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Are We Eating at the Same Place?
10Sep2009 Filed under: huh? 뭐?, in the news 음식 뉴스, restaurant review 레스토랑 리뷰, site Author: fatmanseoulFatman doesn’t usually take other reviewers to task for their writing. After all, everyone has different taste preferences and perceptions. One man’s meat is another man’s poison. But seriously, Korea Herald . . .
On the Border is authentic Mexican cuisine?!? Are you out of your ever-lovin’ mind???
It isn’t until halfway in the article that the writer mentions that it’s Tex-Mex, not Mexican food. Overpriced, over sauced, and over salted, OtB is about as authentically Mexican as Zorro and Taco Bell. So, now we’re asking readers for imput – where’s the real best place to satisfy your itch for authentic Mexican cuisine? Can it even be had here in Korea? What about other, better Tex-Mex?
- Tags: mexican food, on the border, tex-mex
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Chris in South Korea
September 10th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Don’t take the paper to task – take the writer… Anyway…
Dos Tacos has been my Mexican fix since I arrived a year and a half. That they’re within walking distance of where I live means it’s convenient too
Steve
September 11th, 2009 at 9:20 am
When it first opened I thought it was pretty good, but I went back over the summer and was severely disappointed. Coming from a person that initially LIKED it, it’s really gone downhill.
fatmanseoul
September 11th, 2009 at 9:31 am
The paper printed it, didn’t they? Besides, it’s much kinder to call out an institution than name and shame an individual, don’t you think? Anybody who is really curious can follow the link and read the byline.
Mikey
September 11th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Could be worse…the Hilton has a Mexican month going. flew in a chef from Mexico City and trotted her out for interviews last week. According to all of the papers, this was the place to be for tamales, custom made quesadillas, and tortilla soup. Unfortunately, they were wrong, went on the night the articles came out…no Mexican chef, no tamales, quesadillas premade with only chorizo, no tortilla soup, bill for 55,000/person. To top it off, the food they did have made Pancho’s (or, insert your own least favorite Mexicanish restaurant in Seoul) look like a treat.
ZenKimchi
September 12th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Still, the best Mexican or Tex-Mex food I’ve found in Korea is the ZenKimchi household.
fatmanseoul
September 12th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
We don’t suppose that helps most people very much . . .
Cory Weaver
September 13th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Dos Tacos.
fatmanseoul
September 14th, 2009 at 11:40 am
anybody tried casa loca in yeoido?
Joy
September 21st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
1. Dos Tacos
2. Tomatillos
3. Home made
tom
September 21st, 2009 at 2:27 pm
New reader and interesting scoop on Mexican or Tex-Mex food. My experience here–or for that matter anywhere outside of Mexico or the southwest region of the states–the pickings for real south-of-the-boarder food sparse at best. Therefore, like ZenKimchi, I find my own kitchen the best place to find decent versions of the worlds best cuisine.
However, I do have a problem that can hopefully be solved by your readers. Does anyone out there know where I might find some masa so I can make proper corn tortillas and tamales. Making the stuff is just too hard and time consuming for me. Down here in 청주 I haven’t had any luck but maybe there are sources I don’t know about in Seoul or elsewhere.
I do have a great flower tortilla recipe that doesn’t need shortening (one of many ingredients not available here) if anyone wants.
fatmanseoul
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Lard. That’s what Korea needs more of!
tom
September 25th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
You would expect lard in a land where the number one meat product is pork…
KoreanFoodCrime
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Decent Mexican is very hard to find. There’s a place in Yeoido, Seoul that isn’t too bad (can’t recall the name) but it is very expensive. Making your own lard is easy BTW.
Here’s a good guide:
http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-render-lard.html
fatmanseoul
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
Having actually rendered our own lard before, we feel obliged to mention that while it’s not difficult, it is time consuming and a bit smelly. In all honesty, it’s not something Fatman recommends doing at home on your own for fun. You have to be able to convince the butcher to sell you the right kind of fat, and be willing to sit around in your apartment for a while while it slowly takes on the reek of bubbling fat (not as delicious smelling as one might think.) Fatman thinks that if you are going to render your own lard, you should do it with a large group of friends and divvy up the bounty.
The Bobster
October 6th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
“anybody tried casa loca in yeoido?”
I have, twice. Should be mroe often since they’re close enough I can walk there, but the prices …
It’s worth the money, though. Everyone should try it, I think but for most it couldn’t be an every weekend thing. The spouse and I shared one entree (a plate of enchiladas, I think) and an appetizer, that all except beer and some juice and we dropped about 60K won on the way out.
They don’t use lard, for those who like that. But, nothing comes from a can, and all the produce is organically at a farm owned by the restaurant. Salsa and guacamole made fresh on the premises, of course.
http://www.casaloca.co.kr/storeinfo/yeouido.asp