So I just went to NYC for the first time and the meme is true, NYC Mexican food really is amazing.
My airbnb was in Bushwick (awesome neighborhood by the way) and I ate a lot of Mexican food since there was a lot around, and it's convenient and relatively expensive. Goddamn it was good, it was the highlight of my trip as far as culinary stuff goes. I also bought a churro from a cute Mexican lady on the subway.
And yeah that neighborhood is interesting, it's a weird mix of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Hipsters, as well as some black folk closer to the J train. Lots of hot hipster girls and Latinas walking around.
I plan on returning to New York in a few months, any spots (especially Mexican, but I'm open to everything) to check out? I hear the Mexican population in NYC is mainly from Puebla and Oaxaca so I'd love to try some regional stuff.
Mason Phillips
There's a banh mi place on the edge of Chinatown that's fucking excellent, if that's your thing.
Benjamin Barnes
Yeah I like authentic Asian food too, what's the name of the place?
Kayden Stewart
Banh Mi Saigon, on Grand street between Mott and Mulberry. Try a few at once if you can, otherwise the classic pate one with whatever sauces they offer on it is great.
Brody Jackson
>NYC Mexican food really is amazing
The absolute state of white people
Jaxson Phillips
Try Los Tacos No. 1 in Chelsea Market, I've heard from a couple Mexicans it's the best tacos they've had in the city
If you're in bushwick go to Ichiran ramen
Jonathan Young
A thread died for your blog post. Thanks for the bullshit. All we know is you had a churro. Keep your fat fingers off the internet.
Gavin Richardson
You gotta try this hip little hole in the wall Mexican joint called "Taco Bell" next time you're in in Brooklyn.
Christopher Barnes
That's Queens, you retard. Also, I want that mixed girl's hole
Ryder Hernandez
How is that white? The white thing is "hurr California Mexican food is so much better because I like cheesy fries and I don't know where to look"
Jonathan Gutierrez
I've heard great things about them. I've tried their sister restaurant, Los Mariscos 1, and it was really fucking good.
Benjamin Russell
go back to your /sip/ thread, fag
Noah Cox
you can get the exact same mexican food in every single American city, even fairly small ones
Jason Ramirez
nyc has more legal hispanics per capita than California so they open restaurants instead of having to own illegal shitty taco trucks
Cameron Lopez
So Louisville and Lexington Kentucky have a wide array of Mexican food? I doubt it
Jackson Jenkins
LA Mexican food is the best, SD Mexican a close second Southern California is basically a Mexican colony at this point but the food is amazing
Nathaniel Perez
What makes LA Mexican better than NYC or Chicago Mexican?
Wyatt Collins
Californians are so arrogant. I'm not denying California has a lot of great Mexican food, but they assume that NYC can't have good Mexican food just because they don't know where to look. And because there's less food catering to gringos and black people, such as carne asada fries.
Kevin Clark
>californian mexican food
You gringos make me laugh
Blake Morris
enjoy having your heart cut out by cultist gangs
Landon Carter
Are you in Mexico? A lot of Mexican people leave Mexico and make the exact same food in the US
Juan Perry
Not in Mexico white bois
Hunter Gutierrez
so your opinion is even less relevant
Aiden Ward
Make America Mexico Again
Jaxson Robinson
Mexican food in New York is trash. Texas as well. California has the best Mexican food. Even in California, places in Los Angeles are crap. The key is to go to places that don't have much American influence.
Justin King
>chicano
Luke Wright
you don't know what you're talking about. I bet your New York experience is limited to Times Square
Joshua White
You can find good Mexican food all over the USA if you are willing to try places out. 2 weeks ago I stopped at a truckstop in bumfuck Pennsylvania and there was a little Mexican restaurant (shack, really) next door so I tried it out. It was outstanding.
Josiah Adams
>anything in NY >good AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Brayden Baker
some of the best Mexican food I've ever had was in Philly, in a food court.
Hudson Flores
my sister lived in washington heights for school and when i visited i tried a few places but nothing piqued my interest.
Isaiah Brown
Washington Heights is known mostly for Dominicans.
Chase Cox
Is this neighborhood safe for gringos?
