North America,  Mexico,  Travel

Mexico City (2)

April 8, 2021 /

Went to a local market in the morning for quesadilla and pambazo. Quesadilla is completely different from the flatbread baked with a pile of cheese in the United States. Quesadilla in Mexico City generally does not add cheese, and it looks more like empanada. The owner of the sofa in Guadalajara told me before I came here two days ago: how surprised he was when he came to Mexico City to eat quesadilla here for the first time and found that there was no cheese, because queso means cheese, and there is no queso How can it be called quesadilla? ! He looked contemptuous when he told me. It seems that regional discrimination in the same country can be found everywhere, haha. I ordered one with cheese (on top with butter lettuce) and one without. Pambazo is a sandwich unique to Mexico City. The bread is hard and chewy, and then soaked in guajillo salsa chili sauce and fried, so it is red. It is usually filled with beans, mashed potatoes and pepperoni.

Then walk to Chapultepec Park. Passing by a small shoe repair shop on the street, I stopped after walking more than ten meters, thinking whether to repair the pair of running shoes I was wearing. The front glue is a little bit open. It must be much cheaper to repair here than in the United States. No, and I couldn't find a shoe repair place in the US, so I went back and got it repaired, it was only $1, and it was done in 15 minutes. Chapultepec Park is very big. After shopping around for food, I went to another tacos de guisado in the first season of the food documentary Taco Chronicles. It is another very small shop with only two or three seats inside. When you go in, you will see a familiar grandfather. He is in charge of the shop by himself, cooking and serving. Many locals buy and eat outside. I ordered two tacos, one with beef tongue and one with chicharrón fried pork belly. The portion is huge, luckily I only ordered two. The old man was very happy when he knew that I came to eat his tacos while watching a documentary, and he started flipping through the photos to show me the photos of him with guests from various countries.

After eating to my heart's content, I went to visit two local markets. There are a lot of foreigners working and living in this area. The Mercado Roma market is more petty bourgeois and the price is much more expensive. Another Mercado de Medellín is relatively civilian, mainly selling various ingredients from Central and South America.

After visiting the market, I took the bus to the Soumaya Museum, which is a little far from the city. The architecture is extremely distinctive. The exhibits on the six floors inside are extremely rich. The second and first floors are full of Asian, especially Chinese artworks. You can see ceramics, stone carvings, sculptures, etc., including Guanyin, Tathagata Buddha, Shouxing, Zhang Guolao, He Xiangu, Nine Dragon Walls, etc. Later, I learned from friends that Soumaya was named after the dead wife of Mexico’s richest business tycoon, Carlos Slim Helú. To commemorate her, the exhibits on the sixth floor of the entire museum are all their private works of art, and tickets are free. Rich people just don’t Bad money. From 2010 to 2013, he was named the richest man in the world by Forbes.

After visiting the museum, I came out to meet a new local friend. This buddy is amazing. He studied in Beijing for two years and worked in Suzhou for another year. After returning to Mexico City, I worked at Huawei, and I had an opportunity to work at Didi Taxi here, but I didn’t go. Now I work for a local delivery company similar to Meituan. At that time, he took a scholarship from the Chinese government to Mexican college students to go to Beijing Institute of Technology to study. The professional courses were all on weekends, so he usually went to Chinese classes every day, and passed the Chinese Proficiency Test HSK Level 5 in more than a year. His Chinese is really good, and there are basically no obstacles in Chinese communication. Occasionally, if there is an obstacle, he will switch to Spanish or English, and communicate in three languages in turn.

He took me to Polanco, a nearby affluent area, which is very modern. We saw a bunch of luxury cars, big-name stores, well-dressed and high-end locals and foreigners. It feels like this has suddenly come back to a beach city in California. It seems that the gap between the rich and the poor is serious everywhere. Different areas in the same city have vastly different living consumption levels. We ate an ice cream at Neveria Roxy, a well-known local ice cream chain here, and went to a Moorish courtyard building in Kiosco Morisco, and then we were going directly to the taco shop he recommended, but he took me to drink mezcal, which is popular in Mexico first. A kind of tequila) and michelada (lime pepper salt beer), I told him that I basically don’t drink, and then he told me about the local Mexican slang "juevebes", jueve means "Thursday" , bebes means "you drink". Generally, people here will go to the bar to drink after work on Thursday nights. Some bars will have discounts for ordering drinks, similar to happy hour bars in the United States. Today happens to be Thursday, so I'll do as the Romans do. While drinking and chatting, he said that he likes Beijing the most. He talked about Wangfujing, Sanlitun, Gongti Ximen, Wanda, Happy Valley, square dance, zoo clothing wholesale market (doesn’t exist), the food in the university cafeteria, Beiwai The beauties of foreign economic and trade, etc., made me feel homesick. I really admire him for being able to master Chinese so well in such a short few years, and understand the local culture and customs thoroughly.

Finally, I finally moved to the taco shop that he highly recommended. We ate al pastor and suadero taco. Compared with the taco we ate before, it was a bit expensive, but both of them are the best we have eaten so far, compared to last night. Eat a lot stronger. This store also gives away a free bowl of soup caldo tlalpeño chicken and chickpea spicy soup, which is also super delicious.

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