@@L3WGReacts I recently discovered your video and been watching them just want to say technically nachos aren't mexican their tex-mex. Queso literally translates to cheese so it's a cheese dip basically but overall I can tell you that once you try real Mexican food not tex-mex you will love it even more. I also wanted to thank you for accepting and being so enthusiastic about mexican food and culture makes me a full blooded mexican proud and happy. I would also love to see you react to more vida about mexico and would love to see you down here one day I'm sure you will find tons of people that wouldn't mind showing you around.
@@rubenarias6538 Nachos were in fact invented by a Mexican in the town of Piedras Negras just across the river from Eagle Pass, TX. But they did become famous in the U.S.
When you go to a Tex Mex restaurant, they bring you free, fresh made tortilla chips with their red and green salsa. As much as you want. The queso (melted cheese), and guacamole is ordered separately. Naked tortilla chips are just chips. Nachos are chips that come with toppings.
Molè and Salsa Verde (the green enchilada sauce) can't be compared to anything European. Thsy might have something similar to Molè in Spain.. The chocolate in the Molè is combined with so many spices, you can't identify it, unless you know what you're eating. It's usually served with chicken. The Verde (green) sauce is not made with avocados, but roasted tomatìllos (look like green tomatoes, but AREN'T).
Mole is a mexican sauce that varies a whole lot, regionally. There's, of course, the classic chocolate mole. I visited a Oaxacan restaurant where they offered three or four different kinds of Mole. There's a place near me where you can get chicken with green Mole, for example, which was made with pumpkin seed and not chocolate. There's also red Mole, yellow Mole, etc. It can be made with nuts or squash and so on. There's a lot of different kinds. The most common you will see in the US, of course, is the brown/chocolate mole. It's kind of like General Tso's chicken or Ceviche. Where ever you go, it can be almost a completely different dish.
The green sauce on the enchiladas are made with green tomatoes (tomatillo or Physalis ixocarpa) is originally from Mexico. It includes slices of avacado on top. I know this because I live in Mexico City. 🍻
Texas native here. Noticed all the Brits in videos are coming to Texas. Girl from France said Mexican food was one of her 5 favorite things about coming to the USA. Get great Tex-Mex, best BBQ, Buc-ee's, and great seafood down on the Gulf coast. Lots of attractions in between meals in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Ft. Worth, & Houston/Galveston. Best months are October and April for decent weather!
Tex-Mex and Mexican food can be eaten daily because there are tons of options AND you can find plenty of delicious meals that are also nutritious and healthy.
Even if 85% of it is all variations of beans, cheese and tortilla. Nachos? Tortilla chips, cheese and beans and other optional things. Burrito? Meat, beans, cheese and rice in a tortilla. Taco? Same deal, just prepped different.
Southern biscuit dough usually has cold butter folded in multiple times, so the butter DOESN'T incorporate, instead forming fluffy, flaky, easily separated layers inside and a crisp, buttery crust on the outside. Cover them with a thick white gravy made from a roux, and filled with sausage bits, but most importantly the burnt bits at the bottom of the pan. Many also add bacon pieces with (again) the burnt bits. This adds an unbelievable depth of flavor, and goes perfectly with the biscuits. It is a warm hug on a plate.
Texan native here.....ya can't beat Mexican or Tex-Mex food.... especially living so close to the Mexican border the options are practically limitless and SOOO freaking Amazing.
My husband works as a chef in a Tex mex restaurant. It’s always exciting when he brings home chips and salsa, or chips and guacamole, or chips and queso, or chips and pico de gallo, or sometimes all of them. Yum.
I live in Nevada and grew up in Idaho. There are literally just as many varieties of Molè as there are chilis (the peppers), and Pho broth. My personal favorite happens to be exactly what they are eating, a Molè with unsweetened Mexican chocolate, cinnamon, and a variety of hot chili peppers.
That's for sure ! We ate Chinese food and pizza over the weekend and tonight it's bbq. Different flavors on different nights but all with 😋flavor. !! Dont often think on how lucky we are
Queso means "cheese" in Spanish. You can make your own. Side note: you could make your own nacho topping with hamburger patty for the meat. I understand that UK food culture isn't the best at times but sometimes you have to get creative.
Enjoyed your reaction to this video! Fortunately I live 5 minutes from this Eldorado Cafe in Austin, Texas. The mole enchiladas are my favorite thing on the menu. The chocolate is mixed with spices to produce an amazing sweet spicy sauce! It's phenomenal when done right, and Eldorado knows how to do it.
Just like every other country, Mexican food varies by region. Authentic Mexican food also varies here in the states. I'm from southern California which has very different Mexican food than Texas.