Mason Stewart
There are drunk 80 pound white chicks walking around at 4 in the morning, so yes
Cameron Murphy
An even better banh mi can be found at Ba Xuyen in Brooklyn. That's where the biggest Chinatown in NYC is located (8th Ave). Three blocks away on 5th is one of the biggest Mexican neighborhoods in the city, so it might be worth a gluttonous day trip. The neighborhood is Sunset Park. Take the D or N train to 36th St. I'd go with a friend, split a doble torta at Don Pepe on 5th, then walk through the park, catch the view of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline. Then split a banh mi at Ba Xuyen (the sardine is the one, believe it or not) then hoof it along 8th through Chinatown. Maybe grab an order of dumplings at Hometown Cuisine, and some hand pulled noodles if you really want to go crazy. By the time you've hit 60th St you've earned a beer. Have one with the racist old guys at the Soccer Tavern. Then head back to 5th and continue south into Bay Ridge. Bar hop along the way as the neighborhood turns Middle Eastern. When you get to 80th stop at Istanbul Bay and split a iskender kebab and a lamachun. By this point you and your friend will be bursting, but you will have walked about 50 blocks and only seen a handful of hipsters. And only spent about $50 on food for the both of you. Use some of the money you just saved to get a Lyft back to Bushwick, because you're really in the middle of nowhere. But you will have eaten seriously well.
Matthew Gray
this is excellent advice
Michael White
Isn't Flushing a larger Chinatown than Sunset Park?
Oliver Miller
Interesting that you say "barhop as the neighborhood turns Middle Eastern".
Related question, how much longer before Bay Ridge does a Bensonhurst and goes from being racist Italians to a bunch of ethnic people?
Joseph Clark
>how much longer before Bay Ridge does a Bensonhurst and goes from being racist Italians to a bunch of ethnic people? Happened a decade ago, though some Italians and Greeks still hang on. Sunset Park's Chinatown goes for over 20 blocks.
John Phillips
Bay Ridge-fag here, the italians are still here but its more middle-eastern for sure. right before i moved last year I was noticing a lot more of the young white liberal type walking around, seeing as bay ridge is one of the cheaper places to rent in brooklyn, i can see why its a sleeper-hit for transplants to move to.
also don't do to Istanbul Bay like this user said, go to Karam on 86th and 4th ave. Their shwarma is legendary, albeit overpriced (was $8.50 last time I went but its pretty filing).
Christian Clark
We get the actual ingredients shipped in fresh and its actually spiced the way it should be
Plus the illegals are fresh across the border so we get legit Mexican cooking with American ingredients so safer and healthier
Nolan Perry
We have "fresh across the border" illegals in NYC too. A Mexican in New York is no less Mexican than a Mexican in California.
Hunter Hughes
Bay Ridge is surprisingly cool, but not hipster cool. It remains a sleeper because the R train isn't all that convenient and most folks think of it as Saturday Night Fever and the gateway to Staten Island, if they think of it at all. Since I moved to Sunset six years ago the wife and I go out on more dates in Bay Ridge than we do in Manhattan. I recommended Istanbul Bay because it's good (the lamachun is amazing) and so fucking cost effective. If money were no object I'd recommend Tanoreen or Le Saaj.
Do you shop at Balady?
Parker Gonzalez
So Bay Ridge is no longer an Archie Bunker neighborhood? That's what I figured, but I thought it was still more Archie Bunker like than Bensonhurst. Same goes for Dyker Heights. I wonder where the guidos I see at Roll n Roaster come from, I'm guessing either Dyker Heights or over the Verazzano.
Samuel Rivera
This is somewhat off topic, but have you noticed that people's perceptions of what the New York accent is are super outdated? People think we talk like Paulie Walnuts, but only old dagos and Jews sound like that.
Logan Adams
the connected ones live in dyker heights, the normal ones live in SI
John Long
Nah ours are different, yours are more sober ours are more loaded up on whatever they crossed with
Blake Robinson
I meant the guido kids more so. It's weird when I go there because the crowd feels more like Eastern Nassau county than anywhere I've been in Brooklyn.
Ryan Lewis
It seems like the Archie Bunker types moved over the bridge to Staten Island, where they could buy bigger houses and have cops and sanitation workers for neighbors. But some of them are still there. The other day I watched a teen Black Lives Matter march going down 5th with a police escort, and an older woman in a pickup rolled down her window as she drove by and shouted "BLUE LIVES MATTER!"
Truth is this corner is kind of a hard place to be racist because so many people you have pleasant interactions with on a daily basis are immigrants or the children of immigrants. And it's been that way here since it stopped being farms. First it was Germans and Irish, then Finns, Scandinavians, Italians and Greeks, then Poles and Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, then Mexicans, Chinese and various Middle Easterners. Just on my block there are at least eight languages spoken in addition to English.
