/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>>11259502
Why didn't someone warn me how hot these were?

>>11259502
Is NYC nice? I live in Miami and I'm thinking of moving there.

el rey de los tacos in woodside its like a cafeteria in the back of a grocery/bodega

>>11259541
NYC is awesome but rents are high as fuck. And Miami has way better weather

>>11259546
How do people afford living their then? I mean they can't *all* be living in section 8 housing right?

There's gotta be street vendors, cooks, cleaners etc. Where do they live?

>>11259549
Well there are 400k people living in housing projects. Plus a lot of people have rent stabilization in their apartments, meaning the landlords can only raise their rents a certain amount per year.

Working class immigrants (and hipsters) tend to just share apartments.

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>>11259502
Befriend someone with religious stuff
find her abuela or mom
you could get lucky
t. spic

Now I want menudo, fuck you OP.

Bushwick, huh? I live there too. You should try "Los Hermanos" off of Jefferson St. stop on the L.

It's basically a tortilla factory and a restaurant, amazing food. Cash only.

>>11259502
It used to be that your friends from LA would come to visit and you'd be embarrassed about the Mexican food in NYC. This hasn't been the case for over a decade. We have high end places doing top tier Mexican, but what's more important from street level are the dive places turning out food that's as good as what you'd get in CDMX or Puebla. This is because the earlier wave of Mexican immigrants ended up in the kitchens of Italian or French restaurants, but the newer group (mostly from Puebla it seems) open their own businesses slinging tacos, tortas, cemitas, cholupas and whatnot else. Many of them are even hardcore enough to have the gyro machine for the al pastor. The best are hardcore enough to even make their own tortillas. If Jonathan Gold were still alive even he could find satisfaction here now.

As far as Brooklyn goes I would favor Sunset Park over Bushwick for Mexican. It may as well be Puebla York. But there are some solid, if hipstery options in Bushwick. the following link might be useful:
https://ny.eater.com/2017/3/24/14983750/best-tacos-bushwick-brooklyn

>>11259917
That's literally the one in the OP lol. And where in Bushwick do you live? Do you ever go to the bars there? I've been having fun there lately

>>11259956
Bushwick is super Mexican too, about as much as SP I'd say. But SP has more variety. I would say the most variety is found between Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Corona.

Also there are a ton of non-Poblano Mexicans, Guerrero and Oaxaca are very common too. I almost dated a qt from Guerrero

>>11259963
ROFL I didn't even look at OP pic, fuq me. I live near St. Barbara's church, Central Ave. There are plenty of bars around Bushwick Ave., and a few bootleg dive bars on
Knickerbocker Ave.

>>11259976
I had no idea there were bars on Bushwick Ave, I thought that was a dead street for that kind of stuff.
It looks like most of the neighborhood's bars are either West of Myrtle Ave or near the Halsey stop.
There's a bar on Myrtle I like called Bootleg bar, they have cheap beers and play good music. I went to a place on Wyckoff and Hancock called Luv Story and it was cool, lot's of black qts there.

>>11259963
>>11259976
Oh, just remembered. You should try out Bushwick Taco Company, but they're a bit deep - you'll have to venture out depending on where you live. One of the best burritos I've ever eaten, makes you feel like grandma just hugged you.

>>11259995
Even that deep in Bushwick now there's plenty to do, I don't mind going there. I notice that there doesn't seem to be much Mexican stuff over there though, they seem to open up most of their businesses West of Myrtle.

>>11259994
Yeah, Bushwick Ave. has plenty of bars. I noticed it when I was looking for my apartment in that area. Never thought I'd see someone on /ck/ who lives in Bushwick

I'm not not going to pay through the nose to live near Mexicans. Lmao.

>>11260002
Your loss.

>>11260002
desu not all of them are like that where I live in NYC. Decent, hard-working folk. Neighbors greet each other all the time, and if there's a cookout happening on the front yard and they see you, they won't let you walk away empty handed.

Back to /pol/, cunt.