The Egg is sittings ontop of the enchilada. Enchiladas are a corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a savory sauce. Enchiladas can be filled with various ingredients, including meats, cheese, beans, potatoes, vegetables, or combinations. I like both Green and Red. My sister makes the best Tex-Mex/Mexican food.
That super spicy salsa is probably what we Texans would call a medium. When I make salsa I use a bunch of serranos and habaneros just to make it spicy enough for me 😂
Ok, to the Brits who think you can make nachos with flour tortillas: if I made a Yorkshire pudding with corn meal instead of wheat flour, does that make it an authentic Yorkshire pudding???
I lived in Austin for 10 years, and I sure do miss the real Tex-Mex foods. There's a distinct difference in the Tex-Mex available outside of Texas. Breakfast Taco/Taco food trucks are everywhere in the city, and they are spectacular.
I haven’t been to that exact restaurant, but Tex-Mex joints like that are all over Texas. San Antonio is chock full of them and I don’t think I could live without them. And for what it’s worth, there’s nothing like authentic Tex-Mex food from Texas, no matter who calls themselves “Tex-Mex”.
Tex-Mex is the best! I love it. Tex-Mex has more flavor and spice than traditional Mexican food. I love traditional Mexican too. I make a kick-ass chili and that sounds amazing right now. Chili is a cold weather food though and our temps are running 105° F every day right now in North Texas. So I'll save the hearty chili for a cooler day.
Tex Mex is different than Mexican food. Depending on where you are from it’s going to be different. In Lake Jackson TX there is a place called The Taco Spot. One of the things we love is the birria pizza. So good!
Yes. I don’t even eat chili with crackers. But, a lot of people like crushing them up and putting them in or taking a bite after a bite of chili. (Know you know this) just for reference for anyone not familiar.
What's the address? I live in Austin, born and raised. I've actually seen the owner of the restaurant a few times in the city. @L3WGReacts if you ever visit we'll go and go to the UT football game if it's in "Autumn" lol
@@bamachine not joking, there is a reason we've got great Mexican food, Mexico is literally on our border and tons of Mexican people come to America to make their peoples foods a success and there is a reason why it is more common here, you can argue me on this but out of all the british people I heard from, their Mexican restaurants are not that good or filthy....you should really watch Jolly(British friends who check out the world's food) and check out their first encounter with Tex-Mex and street tacos, they liked it for a reason and this is what they said, "I just realized, we can't get this food in the UK, "and talked about how their life isn't complete without it....
@@bamachine I doubt it's authentic. I noticed that Brits can't even get the names of the ingredients correct, with calling tortillas "nachos", cilantro "coriander" (which is a seed of the cilantro plant), and I don't think you can get tomatillas, fresh corn or flour tortillas or good masa over there. And a Brit who commented here said he likes nachos made with flour tortillas! WTF??? That's crazy and not authentic!
There is a difference between Mexican food and Tex-Mex food. You can find many, many restaurants in Texas with outstanding Mexican/Tex-Mex food. However the majority of the restaurants are going to be Tex-Mex. We love our Tex-Mex!
I'm from New York and grew up with none of these foods. I clearly remember the first time I tasted mole and I can tell you there's nothing like it. It's so complex and delicious but nothing like any other food. It's a thick very dark sauce. I had no idea there was chocolate in it, I didn't find out until years later. I'm in LA now and the Mexican food here is overall not that great (you have to find the really good restaurants). Arizona and especially New Mexico have great Mexican food (I never lived in Texas so I can't speak to that). NM has its own chilis called "Hatch Chilis" that are grown in the Hatch Valley and are fantastic and have their own flavor. They're hard to find outside of NM and AZ, probably because those states easily consume the entire yearly crop. Green sauces are made with tomatillos which are in the tomato family but distant cousins. They are tart and citrusy and also taste like nothing else. They're blended or crushed either raw or roasted and are essential for the salsa verde. Tomatillos are more available now definitely throughout the US southwest and wherever there's a Mexican American population. Salsa roja is much easier to make because the ingredients are more generally available and include tomatoes, onions, cilantro (coriander leaves), and jalapenos.
@@nicole06964 Yes I'm in the far west valley and East LA is 40 miles away from me. So I don't get over there much. I used to live in Echo Park and had lots of good food nearby. I'm way up here now and I cook at home a lot.
They love British accents in the US, especially in places like Texas. To them, a brit accent is both exotic and fancy. Any British accent, even it's dead common. Use that to your advantage. Just act friendly. Some Brits give off a cold vibe.
The Queso and the Guacamole cost extra but most places serve free chips and your choice of salsa, usually Red AND Green and sometimes others by request.
I live in a place that I'm sure you e never heard of.... Maryville TN USA. We are extremely blessed with Mexican food in my city. I'm supposed to be on a diet right now but I think I'm going to cheat my diet and enjoy some Mexican food tonight.
