One of the things I missed most about Los Angeles is the tacos. The true Baja, California style tacos: palm-sized corn tortillas with carne asada, white onion, cilantro, lime, sometimes a little radish, and hot sauce. These tacos are best eaten from a taco truck standing on the street at 3 a.m.
The other day when Brianna and I were walking back from lunch, I noticed a truck selling food. My pulse raced as I became hopeful that Minneapolis finally had a taco truck...we got closer and the menu included "Lobster club sandwich" for $12 and a sausage sandwich for $8. Boo.
And seriously, who would buy a $12 sandwich from a truck? Or, even more disturbing, purchase lobster from a truck? Who are these people? Don't they know how much more popular they would be if they sold asada?
I went back to my incomplete existence as someone who only gets real tacos on my yearly sojourn to Southern California.
Then, lo! Sunday during the baseball game, I saw a Taco Bell commercial for "Cantina Tacos." From what I can tell, they have nothing to do with cantinas, but actually would be better named Taco Truck Tacos. I'm not sure if it's worth trying them, although Taco Bell seems to be making an effort to make them real- corn tortillas, onion, cilantro etc. I bet with a little hot sauce, they might not be half bad.
In the alternative, I should start planning my next trip to L.A. Maybe I'll go get some tacos and do that.
2 comments:
I feel your pain.
You need to come over to my side of town so that we can grab Manana. It is an authentic El Salvadorian restaurant. Even though it's a complete dive (Case in point: The front window has been broken for over a year), the prices are right. At $1.75, their carne asada tacos are THE BEST, and exactly as you've described... even complete with radish. Plus the papusas are amazing!
So... any chance you're free sometime soon?
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