From a Pulqueria serving fermented Maguey Sap (Pulque) and Morcilla (Blood Sausage) Tacos to Pancita with Beef Tripe, Goat Birria and Pork Skins for Breakfast, Mexico City has endless unusual, rare and sometimes bizarre foods. Follow our gringo taste buds around as we try these delicious finds.
--- Episode Field Notes ---
Mexico City 5:45am
The slumbering bear awaking, soon darkness and calm will give way to a hornet's nest of activity, commerce and humanity.
The flashing lights of police cars flood the mostly darkened streets. Breakfast stalls are already thriving, behind closed doors, on street carts, a city is having its first meal, on the precipice of an explosion of energy and activity.
In Fonda Margarita, the pots are bubbling the tables creaking under plates of beans and stewed pork bones, green and red chile sauces. Fodder before a Friday push. I had a bowl of Chicharrones aka Pork Skins stewed in an electric, acidy salsa verde along with THE best refried beans I’ve had in my life. Not the canned beige plaster you can find in the supermarket, but simmered, dark, mysterious frijoles stirred tirelessly over wood coal to impart a smoky richness. Gut punch? Yes. Heartwarming? Oh yes. In the same stratosphere as 99.9999% of breakfast served in North America? No friends, this is worth the flight alone.
There’s something so beautiful about someone taking the time to get up at an ungodly hour and slow cook something that you eat fast at 6 am before rushing off into the stresses of the day. That’s a humanitarian in action, a person sacrificing sleep so that others can get their lazy ass off on the right foot. Breakfast cooks who care are in a league of their own.
Episode Intel:
La Paloma Azul
Av. Popocatépetl 154d, Portales Nte, Benito Juárez, 03300 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Reggie Drank: Pulque (an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey plant).
Tacos y Huaraches Don Luis
Reggie Ate: Morcilla (Blood Sausage) Tacos
Fonda Margarita
Adolfo Prieto 1364 B, Tlacoquemecatl del Valle, Benito Juárez, 03100 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Reggie Ate: Beans and Chicharron en Salsa Verde (Pork Skins)
Mercado de San Juan
2ᵃ Calle de Ernesto Pugibet 21, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Birria Estilo Jalisco
Colima 171, Roma Nte., 06700 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico (Corner of Colima and Orizaba)
Reggie Ate: Birria de Chivo Estilo Jalisco (Mexican Braised Goat)
Tacos De Canasta El Flaco
5 de Febrero 15-19, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Reggie Ate: Tacos de Canasta (tacos steamed inside a basket) - fillings of potato and chicharrón (fried pork skins)
El Muro (The Wall) Rock Climbing
Av. Patriotismo 229, San Pedro de los Pinos, Benito Juárez, 03800 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Mercado de La Merced
Reggie Ate: Pancita (Mondongo or Menudo) aka Beef Stomach or Tripe Soup
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