>>11259998
I don't live in Bushwick, I just hang out there a lot plus a girl I'm friends with lives there.
But it's a popular neighborhood so no surprise if you do find someone.
Are you sure Bushwick Ave has a lot of bars? I can't find any
>>11260002
trailer trash faggot

>>11260009
They're not a problem at all in NYC, that pic is retarded. I never hear anyone complain about Mexicans

>>11260011
I could be buggin about the bars on Bushwick Ave. - the only reason I say that because I remember walking through Bushwick Ave. and noticing a lot of venues, is all. Never explicitly went to any of them.

>>11260009
why front yard? Don't all those little 3-6 family buildings have backyards?

>>11260016
It might have been Myrtle Ave because that street is poppin now. I'm pretty sure Bushwick Ave is mostly residential

>>11260020
Correct, they have backyards, and small front "courtyards" where they park their cars and shit. A lot of them prefer cooking out in the front so they can interact with neighbors and all that.

>>11260009
this, and
>>11260013
this
In NYC Mexicans are Mexibros for the most part. They come here, work hard, basically carry the entire food industry on their backs, raise families and make fucking great neighbors. I have no idea what it's like in the rest of the country, but I love living in Sunset Park. If I were 20 years younger it would be Bushwick.

>>11260030
>Cooking in the front yard.
Trashy people. No wonder the Mexicans were deiven away from the neighborhood I grew up in.
>>11260009
Fat, greasy, smelly, and pig disgusting Mexicanized American food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlRIE2O74E&app=desktop

>>11260040
I am so glad I don't live in your world.

>>11260040
Here's a (You), now shoo, shoo.

>>11260040
pathetic

>>11260040
retard
>>11260030
Sometimes I think only the ground units get access to the backyard, though I'm not sure how that works exactly.

And generally there's no space to park cars even unless it's one of those ugly Fedders Houses that has a front driveway and curb cut

>>11260044
But you live in my country. Get out.

>>11260055
Yeah I know which houses you're talking about exactly. Most of the time everyone in the building shares the backyards, and the ones who have the front driveway keep it neat and clean all the time.

>>11260061
Not really. I'm a New Yorker. You and the rest of this filthy shithole country don't exist to me, except for LA sometimes.

>>11260067
Don't be dismissive of the whole country, it's not one great big Cletusville.

>>11260062
Do you live in a 6 family building?

>Major tech city on the West coast is Cletusville.
Enjoy your tiny apartment and gang-banging immigrants. lmao.

>>11260077
You're clueless, the gang bangers in NYC are mostly black guys. And every big city on the West Coast has Mexicans

>>11260073
Nah, I live in a building with two huge apartments in it. It is a bit different than the other houses in the street, it stands out like a mf

>>11260089
Like a 2 family townhouse then. Is it brick or vinyl?

>>11260093
Brick breh. What's with the specifics? Are you're trying to find where I live through Google Street or something? :^)

>>11260069
>it's not one great big Cletusville.
Unfortunately half of it is.

>>11260097
No, I'm just interested in architecture.
>>11260105
That's more so the rural areas, every big city has something to offer. And many mid sized ones too. Philly is certainly cool, I had a great time there and some delicious authentic Mexican food

>>11260107
>Philly is certainly cool
No doubt. Philly has been getting a lot of immigrant spillover from those who land in NYC and balk at the rent. It's dome a lot for the food there.

>>11260039
This.

Speaking of Sunset Park, what are some good Chinese places there ? I've never really had real Chinese food and I want to try something.

>>11260117
I even read an article about that. Even though Philly isn't as cheap as it once was, it's a hell of a lot more affordable than NYC. Probably a better place for low income immigrants

>>11260123
A lot of the most interesting places are divey Fujian places. Like Hometown Cuisine on 8th Aver. The order there is steamed pork dumplings, fish balls in soup and hand pulled noodles DRY with egg and vegetable. That's a straight off the boat lunch for two for under $15. But the top tier would be Bamboo Garden for dim sum on a weekend. You could just do that a few times over and not get bored.

>>11259541
NYC is nice if you make 6 figures

>>11260157
Or if you make 5 but own your apartment.

>>11259553
This. I know a guy who lived with three other people in a one small bed aprtment until he got a job as a stockbroker. Other working class people commute in.