Pilsen is, and will always will be (to some extent) linked to good memories. To enumerate:
Orientation week before school started, dinner with Hispanic friends, winter foodventure...and now a spring foodventure that was also philanthropic.
So let me explain the philanthropy. I have a friend who is really skinny, whose goal is to reach the same body proportions as Keira Knightley. Also, this friend is a guy, and he probably weighs less than me--partly because he forgets to eat and does not eat that much anyway. For me and Alice, this is unacceptable behavior, because food is an essential part of the day--the thought of "forgetting" about a meal is a bit shocking. In any case, we invited this friend to our foodventure.
So here's what we ended up eating...
Churros at Don Churro: SO GOOD. They were only a dollar, and they had different flavors of fillings--chocolate, caramel, strawberry, bavarian... I got bavarian, Alice got chocolate and Kevin got caramel, and we all liked our churros. Yum.
Free Appetizers: chips, salsa, soup
Chips-freshly fried and not from the bag
Salsa-tasted fresh, as always
Soup-always good and it has actual stuff in it (meat)
Lengua a la Mexicana: Lengua has always one of my comforting, childhood foods to be sure. I have so many fond memories of eating lengua from a very young age where I went to this restaurant in the Philippines that served lengua with mushroom sauce, and buttered vegetables+rice on the side. YUM. In any case, back to this lengua. It was cooked perfectly, to the point that it was tender--its tomato-based salsa sauce with a lot of onions went well with the lengua, making it a very hearty but not too filling dish. The lengua was served with flour and corn tortillas that were made by hand, so they were a LOT better than the dining hall ones that I tried today--in other words, did not taste like styrofoam.
Carne Asada Tacos: Well, I've actually never tried these myself, so I shall let Alice's picture speak for itself. That and the fact that this picture is from another time that we went to Nuevo Leon, where Alice also ordered the same thing.
Huevos Rancheros: Kevin got these, and he actually finished the whole thing (which is an accomplishment), so I'm assuming they were good. Unfortunately, I have no pictures to document how his food looked like before or after he ate it, so you will never know how it looked like or whether he actually finished his food. Maybe next time.
Horchata: Nueva Leon has the best horchata I've had. Normally, the horchata I've had in the past has been powdery or too sweet, but the horchata here is perfect and smooth. Also very good cleansing out your palate when you eat spicy food.
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