The New York tough guy like you see in movies and TV was a real character. I've known a few of them. Most of them are dead now. The youngest example of that character I know is now in his 70's, and left the city years ago because he didn't like how it had changed and couldn't afford it anymore. So yeah, I'd say most people's NYC stereotypes are a good 30 years out of date.
Brayden James
Even in 1970 though, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, non guido whites, etc. didn't talk like that. For some reason, perceptions of the NYC accent are Italian centric.
And I'm surprised BLM went down to Bay Ridge, as that neighborhood is neither black or centrally located.
Adrian Taylor
you know what's funny though, even Staten Island is becoming more diverse. A ton of Mexicans live in Staten Island now, and not just North of the Expressway. Are the guidos gonna push it further into New Jersey? Actually I think they're already doing that.
Jayden Phillips
20 yrs ago fuck NO . i still cant believe white people can walk around Bushwick now. Its insane
Jaxson Collins
I would totally live in Bushwick if I could afford it, that's my favorite neighborhood in New York. I dig Flatbush and Kensington too, though.
Parker Perry
It's not that insane, 20 years ago was a long time. I'm a young adult and I don't remember shit from 20 years ago. There have been at least some whites there since the 00s, it's not like whites just started moving there last year.
Also, Mexicans are kind of new to the neighborhood too, before they came it was all Puerto Ricans and blacks
Caleb Taylor
>perceptions of the NYC accent are Italian centric. The Mid-century Italian and Jewish spins on the Brooklyn accent were in a lot of popular movies, hence the perception. But the accent goes back before that. I'm convinced part of it is a legacy of a Dutch accent people spoke with here 250 years ago. I've been to Amsterdam a few times, and people speaking Dutch from a distance sound a lot like New Yorkers speaking English. This is exactly what's been happening. No surprise, though. That's kind of typical of how the immigrant story has always gone down in Brooklyn. Immigrants arrive here, families establish themselves, and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren end up living in Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut or Long Island. And the next groups of immigrants replace them. 20 years ago I wouldn't have walked around Sunset Park, either. Now I fucking live here.
Noah Anderson
My white uncle lived with his white Belgian wife there in the late 90s, it couldn't have been that bad
Logan Moore
In the 70's and 80's there was a lot of muggings, shootings and drug gang activity, particularly in the park and around 45-49th Streets. Neighbors who grew up here have told me stories. For a while the park was pretty much run by a Peurto Rican gang selling drugs. A neighbor's brother was shot dead on the street here for drunkenly saying the wrong thing to the wrong people. And I have another neighbor who has lived the last 30-some years of his life borderline retarded from a beating he took when he was mugged on the street here in his 20's. It was definitely not the kinder, gentler NYC we know today.
Lucas Roberts
i've never tried the lahmacun from istanbul bay but it's my go-to order at most places so i will take you up on the recommendation when i visit my parents again. I only went to Balady once as I usually go to Pineapple Market or this halal deli on 81st and 3rd if i want some middle eastern shopping. but i live out west now so i won't be getting my delicious lamb pies anytime soon :(
there are still a decent amount of the classic brooklyn types in bay ridge/dyker/ bensonhurst. my step-dad is a living example of that and if I go to certain pizzerias, bars and bagel bakeries then you will exclusively see those types
Evan James
Big difference between 1999 and the 70s/80s, though.
Jackson Gonzalez
I lived in Vinegar Hill in the 90's. I felt safe, but did hear gunshots pretty regularly at night.
Jordan Baker
the best mexican food i've had in the heights has come from the delis rather than actual restaurants.
Isaiah Morgan
>mfw i lived in the west village with my single mom in the mid 90s and now the possibility of being able to afford moving back is virtually impossible
times have changed ;_;
Jordan Bailey
But NYC is famously known for having great food from all parts of the world, that people from those countries vouch for, but also for having famously bad Mexican food compared to nearly everywhere in the US within a 2 state radius of the Mexican border
Benjamin Diaz
>famously known for having great food from all parts of the world more like known for having food from all over the world, that is very overpriced and any halfway decent places are overcrowded or hard to get in
James Nelson
Can confirm. There's a tiny gas station and convenience store near me that's run by a Mexican family. They have a deli counter/mini restaurant in the back with all kinds of great stuff but you wouldn't even know it was there if you didn't go inside.