This entry violates my intended goal of focusing on LH examples of this dish, but the shop I was going to hit closed up early, might as well salvage this Friday with an excursion to nearby Highland Park and it’s little food gem known as Tacos Michoacan. (5933 York Blvd. 323.258.0794) Lately the food at Michoacan has been lacking that kick of flavor it once had but this dish was decent, a good basic example. The diced nopalitos were okay though not of the fresh variety, the red tomato/chile sauce did a fine job of enhancing the flavor of the ground up shrimp powder in the tortitas. I should state that all the entries i’ve tried so far seem to have the same sort of shrimp flavor, I figure they all just use the ground up powder we can all get at the market. Some add a bit more or a bit less, but it’s basically the same flavor. The only drawback of this dish were the tortitas; they were so tough and dense I bent a couple of forks trying to cut them up. Nah, not really, but I did break a knife. Ha, JK! But seriously, they are tough, I thinks that means they beat their eggs too long, somebody should report them to the egg board for ovo-abuse. Michoacan also makes a strange but tasty version of Mexican rice (it’s almost like a pilaf) and they have some really good and unique salsas as well.
This dish is not bad and worth a try, just be careful not to break your teeth! EL CHAVO!
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