Adventures into Mexican Markets, Part 12: Unnamed Roadside Restaurants!
Today's adventure into Mexican markets will be short and sweet, as they sometimes are. It's to show the value in a roadside cart restaurant with no sign, as you never know what you're going to get. Whatever advantages there may be to a vegetarian or vegan diet one thing is for sure, you can't just pull off on the side of the road and eat whatever, which is a shame. As we found during our travels through Mexico, roadside restaurants are some of the best out there. We called the good ones by the way they smelled or by how many trucks were parked nearby, which was always a good indication.
Today I feature food from a roadside restaurant that is a permanent fixture here as far as we are concerned, although they're only open during the day. The menu is hand written and it varies. For example, I ordered enchiladas verde, implying green sauce but I got red. Not that it was a problem, it's just how a lot of restaurants work here. It's based on what's available and I like this.
This particular one is known for serving Indian leaning Mexican, meaning there are curry flavors and purslane in much of the food. The red sauce I had was the same sauce that John's meat was cooked in which was reminiscient of curry. It had a slight cinnamony flavor to it that was interesting.
We got two drinks and two large plates of food for 120 pesos, which is stellar. They're reliable in the sense that they're there every day and great because it's not always the same thing and sometimes there's a lot of value in that. This is just another place shown to us by our best local friend. If you find yourself in Mexico, consider that roadside burger stand or taco cart before a Los Tarascos or something. If there's a line, it's probably worth waiting for! Dive in!
Thanks for reading.
FYI, most salt in Mexico contains fluoride. Worse, it's not required to be listed on the label (sometimes it is). When you see "sal yodada" (iodized) there is a good chance it also contains fluoride. I discovered that after coming here and have since completely stopped buying prepared foods or eating in restaurants. It's been good for my waist line at least.
In case you're not aware, sodium fluoride has been used as pesticide for over 100 years. It causes all kinds of health problems and has no nutritional value.
any benefit to teeth is questionable, even for children.
I am aware, I've mentioned this fact previously and have repeatedly considered writing on the topic. Considering I don't eat out very much and I don't use flouridated salt, its not a huge deal for me to deal with it every once in a while
If you ask nicely Lily will tell you where to find the good salt!
You can find plain sea salt it in the fancy section of most grocery stores
You can find sea salt without iodine nor fluoride at very cheap prices in the roadside stores between Acapulco and Zihuatanejo. You can also find it in the roadside stores between Acapulco and Copala. A 10 kilos sack is about $40 pesos.
You are making me hungry!!! Wow!