Someone should get an email out to the Mexican restaurants. White folks like queso fresco, a lot, once they try it in cube form.

All my life, I’ve lived in Mexican/Chicano neighborhoods, and I grew up with “Mexican-American” food. Everything was fried with tons of melted monterrey jack cheese. I love it. My mom would always tell me that Mexican food wasn’t really like this, but I was a very American kid, and I wasn’t trying to hear that. The more cheese the better!

Even growing up on the border and spending a lot of time in Baja California, I never had much “authentic” Mexican food from different regions. It was always street food. Flautas, tacos, mariscos, etc.

Having such a diverse selection of Mexican food is actually pretty unique to Los Angeles. People from all over Mexico come here bringing their regional cooking styles with them. People living here are lucky for this!

I’m not giving up my tacos dorados, burritos, monterrey jack stuffed chile rellenos and enchiladas any time soon, but I’m looking forward to experiencing other regional stuff.

Its funny several times through the years fellow work colleagues..all caucasian/white have asked me for recommendations on good “mexican restaurants” because im a latino, hispanic, of mexican descent,etc.

I always reply…I dont eat “mexican food” when i go out.

If i want some mex…I get the homemade and more authentic stuff from my relatives…tias, primas, mama,etc.

c’mon now la, are you going to tell me that you’ve never ,ever been to a taqueria? i’m a regular reader of el chavo’s blog. i live up by frisco and after reading some of chavo’s reviews i’m about ready to hop in my car and make the drive down there just to try some of these spots out. and you live in l.a and you only eat “authentic mexican food” at your mama or tia’s house? look i’m just busting your balls a little bit , but my point is some of us gava’s like the real deal too but we don’t have the mama’s or tia’s etc… to cook it for us or to show us how. you guy’s got it easy if you want to make some american food. how hard is it to make some hamburgers? meat loaf? mashed potatoes? but if you don’t know how it’s hard as hell to make some asada ranchero or chili colorado not to mention some of those dishes take all damn day to make, who has time for that anymore except gramma. and as far as the chicano/mexi-amer or ameri-mex resturuants go, hey that’s what they serve us! doesn’t mean we like it, or that’s what we’re asking for. i like some queso fresco just like most people but like cindylu said, that’s what they’re serving. so i can understand why a caucasian/ white co-worker of yours might think that you could recommend a good place. don’t take it personal. obviously they are asking you cause your mexican but the crackers just want something better than taco bell or these sorry excuses for “real mexican food”. obviously california has a large mexican influance, why is it so wrong for us to appreciate the food? you guy’s that know the real deal from this new ameri-mex food should be complaining to the people serving it. tell them to serve the real stuff so we can all enjoy it.