Tequila means a lot to Mexico. The leaves of agave can be used to make paper, while the flowers of agave are very sharp and are said to be used as weapons. Today, the most important function of tequila is to make tequila. Tequila brewed from agave leaves is a specialty of Mexico. Tequila has a high alcohol content, so there will be some spicy and sweet feelings lingering on the tip of your tongue and lingering in your throat. Friends who love to drink may wish to have a try.
Mexican music makes you dance.
When it comes to eating western food, people may patronize restaurants in France, Italy, Germany and Russia, but they don't know much about Mexican food. As we all know, in the eyes of authoritative gourmets in the world today, Mexican cuisine is one of the five major cuisines in the world, and it is as famous as French cuisine, Indian cuisine, Chinese cuisine and Italian cuisine.
When I walked into a Mexican restaurant, I was attracted by the waiter inside. Beautiful girls, wearing wide-brimmed cowboy hats unique to Mexico, wearing shallow plaid shirts with handsome knots at the bottom. The pants that fit me are not loose or tight, and they are leisurely and comfortable. The restaurant plays very authentic Mexican music. With this cheerful rhythm, people can't help but be happy. Of course, you can have a rhythmic Mexican swing dance if you like.
Taste the second hottest food in the world.
The Mexican food in the buffet area is not the most, but it is exquisite. It can be seen that they are carefully selected by chefs before they are introduced to customers in Guangzhou. There are many dishes I have never seen before, but they look colorful and particularly attractive.
According to the restaurant manager, in fact, Mexican food is characterized by rich flavor and bright colors. For example, pickled fish in lime juice is a little-known Mexican food. Local people soak all kinds of fresh seafood in coriander juice and lime juice and pickle them in a natural way. There is also the unique flavor of pipianes, whose sauces are taken from peanuts, pumpkin seeds and peppers. Perhaps you can't imagine that a kind of seasoning Chili sauce named Molly has completely inherited the complicated exotic formula of17th century, and it needs to be mixed with more than 100 raw materials to make its unique taste and attractive dark brown, so it takes a lot of effort to make delicious Molly sauce.
On the other hand, Mexico is the birthplace of pepper. About half of the world's peppers are grown in Mexico, with red, yellow, green and green colors. Mexico is not only the hottest country in the world, but also the second hottest pepper in the world. There are more than 100 kinds of peppers, with different names of fresh and dried peppers, and countless processing methods, including bacon, soup, barbecue, salad, candy, drinks and so on. It's really all-encompassing.
Mexican food is mainly spicy, and mainland residents often use turtles, snakes, turtledoves, squirrels and pheasants as their dishes. Fried cactus and cactus are the most distinctive home-cooked dishes. Mexicans are also famous for drinking. When guests come to the door, they are used to serving wine first. In Mexico City, you can buy specialties from all over Mexico, such as peppers, tequila and seafood.
Tacos and tortillas
Corn has been the main character in Mexican food for hundreds of years. Taco cakes made of corn are also the most basic and distinctive food in Mexico. This is a pancake fried with corn. After frying, it forms a wallet-like, hard and crisp. When eating, customers can add roast chicken strips or beef sauce according to their own preferences, and then add ingredients such as tomatoes, shredded lettuce and tortilla cheese. It looks particularly colorful, just like a work of art, wrapped and put it in your mouth for a bite. Crispy outside and tender inside, fragrant, spicy, sour and sweet inside. Soft and hard, mixed with a lot of flavor. What person? Can't let go? .
There is also a kind of tortilla, which is small in shape and served with various Mexican sauces. Of course, more than 90% of these sauces are made of peppers and tomatoes, and some of them are added with mangoes, which have a natural fragrance.
Spicy beef steak
Most people eat steak in restaurants without any seasoning, sometimes with a little salt at most. However, Mexican steaks are different. You can see that it is pickled with spices such as pepper and salt first. After frying, it tastes good even without pouring juice. It is worth mentioning that people usually think that New Zealand beef is the top grade. In fact, Mexican beef is comparable to New Zealand beef, smooth and tender.
Legume food
Like corn, beans are an important ingredient in the Mexican diet. Mexicans like to eat beans very much, and they have also invented many methods of bean food, such as burning beef with spicy beans and cold green beans.
[Edit this paragraph] Insect-eating country Mexico
In many parts of the world, people have kept the tradition of eating insects. In Mexico, this custom has a history of centuries, because the number and species of Mexican insects are world-famous.
Insects are very prolific and can live in any environment on earth, from permanently frozen areas to arid deserts. In Mexico, insects have become a part of food, because the number and types of insects in Mexico are world-famous, and the nutritional value of insects is extremely high.
How many kinds of insects do Mexicans eat? According to Ramos, an expert on edible insects, there are more than 450 species. What are the edible insects? Chaplin? Locusts, dragonflies, butterflies, caterpillars, mosquitoes and flies, ants, bees, etc. It is worth mentioning that according to different species, eggs, larvae and adults of some insects can be eaten, that is, they can be eaten throughout the development period. Among them, the most famous and most eaten insects include? Chaplin? Locust? Lake mill? Water mosquitoes, agave insects, etc.
In some high-end hotels in Mexico City, people can taste the most representative insects in Mexico? Chaplin? Locust. This kind of locust is expensive, as high as $9 per kilogram, which is higher than the price of beef. In the market in Oaxaca, Mexico, you can often see locusts of different sizes: the big ones are about 2 cm long and the small ones are less than 1 cm. According to consumers, the smaller the taste, the better, and the price of small locusts is the highest, which proves this point. In Oaxaca, Chaplin? Pizza is becoming more and more popular.
? Lake mill? Mosquitoes are insects of Hemiptera. There are more than 10 species of edible mosquitoes in some areas of Mexico, but in terms of taste and nutritional value, the best one lives in tasco? Lake mill? Mosquito. This mosquito is 1.5 cm long, eats the juice of leaves and hides under the trunk, roots of plants and trees or dry leaves on the ground. ? Lake mill? Mosquitoes are highly valued locally, especially in Lake Mill Mountain, a suburb of tasco. Where is the first Monday of 1 1 every year? Lake mill? After the ceremony, a mass was held in the church on the mountain, and the capture activity began.
? Ace Camol? It is the egg of many kinds of ants, especially the eggs of dry land ants. April is the best time for local people to dig ant eggs from underground ant nests every year. People who collect these eggs about the size of rice grains are very skilled. They followed the ants out looking for food, found the location of the nest, and then dug until they found a hole woven by ants with branches, dirt and leaves for laying eggs. Sometimes an ant nest can dig out 1 kg of ant eggs.
The center of agave leaves is a delicious food that people in central Mexico have been eating for centuries. This is an endangered agave white worm, which is extremely expensive. At the root of agave, there is also an edible insect, namely agave red worm. In the semi-arid area of central Mexico, after the first rain every year, these bugs can be seen crawling down from agave and drinking water on the ground. At this time, people began to capture and get a lot of income.