/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5648871
I'll start from region to region

Yucatan :
Cochinita Pibil tacos

tacos are fucking boring

>>5648871
Looks about right, maybe slightly too heavy a hand with the meat, too light with the cilantro and onions. Also, there are the radishes and lime wedges?

>>5648874
Yucatan :
tacos de trompo aka al pastor

>>5648881
tacos de castacan (fried pork belly)

Nothing like al pastor with pineapple on it.

Puebla :
Tacos arabes (Pita/flour taco with stuffed pork and a chipotle molasses sauce. Sometimes with a side of jocoque )

>>5648887
Puebla :
Tacos de mixiote (steamed lamb in a chile adobo and avocado leaf sauce. sometimes made with pulque).

>>5648891

tacos are the best

>>5648893
Baja California :
Fish tacos (fish in a beer battered coating. linked to tempura from Japanese immigrants in Ensenada)

Are there any good English language books that really go into detail about the different regional cooking styles of Mexico?

Or even one in Spanish?

>>5648897
Baja California :
Quesataco ( queso chicharron usually stuffed with seafood or grilled beef)

>>5648903
Baja california :
Tacos de adobada (aka al pastor)

>>5648908
Baja California :
Birria de res (baja style beef birria in a stew made with peppers cumin ginger and other shit)

>>5648913
Baja :

tacos de camaron enchilado

>>5648923
Sonora :
beef head tacos (cheek , tongue, beef barbacoa

>>5648871
There's a giant plant on top of your tacos OP

>>5648926
Sonora :
asado, machaca, beef chicharron tacos

>>5648931
Sonora :
Carne Asada (the capitol of steak in Mexico . rib eye, and skirt)

>>5648936

>>5648940
DF :
Tacos de guisados(stewed meats)

>>5648943
DF:
Tacos de alambre (fried peppers, beef, bacon, onions, pineapple topped with cheese)

>>5648945

>>5648947
tacos de canasta (steamed tacos usually filled with chorizo and potatos, mole verde, beans and adobo)

>>5648949
DF :
tacos al pastor

>>5648955
DF:
tacos de barbacoa (lamb cooked underground)

Why the fuck is every "taco" thread here just small corn tortillas with some beef, cilantro and some chopped onions? There's usually lime in there too.
I have had many tacos in my life and none have looked like this.

>>5648969
so post some

>>5648969

What are yours like? I grew up on 'texmex' hard shell tacos with ground beef, which I thought were alright until I had some more like these. Chorizo tacos are my go to breakfast now.

>>5648974
>>5648980
pic related is what I think of when I think of "tacos".
It's also the first several results when I google tacos.

>>5648969
>small corn tortillas with some beef, cilantro and some chopped onions?
The Mexican joints in my hood are run by immigrants from Puebla, and this is what their tacos look like.

>tfw I live in frogland
>tfw I can't find tacos

>>5649002
Dude I live in Switzerland and I just found a wonderful Mexican shop that sales all kind of Mexican food. Bought 500g of Tortillas today, I'm sure you'll find something similar not too far away.

>>5649020
*sells
ffs

>>5648969
I've been everywhere in Mexico. The majority here has only eaten in their local taqueria.

>>5648900
http://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/81054/oaxaca-al-gusto-an-infinite

>>5648983

That's what I grew up on in the midwestern US. They're not bad, but they're nothing compared to the other pictures in this thread. Namely because the soft-shelled tacos here use more and varied spices and much fresher ingredients.

Not to mention soft tacos are just so much easier to eat.

>>5649043

Thank you!

>>5648983
You poor, deprived flyover bro. The midwest has to fuck up everything it eats, doesn't it. You know you live in a wasteland when people get excited about a burger soaked in butter.

pepe

B-but dumplings are the greatest food invention ever made

eg. German Maultaschen

I like tacos, but its probably third in terms of GOAT mexican food.

first would be tostadas
second would be aguachiles

>>5648887
>>tacos arabes
pork? sheeeeeeeeet

>>5649522
>second would be aguachiles
>aguachile
the incomplete dish
eat a dick you lousy fuck
when you get the entire list of ingredients to make a ceviche then call it good
aguachile is pure dogshit
no ranking allowed

>>5650349
>incomplete dish
What are you talking about?Aguachile is a different type of ceviche in its own and it has more flavors and ingredients than your standard ceviche

I had tacos just an hour ago for dinner! Simple ghetto tacos. I cooked some diced chicken with some green salsa, made some "pico" out of a half a tomato, some white and green onions that I had (with lime and salt of course) and warmed my corn tortillas with a little oil.
DAMN. So little effort, so much OM NOM

>>5648876
Fuck you, you clearly don't know shit about tacos.
>>5648983
The dry shell, the ground beef, the dry ass un melty cheese. It's so sad that people live like this. I'll pray for you.

