Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Mexican Food in Tokyo!

I've been craving Mexican food for a while now. This past weekend, I went up to Tokyo for a meeting and stayed over at my brother's place. We stopped by a Mexican restaurant before my overnight bus ride back to Kansai. I was SO happy to finally find Mexican food in Japan, and an El Torito at that too, since that's one of my favorites.

They don't have any Mexican food around where I live, but Tokyo is the capital and they have a variety of ethnic food available. Most of the ethnic food over here has been changed in some way to fit Japanese people's taste though, so it doesn't exactly taste like the real thing, but it's close enough.

El Torito wasn't bad at all. When I think Mexican food, I usually think big portions, but the dishes were Japanese portions. The nachos didn't exactly taste like they were supposed to, but what can you expect when the people cooking the food have never tasted real Mexican food.

On my trip down, it started snowing like crazy. I don't know where we were passing through, but it sure was snowing hard. The 10 hour bus ride wasn't all that comfortable, since the woman sitting next to me kept leaning on me. I wished she'd lean towards the window instead of me.
I think maybe I'm getting too old for the grueling overnight bus rides, but since it's the cheapest way, I don't have much of a choice.

2 Comments:

At 4:21 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I went to the El torito down here in Loma Linda once before, and I remember it was pretty good although I must say I've never eaten real mexican food either, just the americanized version. Nice.

SM

 
At 11:20 AM , Blogger myla said...

snow!!! are you serious? it's so warm out here for this time of year. . but snowing for you!. . i can't believe you're going to ebeye!. .come here too!!!. .i can't go right now. . too much on the go. . but you can swing by here :) hee hee. .

 

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