I live in Texas. When you go to a sit down TexMex or authentic Mexican restaurant you are served with warm tortilla chips and red and green salsas for a free starter. I order free ice water with lime slices. A good judge of a restaurant are the queso(mildly spicy cheese dip) and the guacamole that you can order. I love enchilada platters and homemade pork tamales. One restaurant I go to serves your hot items plate like enchiladas with Mexican red rice and refried beans or charro beans (seasoned whole pinto beans in a soup and a cold platter with a taco, pico de gallo, and a tostada(fried tortilla chip with toppings for @$15 US total price score tax &tip. I also like a Tampiqueno dinner which is a cheese enchilada with a thin seasoned Bisteak for about the same price. Chicken enchiladas, with verde sauce or suizas sour cream sauce. A platter of beef fajita nachos is also great. Do not forget to try desserts like churros, tres leche cake, flan with caramel sauce, or sometimes a battered and fried ice cream dessert dusted with cinnamon sugar. You would love to try these.
I don't understand why Brits keep using "nachos" to describe tortilla chips. Nachos are an appetizer with loaded tortilla chips using meat, cheese, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, onion, sour cream, guacamole, etc. You can probably make your own nachos if you have the above ingredients. Just put meat, beans and cheese first on the pile of tortilla chips, on a cookie sheet, then put it in the oven on med low heat, until the cheese melts, then add the rest of the ingredients and eat!
Could they cook a store-made one in a pan? Or am I being too offensive on it? I'm an Asian who has had amazing Tex-Mex but have zero idea on how to make it as good.
My family moved from Panama to Texas 45 years ago. When you come to America I can tell you great places to hit up in Texas for Tex Mex and Mexican food.
Salsa Mole is Mexican chocolate based. Salsa Verde(green) is tomatillo based. Salsa Roja(red) is tomato based. Mole typically goes on a Carne Asada or Machaca enchilada, Verde on pollo and Roja on queso. (Beef, chicken and cheese respectively.) Verde and Roja have varying degrees of heat depending on how they are prepared. You also need to realize that Mexico is very regional like the U.S. So you will find various authentic takes on them. Then there's pico de gallo, which translates to beak of rooster. No beaks in this chunky dipping delight though. At it's simplest form, diced tomatoes, onions and minced cilantro with a squeeze of lime juice to meld the flavors. You can certainly dice up jalapeños, serranos or habaneros to spice it up. Queso means cheese, so a cheese dip. Guacamole can be made spicy as well, which I prefer. But I add a little minced garlic to keep it from browning. Most people add lemon juice for that and usually overdo it making it tart.
1) I don't know if you can get it anywhere near you in the UK, but try birria tacos. It's beef, slow-cooked in chili, spices, tomatoes, garlic and onions, and then served in a taco with cheese and onion, cooked in the beef fat rendered during the slow-cook. That and barbacoa are my two favorite traditional meat styles. 2) They kinda screwed up the chili serving. You crush up the crackers and put them on the top to provide a little crunch. 3) There are dozens of different mole variants (including green and red), but they generally all have chili, garlic, and spices, with most having either cocoa or pumpkin seeds (pipien). 4) Enchiladas often look a mess, but they taste amazing.
When it came to the little cups of Salsa they had 3 types, along with Chile con queso, a cheese dip. they had roasted tomatillo salsa, Red salsa, and another version of the roasted tomatillo salsa, Ninfa made it really popular in the late 70`s early 80s, but it had avocado mixed in and along with the normal roasted tomatillo salsa, then puree, and while still warm, sour cream mixed it to make it extra creamy, we have that type of salsa at most Dinners around Houston, along with the Red salsa
Let me tell you a story son, their once in Portland Oregon food empire was once a Tex-Mex restaurant known as Esparzzas😊 in its peak people would line up outside the door 🚪 for hours to devour their food, I did this once for GF because well she wields the most powerful force in ominiverse and it was good, sometime later economics went south and this once rated 1 of best in nation wear people would line up to uffff a place wear you could simply walk in and get a seat, all because they sacrificed the quality of the foods to try to keep cost down... instead of raising prices across board to make up difference... last time I checked its a cheap tiki bar now.
Dude!!! You just need to figure out a way to get to Texas to try all that food in this and other video reactions you did!!! I'm not Texan, but I am American so I get it!! :D
"Mole" simply seems "sauce". The "chocolate" base is from the cacao seed (chocolate 'soriginal source), but it is a "savory", and NOT a "sweet". The sweet has sweetener (usually sugar) added to change cacao into what we think of as chocolate. Cacao becomes a savory with al the other added ingredients (25 to 30 is usual for mole), but there IS an undertone of what we think of as chocolate.