>>5650382
>Chicken
please m8. Chicken and tacos is doing it wrong

>>5650388
>implying britbongs or ausfailians know anything about mexican food
and into the trash your opinion goes.

>>5650388
I don't see anything wrong with chicken. I mean it's netlike it's fucking ground beef.

>>5650415
>>5650413
>implying im a britbong.
You can make anything out of tacos. pork belly, beef tongue, pork shoulder, fish, shrimp , skirt steak, lamb, goat basically anything, and you go with the shittiest, bland type of protein you can find.

Stop being a poorfag

>>5650424
I don't like steak tacos. I don't have to stop liking what you don't like. I think chicken is tasty.

>>5650426
>i bet you used chicken breast too
nigga atleast use thighs

>>5650426
don't eat steak tacos then. eat some pork shoulder and braise it with some beer to make some nice shredded pork tacos,or make some fish tacos in a tempura batter, anything but chicken. You must have the taste buds of a 9 yr old

>>5650424
So don't speak like those faggots if you aren't one, then. I think the problem is that you use crappy chicken. Can you not afford anything better than factory farmed mutants? Have you never had real chicken before? I raise my own, and the taste is quite a bit different from what you are used to, I'd wager. Sorry to hear about your financial situation, btw, but projection is unhealthy. if you'd like to better it, i'd suggest /biz/, like any board the noise/signal ratio is high, but solid morsels of advice are to be gleaned if you lurk long enough.

>>5650436
>tempura batter
>fish tacos
My god, that's hilarious. Thanks for the laugh, i needed that.

>>5650436
Why you judging me for what I had on hand. I didn't have any of that other shit. I HAD chicken, I used it, it was delicious as fuck.
Does it get tiring? Hating so much?

>>5650453
No. It's not like he has friends or hobbies to occupy his time.

>>5650441
>>5650443
The thing is chicken tacos are rare, not because they don't belong in a taco (almost anything belongs in a taco), but because its shit. When people go to taquerias they go for tongue, al pastor, carnitas, fuck even tripe , but chicken? Find the best taquerias in your town, and find out what the 2 most popular tacos are. Chances are they won't be chicken.

>LETS GO EAT CHICKEN tacos

said no one ever

Why are you fruit bats acting like you can't season chicken so it tastes fucking amazing? Especially if it's for tacos where you can do an awesome spice mix on shredded chicken, particularly thighs? Ya'll are basically just going, "I can't cook," if chicken is too baffling for you.

>>5650460
D'Leon's is popular, and they sell a shit ton of delicious shredded chicken.

You're coming off as Get-a-load-of-this-Guy who just found out what taquerias are (whether you are or aren't). There are a lot of great chicken in mexican food dishes out there... posole, tamales, enchiladas, mole, etc. are all great things I've had with chicken in and I've barely scratched the surface on enjoying mexican food personally. So shut it. It's not boring unless you make it boring.

>>5650460
I don't know about what they serve in the midwest, but down here the chicken is usually the second best seller. Also, thank you for agreeing with me when I said that tempura batter in a fish taco was hilarious. I was almost worried that you were being serious for a second.

>>5650463
It's one sad, angry little man, anon. No need for plurals.

>>5650465
Well I checked some of the taquerias in your town and I judge them by the variety of tacos and other mexican dishes and they are:

>Super Taco
Most popular items are al pastor and carne asada


>taqueria el rey
pork and tongue

>el chaparro
carne asada and al pastor

>>5650471
what shithole do you live in?

>>5650424
Have you ever had pollo loco? Grilled chicken is a very popular choice of protein for tacos. I've been to mexico and they have these roast chicken shops all over the place. Beef is actually too expensive for the average Mexican to eat all the time.

Pollo Loco is the Mexican KFC. It's mostly a Southwest chain though.

>>5650492
San Luis Opisbo. Certainly not the nicest town, but I'd hardly call it a shithole. I'm sure it has a lot more going for it than whatever food desert it is that you inhabit where one can't even find a decent chicken and tempura batter is acceptable in a fish taco. Are you white and protestant or something?

