience or culture to really make it the way it’s meant to be made. For example, Taco Bell. It’s Mexican based food, but is it really Mexican? No. Some actual Mexican restaurants like Totopos, La Padilla, or Tequila are better and good really good, but it’s still “Americanized”. The tortillas aren’t always made by hand, or the rice isn’t right.
A lot of people don’t understand where I come from with Mexican restaurants but I had a real experience with true Mexican food and nothing can beat that. But this dish I had. It reminded me of home back in Texas. It was so good, I couldn’t give one complaint, and that was amazing. #photooftheweek4