The red cheese enchiladas are my favorite. My mom makes them with Mexican cheese and onions. Then she sprinkles fresh queso and fresh onions. On top with sour cream Bomb.
I have to laugh because they look drunk on food. If you see the beginning of the video and what their facial expressions look like and then what they look like at the end of the video… It’s hilarious! 🤣
My heart BREAKS for you brother! I have lived in Texas my entire life. So I KNOW you haven’t had ACTUAL TEX MEX or MEXICAN food! You have had the BRITISH ATTEMPT of Tex Mex and Mexican food. It’s NOT the same. Shit, there are places HERE IN AMERICA that can’t get it right. Living in Texas I have eaten this food MY ENTIRE LIFE! It is, HANDS DOWN, the greatest food there is. I have tried A LOT of different foods.......... NOTHING COMES CLOSE! I am SERIOUSLY HEARTBROKEN FOR YOU! I just hope you can visit Texas soon and try all these BEAUTIFUL foods soon. When you do get here and try it PLEASE FILM YOUR REACTION. I WILL CRY TEARS OF JOY FOR YOU! 🥺🤤
Mole is made with unsweetened chocolate and several spices. The closest description I can tell you is a dark, smokey, earthy flavor....almost like an almost nutty flavor mised with unsweetened bakers chocolate and the smokey earthy taste of a dark hardwood as it burns.. It is an absolutely wonderful sauce for chicken...like the taste of daylight and dark in your mouth if that makes sense.
Not many Mexican or TexMex restaurants do it, but a long time ago, I had gone to a Mexican restaurant, and the queso sauce came with refried beans in it. So you would dip your chip in it and have queso/refried beans as an appetizer. It was such a good combination. Sometimes, I remember to recreate it while at a Mexican restaurant, lol.
Mole is so good... one of my favorite Mexican foods... if you haven't tried eggs on your enchiladas your missing out... its so amazing to have for breakfast...
This technically is not Mexican food, this is Tex-Mex . Some people like saltine crackers with Chili, i do not. I would use a tortilla chip or a spoon. I have tried to make a Mole sauce one time. It is so complicated, with so many ingredients that I failed miserably. It does have unsweetened dark chocolate but not Nesquick.
8:30 - Mole (looks like Mole Poblano in that dish) is one of my FAVORITES!!! The chocolate is not overpowering, but adds the perfect touch to the sauce.
Yes, when you sit down in a Mexican or tex mex restaurant - they bring chips and salsa to your table 1st thing. If their salsa isn't good - leave lol But yes, it's free . . and they bring refills! If you want the cheese, guacamole you have to pay for that.... Mole has Mexican chocolate in it - but does not taste like a sweet chocolate at all -- a good mole sauce is awesome! There's also red enchilada and green enchilada sauces!! YUM YUM YUM! Enchilada can be cheese, bean, beef, chicken, pork - or some mixed ie: Bean and Cheese or Chicken and cheese etc.. You definitely will have to try enchilada if you ever have a chance! I lived in Arizona for 20 years - and ate some of the best Mexican food I have ever eaten! That is the one thing I miss about living there!!
The chips and dips at the beginning is like Europe’s “break bread” with cheese or olive oil/wine vinegar at the beginning of every meal.. I have never ever calculated whether these types of appetizers are free or not..
Chips and salsa or chips and bean dip are free when you sit down. Guacamole is extra. Queso dip is incredible. I love Tex Mex but I’m from Arizona so what is most comforting and familiar and delicious to me is Sonoran Mexican food. I was one of the few non-Hispanic kids in my school and I married into a family from Chihuahua. My husband is a brilliant cook, and so I’m completely spoiled. Lol. I had to add a comment about the mole. People have to remember that cacao is Mexican, and that they drank it hot, unsweetened, like coffee. When you make chicken mole you use the unsweetened cocoa which adds a deep, smoky, richness, and then you add the chili powder and other spices and you stew your chicken in it until it melts in your mouth. If you can stop thinking about Cadbury and Hershey, and think about unsweetened chocolate like a coffee drink, then it makes more sense. We used to have a place on Mill Avenue in Tempe, AZ - Restaurant Mexico- and every Thursday they served chicken mole until they ran out. Our family was there every Thursday. We’d been searching for a a place who made it just as wonderfully here in Southern California, and my husband finally found ONE place that met his standards in Santa Paula. lol The same family that owned Restaurant Mexico also owns El Pollo Supremo on University Dr in Tempe. Best el pollo asado anywhere and the best homemade tortillas.
In Mexican restaurants usually Red and green salsa and chips come to the table for free. You have to be very patient not to eat them all before your food comes. Another brand of Mexican hot chocolate is called Ibarra.