>>5650532
Except grilled chicken is eaten as the main dish and the tortilla is just there as a side. I know those places and they usually come with a macaroni salad, mexican rice and watery beans, along with tortillas. Good stuff, but they aren't tacos. I've seen all types of specialists in tacos in Mexico , such as birria, al pastor, carne asada, carnitas, barbacoa and the such, but I've yet to stumble one that specializes in "chicken tacos"

>>5650546
>San Luis Opisbo
>Opisbo
into the trash it goes

>>5650553
So, you've never left the resorts, have you?

>>5650560
find me more than of a so called a place in mexico that specializes in "chicken" tacos. And i'm not talking about pollo alas brasas but chicken tacos

>>5650566
Find me a place in mexico that specializes in any one type of meat in tacos first. Again, just because you have only ever had factory farmed chicken that you and others have poorly cooked does not mean that good chicken does not exist.

>>5650583
carne asada tacos over charcoal all over the north of mexico. You keep bringing that up, but as I said before, there are better options. beef/lamb/pork/seafood are better than chicken.

>>5650539
This shit right here, unlimited free salsa bar, grilled chicken, probably the best fast food place if you are looking for something other than a burger.

>>5648983
Flyover as fuck nigga.
Those are ground beef tacos. Also hard shells are shit.
Classic corn tortilla tacos with different meats and toppings are amazing. Fish tacos from the place in my area are god tier.

>>5648874
what's the actual name of that black soup you guys make? if u know what I'm talking about

>>5650598
>x meat is better than y meat

good thing you're not a dumbass or anything

>>5649310
no
pizza

> tfw all the storebought tortilla and taco shells have like a gram of salt per a shell.

how do I make my own

>>5651137
Its called recado negro. made with burnt peppers

>>5651142
Its objectively better.No one goes to Mexico and says "oh wow, I had the best chicken tacos over" because its shit. In a perfect world there wouldn't be chicken in dishes, but its convenient with the pricing.

>>5651536
where can I find a recipe? had it a few times. freaking amazing!

>>5651738
http://www.los-dos.com/recipes/index.php

and here's a good cookbook on that region. fucking solid IMO

http://www.amazon.com/Yucat%C3%A1n-Recipes-Culinary-Expedition-Hemisphere/dp/0292735812

>>5651775
thanks!

>>5651540
>using the word objectively within the realm of the most subjective thing there is pretty much

lol

>>5652337
People buy chicken for the sole purpose of it being cheaper than anything else, not the taste. And its a fact

And someone has still yet to point out of 2-3 taquerias in Mexico that specializes in chicken tacos. It doesn't exist , because chicken is a s hit

i dont get the big spring onion

its not even cooked what purpose does it have there

>>5652362
>People buy chicken for the sole purpose of it being cheaper than anything else, not the taste.
That's a false generalisation. Personally, I prefer chicken over most other meats taste and texture-wise, not because of the price. The only meat I would call better in all aspects is duck.

>>5648871

who burns a whole leek at just tosses it on a plate

is this a garnish in mexico?!

>>5649078

DONT YOU DARE TALK SHIT ABOUT BUTTERBURGERS YOU MOTHERFUCKER

But yeah that taco is pleb.

Chicago here - Hot Dog Taco

>>5648983
I see nothing wrong with those. I would eat the fuck out of them. Hard shells are superior.

>>5652362
I like the taste of chicken and regularly buy it from a local farmer who raises them. You're just a huge faggot.

>>5652362
It's also healthier you fucking turbofaggot. And plenty of people like the taste. I love chicken. It's fucking great, stop telling people what to like.

>>5652403
Except its not mexican food and doesn't belong here

As an Australian in a city without a decent mexican restaurant, i only really know the pleb version of tacos.

this thread has me drooling

>>5648983
This, this right fucking here is why I hate living in the parts of the USA where you can't buy anything good and you have to always make it yourself IF you can find the ingredients for it or grow it in your own garden and mill it yourself. Fuck.

This things are such shit.

>>5649002
Better to not have them than to have this tripe.

so where did hard shell tacos come from?

did americans just decide to do that one day?

that's like replacing spaghetti with potato chips and calling it italian

>>5648881
>tacos de trompo aka al pastor
> aka al pastor
>trompo

You're retarded.

>>5652712
Its the same dish but different name in a different region. Stop being so autistic

>>5652594
>here
Where is that?