I realize this is a broad question, but I’d be interested in personal anecdotes. Are they even common? (Obviously varies by county and region)
Mexicans restaurants aren’t Europe. Europe is Europe. What a silly question you silly person!
I haven’t found any mexican restaurants in Belgium. Just none. There is a taqueria where I live but it does not scream authentic at all.
As a kid I lived in Thailand and there was an excellent restaurant there with super yummy food - think not sure it was authentic.
Making Mexican food yourself is also tricky as the ingredients (dried chillis) are not easy to find.
Can you get cumin? If so, you can probably make some pretty good tacos.
Only the following 6 ingredients are required:
Tortilla
Ground meat - I recommend beef
Onion
Salt
Minced Garlic or garlic powder
Cumin powder
All other ingredients are optional
Cooking:
Chop enough onion to make a pile 1/2 the size of the meat
Cook the onion over medium heat until it starts to soften
Add a little garlic
Add the meat
Turn up the heat a little
add a little salt
Add a lot of cumin - this should be the dominant flavor
Add a little of any/all optional seasonings for depth of flavor
When the ground meat is done cooking, add more salt to taste. Be careful not to over salt it.
warm the tortillas
Add meat & any/all optional ingredients to the tortillas
Enjoy!
Optional Seasonings:
chili powder optional
A very little bit of MSG optional
Black pepper optional
Onion powder optional recommended
Optional Ingredients:
Chopped Cilantro optional
Chopped Tomato optional recommended
Sour cream optional recommended
Salty shredded cheese optional (Cheddar, Colby, Monterey Jack, Muenster, etc)
Salsa optional (should have tomato chunks and not look like marinara)
Only one I remember was in the Mexico district of the theme park Phantasialand. My parents loved going there. Kid me was a picky eater and would only eat fries there. But later on I started to like it as well.
Couldn’t say anything about authenticity. Never been to Mexico. But when I started to like spicy food I remember being disappointed about the three jalapeños on the menu still just meaning white people spicy.
Apart from Spain, you’d be hard-pressed to find genuine Mexican food in Europe.
This is a really ignorant comment.
Are you saying that nobody has emigrated from south America and opened a restaurant in Europe? Because I can assure you there are hundreds.
They take a bit of finding but the average American tourist is too lazy to look andonly eats at chain restaurants, then pronounces all foreign restaurants bad 😂
Spain is in Europe. Spain has the 3rd highest emigration from Mexico.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/792157/number-emigrants-mexico-country-destination/
Bad, in my experience. There’s not much of it anywhere I’ve been, so there’s not a lot of competition or authenticity. I live in a state with about 10 billion Mexican restaurants, most of which are run by actual Mexicans, though, so my standards might be skewed as far as what a normal amount of Mexican restaurants looks like.