My grandma used to always make molè con pollo (chicken) It’s so good. I no longer eat meat but it was one of my favorites. I didn’t know it’s made with chocolate till I got older cause you mostly taste the spices. Recommend for sure.
Most Mexican Restaurants have Tex Mex but, you can ask for the authentic dishes if you know what to ask for. Most of it is much more spicy than Tex Mex and some dishes will boil your mouth out from the heat but, I love very spicy food. The Restaurant here has 52 different types of salsa.
Mexican and Tex-Mex are really quite different. Tex-Mex has heavier gravies and heavy food. Mexican is a bit lighter with thinner sauces. Both styles are fantastic!
I've been there a couple times, and they do have amazing Tex-Mex. I live about 15-20 minutes from the restaurant. But there's a TON of great Tex-Mex, BBQ, Mexican restaurants and more in Austin, Texas. It's a foodies paradise city lol, if you ever come to Austin I'll give ya a tour around the city and show you some of the local quazin. 👍
Queso is cheese. usually Nacho cheese. Very little chocolate in Mole, it's strong and a bit bitter. Definitely an acquired taste. It mostly made of dried Chile's that have been rehydrated. I don't know about the Mole they are having, but if it tastes like Nesquick they did it wrong.
You haven't had any Mexican or Tex-Mex food yet, Trust me on this.
i need it in my life!
@@L3WGReacts I recently discovered your video and been watching them just want to say technically nachos aren't mexican their tex-mex. Queso literally translates to cheese so it's a cheese dip basically but overall I can tell you that once you try real Mexican food not tex-mex you will love it even more.
I also wanted to thank you for accepting and being so enthusiastic about mexican food and culture makes me a full blooded mexican proud and happy. I would also love to see you react to more vida about mexico and would love to see you down here one day I'm sure you will find tons of people that wouldn't mind showing you around.
You're supposed to grind up the crackers with your hands and drop them into your chili.
@@GoinBand2 I'm Mexican and I hate soggy crackers, I'd dip the crackers like they did.
@@rubenarias6538 Nachos were in fact invented by a Mexican in the town of Piedras Negras just across the river from Eagle Pass, TX. But they did become famous in the U.S.
9:35 British people when they're tasting seasoned food LOL
When you go to a Tex Mex restaurant, they bring you free, fresh made tortilla chips with their red and green salsa. As much as you want. The queso (melted cheese), and guacamole is ordered separately. Naked tortilla chips are just chips. Nachos are chips that come with toppings.
This restaurant is Eldorado Cafe at 3300 West Anderson Lane, unit #303, in Austin, Texas
Molè and Salsa Verde (the green enchilada sauce) can't be compared to anything European. Thsy might have something similar to Molè in Spain.. The chocolate in the Molè is combined with so many spices, you can't identify it, unless you know what you're eating. It's usually served with chicken. The Verde (green) sauce is not made with avocados, but roasted tomatìllos (look like green tomatoes, but AREN'T).
Tomatillo sauce is SOOO good. I need to learn how to make it...
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Mole is a mexican sauce that varies a whole lot, regionally. There's, of course, the classic chocolate mole. I visited a Oaxacan restaurant where they offered three or four different kinds of Mole. There's a place near me where you can get chicken with green Mole, for example, which was made with pumpkin seed and not chocolate. There's also red Mole, yellow Mole, etc. It can be made with nuts or squash and so on. There's a lot of different kinds. The most common you will see in the US, of course, is the brown/chocolate mole. It's kind of like General Tso's chicken or Ceviche. Where ever you go, it can be almost a completely different dish.
The green sauce on the enchiladas are made with green tomatoes (tomatillo or Physalis ixocarpa) is originally from Mexico. It includes slices of avacado on top. I know this because I live in Mexico City. 🍻
Both of these are my favorite
The green is "green" enchiladas. It's a sauce that is tomatillo based. They're like green tomatoes, the taste is quite unique.
Texas native here. Noticed all the Brits in videos are coming to Texas. Girl from France said Mexican food was one of her 5 favorite things about coming to the USA. Get great Tex-Mex, best BBQ, Buc-ee's, and great seafood down on the Gulf coast. Lots of attractions in between meals in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Ft. Worth, & Houston/Galveston. Best months are October and April for decent weather!
I was at a wedding in Austin Texas 3 weeks ago. they had a Mexican buffet. I am from Maine. it was taste heaven.
Imma be honest, Austin has the WORST Mexican food ever tbh. San Antonio Tex-Mex is way better
Tex-Mex and Mexican food can be eaten daily because there are tons of options AND you can find plenty of delicious meals that are also nutritious and healthy.
