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LA definitely has so many mexicans, the fresh ones that have not been here for generation after generation that the restaurants are more like mexico and less a fusion or tex mex invention as you would find in the lone star state. and before yall try to let me have it, yes texas also has a lot of fresh mexicans, but the mexican community goes back further that they have their own food style. cali mex does not really exist. so a comparison is really mute. but of all the restaurants that i have ate in TX very few had anything special. all spicy tomato sauce and pepper. i will take a cemita from a poblano lunch truck off central any day.
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Just today I had a chicken enchilada with sour cream sauce, a cheese enchilada with chili con carne which I requested instead of ranchera sauce and a beef enchilada with verde sauce... all exceptional and fairly mild.. all what others would say is Tex Mex... though I call it Mexican Food, the restaurant is owned by a mexican family with servers and cooks who don't know how to speak english well.
My daughter's school where we live is filled with children who don't know english.. she goes to school with several kids who are there and then she is told they went back to Mexico. One child got upset with another child for revealing he was illegal ( his friend hispanic) and he was afraid that he would get in trouble and sent away..
As for the restaurants, I see trucks with Tortas and Pupusa written on the side... food is cooked by people who are mexican decent or from there orginally.. I grew up eating at restaurant on the coast of Texas where a goat was on a spit roasting over coals, usally for a celebration. We got franks and pintos in a cilatro chicken broth before the meal.. as far as my moms town, 2 mexican restaruants sit side by side and 2 food trucks sit on opposites corners serving up good mexican food with real cane sugar coca cola... Around Christmas, the trucks aren't there due to they go home during the holidays to Mexico to see family...
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and the cheese isn't even real cheese - it's a semi-liquid cheese sauce. Bleh
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The good queso dip will be white, not yellow.. the yellow, it taste like cheez whiz imo. Now I love cheez whiz but do prefer white and most aren't serving it white . I like to find one on my side of town that does.. It just depends on the restaurant. Where I live, there are some great places to eat that serve Mexican and some not so good.... it varies like I am sure it varies in California.. which btw will be tasting baja cuisine in March... visiting family in San Diego.