Even if 85% of it is all variations of beans, cheese and tortilla. Nachos? Tortilla chips, cheese and beans and other optional things.
Burrito? Meat, beans, cheese and rice in a tortilla.
Taco? Same deal, just prepped different.
thanks you, I have something new to try. have seen it on the menu but never ordered it.
Both molé and adobo are very complex sauces with unbelievable depths of flavor. And YES molé has cocoa in it as well as cinnamon if I’m not mistaken.
Don’t you in the UK put crackers in your soups? I was lmao watching him eat that chili. Mole’ is spicy chocolate sauce
Southern biscuit dough usually has cold butter folded in multiple times, so the butter DOESN'T incorporate, instead forming fluffy, flaky, easily separated layers inside and a crisp, buttery crust on the outside.
Cover them with a thick white gravy made from a roux, and filled with sausage bits, but most importantly the burnt bits at the bottom of the pan. Many also add bacon pieces with (again) the burnt bits. This adds an unbelievable depth of flavor, and goes perfectly with the biscuits. It is a warm hug on a plate.
Texan native here.....ya can't beat Mexican or Tex-Mex food.... especially living so close to the Mexican border the options are practically limitless and SOOO freaking Amazing.
My husband works as a chef in a Tex mex restaurant.
It’s always exciting when he brings home chips and salsa, or chips and guacamole, or chips and queso, or chips and pico de gallo, or sometimes all of them. Yum.
I live in Nevada and grew up in Idaho. There are literally just as many varieties of Molè as there are chilis (the peppers), and Pho broth. My personal favorite happens to be exactly what they are eating, a Molè with unsweetened Mexican chocolate, cinnamon, and a variety of hot chili peppers.
Some of the best tacos comes from people who drive their little trailers and park somewhere. Street tacos are usually awesome
Austin, TX is a Mexican Food Mecca! You have no understanding until you visit us. We won't even bring up the BBQ.
They also went to Terry Black's for Texas BBQ. Find that video if you haven't seen it.
Dallas is very good as well.
Watching your videos reminds me of how lucky we are here in the States when it comes to food.
We really are, so many different cuisines and flavor profiles, I am binging on Korea BBQ this month
That's for sure ! We ate Chinese food and pizza over the weekend and tonight it's bbq. Different flavors on different nights but all with 😋flavor. !! Dont often think on how lucky we are
For real 🇺🇸
Queso means "cheese" in Spanish. You can make your own. Side note: you could make your own nacho topping with hamburger patty for the meat.
I understand that UK food culture isn't the best at times but sometimes you have to get creative.
Enjoyed your reaction to this video! Fortunately I live 5 minutes from this Eldorado Cafe in Austin, Texas. The mole enchiladas are my favorite thing on the menu. The chocolate is mixed with spices to produce an amazing sweet spicy sauce! It's phenomenal when done right, and Eldorado knows how to do it.
Just like every other country, Mexican food varies by region. Authentic Mexican food also varies here in the states. I'm from southern California which has very different Mexican food than Texas.
The Egg is sittings ontop of the enchilada. Enchiladas are a corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a savory sauce. Enchiladas can be filled with various ingredients, including meats, cheese, beans, potatoes, vegetables, or combinations. I like both Green and Red. My sister makes the best Tex-Mex/Mexican food.
I had green chile chicken enchiladas for lunch yesterday. So YUMMY!
That super spicy salsa is probably what we Texans would call a medium. When I make salsa I use a bunch of serranos and habaneros just to make it spicy enough for me 😂
Ok, to the Brits who think you can make nachos with flour tortillas: if I made a Yorkshire pudding with corn meal instead of wheat flour, does that make it an authentic Yorkshire pudding???
Fried flour tortillas make pretty good chips to be honest. Not traditional but good AF.
I lived in Austin for 10 years, and I sure do miss the real Tex-Mex foods. There's a distinct difference in the Tex-Mex available outside of Texas. Breakfast Taco/Taco food trucks are everywhere in the city, and they are spectacular.
I haven’t been to that exact restaurant, but Tex-Mex joints like that are all over Texas. San Antonio is chock full of them and I don’t think I could live without them. And for what it’s worth, there’s nothing like authentic Tex-Mex food from Texas, no matter who calls themselves “Tex-Mex”.
Tex-Mex is the best! I love it. Tex-Mex has more flavor and spice than traditional Mexican food. I love traditional Mexican too. I make a kick-ass chili and that sounds amazing right now. Chili is a cold weather food though and our temps are running 105° F every day right now in North Texas. So I'll save the hearty chili for a cooler day.
Tex Mex is different than Mexican food. Depending on where you are from it’s going to be different. In Lake Jackson TX there is a place called The Taco Spot. One of the things we love is the birria pizza. So good!
I hope someone below in the comments let's them know we don't eat chili on saltines we use a spoon
Yes. I don’t even eat chili with crackers. But, a lot of people like crushing them up and putting them in or taking a bite after a bite of chili. (Know you know this) just for reference for anyone not familiar.
I’m not feeling the same pain cause I literally had this place for lunch today 😂
Lucky!
😢 jealous
ahhhh im jealous!
I’m jealous and I’m in the states (Arkansas). I need to get back to Texas. 😜
What's the address? I live in Austin, born and raised. I've actually seen the owner of the restaurant a few times in the city. @L3WGReacts if you ever visit we'll go and go to the UT football game if it's in "Autumn" lol
You don't know true Mexican food until you go to America, they have the best and most authentic Mexican food
I know you are joking but you can get authentic stuff here. Usually it is in little rundown buildings or food trucks but it is here.
@@bamachine Yep best places are usually a food truck near a Mexican Grocery store :D
@@bamachine not joking, there is a reason we've got great Mexican food, Mexico is literally on our border and tons of Mexican people come to America to make their peoples foods a success and there is a reason why it is more common here, you can argue me on this but out of all the british people I heard from, their Mexican restaurants are not that good or filthy....you should really watch Jolly(British friends who check out the world's food) and check out their first encounter with Tex-Mex and street tacos, they liked it for a reason and this is what they said, "I just realized, we can't get this food in the UK, "and talked about how their life isn't complete without it....
@@bamachine I doubt it's authentic. I noticed that Brits can't even get the names of the ingredients correct, with calling tortillas "nachos", cilantro "coriander" (which is a seed of the cilantro plant), and I don't think you can get tomatillas, fresh corn or flour tortillas or good masa over there. And a Brit who commented here said he likes nachos made with flour tortillas! WTF??? That's crazy and not authentic!
Half of Mexico is here, you can definitely get fantastic Mexican here
There is a difference between Mexican food and Tex-Mex food. You can find many, many restaurants in Texas with outstanding Mexican/Tex-Mex food. However the majority of the restaurants are going to be Tex-Mex. We love our Tex-Mex!
A lot are starting to do the Cali styled Mexican food. I enjoy both styles.
I'm from New York and grew up with none of these foods. I clearly remember the first time I tasted mole and I can tell you there's nothing like it. It's so complex and delicious but nothing like any other food. It's a thick very dark sauce. I had no idea there was chocolate in it, I didn't find out until years later. I'm in LA now and the Mexican food here is overall not that great (you have to find the really good restaurants). Arizona and especially New Mexico have great Mexican food (I never lived in Texas so I can't speak to that). NM has its own chilis called "Hatch Chilis" that are grown in the Hatch Valley and are fantastic and have their own flavor. They're hard to find outside of NM and AZ, probably because those states easily consume the entire yearly crop. Green sauces are made with tomatillos which are in the tomato family but distant cousins. They are tart and citrusy and also taste like nothing else. They're blended or crushed either raw or roasted and are essential for the salsa verde. Tomatillos are more available now definitely throughout the US southwest and wherever there's a Mexican American population. Salsa roja is much easier to make because the ingredients are more generally available and include tomatoes, onions, cilantro (coriander leaves), and jalapenos.
Many many Mom-n-Pop Mexican restaurants in Texas, so many, stellar food
We get the Hatch chilies here in Texas. At our local HEB grocery stores in San Antonio
@@zimmerlieg Yup I'm in SA, too, Hatch Chile season at HEB is so great, the ice cream is surprisingly delicious!!
Wait…. You’re in LA and you don’t think there’s good Mexican food there?! Are you in the valley or something?! Head over to east la immediately
@@nicole06964 Yes I'm in the far west valley and East LA is 40 miles away from me. So I don't get over there much. I used to live in Echo Park and had lots of good food nearby. I'm way up here now and I cook at home a lot.
The chips and salsa you usually immediately get and is free. If you order guacamole or queso, that’ll cost ya.
And most restaurants keep refilling the chips and salsa. 😜
The green sauce is made from tomatillos and it is leagues better than the red stuff.
😋 😋 😋 green tomatillo salsa is better.
Ignore the color, is all yummy flavor.
Yes it is! I could drink it 😂😂😂
They love British accents in the US, especially in places like Texas. To them, a brit accent is both exotic and fancy. Any British accent, even it's dead common. Use that to your advantage. Just act friendly. Some Brits give off a cold vibe.
You were getting emotional watching this. I totally understand. 😂
Chocolate is a bean that can be sweetened. So the molé is usually lots of peppers/spices with a touch of chocolate.
I believe peanut butter is also used in mole
Tex Mex is life!!
I'm in Texas and you are welcome to visit us anytime!
Mole is a savory chocolate sauce. Chocolate is not naturally sweet; Europeans are the ones who added sugar to chocolate.
And it's native to Mexico. That's where chocolates from.
Lol 😂 your cracking me!! Some of your reactions and comments are too funny 😁 😂 🇺🇸
Darlin’, Tex Mex and Mexican food are related but not the same, like Brits and Americans ❤
Haha your face @2:28 was great! 😂
The Queso and the Guacamole cost extra but most places serve free chips and your choice of salsa, usually Red AND Green and sometimes others by request.
I live in a place that I'm sure you e never heard of.... Maryville TN USA. We are extremely blessed with Mexican food in my city. I'm supposed to be on a diet right now but I think I'm going to cheat my diet and enjoy some Mexican food tonight.
My mom and uncle were born there! I need to visit. Never been.
Go get it, you need it for your mental health!!
Never assume you're not going to like something. Try it before you judge it. It might just be the best thing that you've ever had.
Enchiladas are amazing
Queso is a staple around here, don’t skip it. It does usually cost though
I live in Texas. When you go to a sit down TexMex or authentic Mexican restaurant you are served with warm tortilla chips and red and green salsas for a free starter. I order free ice water with lime slices. A good judge of a restaurant are the queso(mildly spicy cheese dip) and the guacamole that you can order. I love enchilada platters and homemade pork tamales. One restaurant I go to serves your hot items plate like enchiladas with Mexican red rice and refried beans or charro beans (seasoned whole pinto beans in a soup and a cold platter with a taco, pico de gallo, and a tostada(fried tortilla chip with toppings for @$15 US total price score tax &tip. I also like a Tampiqueno dinner which is a cheese enchilada with a thin seasoned Bisteak for about the same price. Chicken enchiladas, with verde sauce or suizas sour cream sauce. A platter of beef fajita nachos is also great. Do not forget to try desserts like churros, tres leche cake, flan with caramel sauce, or sometimes a battered and fried ice cream dessert dusted with cinnamon sugar. You would love to try these.
I don't understand why Brits keep using "nachos" to describe tortilla chips. Nachos are an appetizer with loaded tortilla chips using meat, cheese, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, onion, sour cream, guacamole, etc.
You can probably make your own nachos if you have the above ingredients. Just put meat, beans and cheese first on the pile of tortilla chips, on a cookie sheet, then put it in the oven on med low heat, until the cheese melts, then add the rest of the ingredients and eat!
Better to make your own chips as well by frying fresh tortillas. They hold up better than store bought tortilla chips.
@@liamengram6326 I doubt they have fresh corn tortillas in the UK.
Could they cook a store-made one in a pan? Or am I being too offensive on it? I'm an Asian who has had amazing Tex-Mex but have zero idea on how to make it as good.
@@catherinelw9365 I prefer flour tortillas for nachos and tortillas are literally one of the easiest things to make.
@@liamengram6326 Nachos are not made with flour tortillas. They would get gummy. That sounds disgusting.
A lot of people forget tortilla chips are supposed to literally be pieces of quality tortillas.
My family moved from Panama to Texas 45 years ago. When you come to America I can tell you great places to hit up in Texas for Tex Mex and Mexican food.
Salsa Mole is Mexican chocolate based. Salsa Verde(green) is tomatillo based. Salsa Roja(red) is tomato based. Mole typically goes on a Carne Asada or Machaca enchilada, Verde on pollo and Roja on queso. (Beef, chicken and cheese respectively.) Verde and Roja have varying degrees of heat depending on how they are prepared. You also need to realize that Mexico is very regional like the U.S. So you will find various authentic takes on them. Then there's pico de gallo, which translates to beak of rooster. No beaks in this chunky dipping delight though. At it's simplest form, diced tomatoes, onions and minced cilantro with a squeeze of lime juice to meld the flavors. You can certainly dice up jalapeños, serranos or habaneros to spice it up. Queso means cheese, so a cheese dip. Guacamole can be made spicy as well, which I prefer. But I add a little minced garlic to keep it from browning. Most people add lemon juice for that and usually overdo it making it tart.
mole. is actually unsweetened dark chocolate . its like a binder /smoother for the cheese and spices and broth
1) I don't know if you can get it anywhere near you in the UK, but try birria tacos. It's beef, slow-cooked in chili, spices, tomatoes, garlic and onions, and then served in a taco with cheese and onion, cooked in the beef fat rendered during the slow-cook. That and barbacoa are my two favorite traditional meat styles.
2) They kinda screwed up the chili serving. You crush up the crackers and put them on the top to provide a little crunch.
3) There are dozens of different mole variants (including green and red), but they generally all have chili, garlic, and spices, with most having either cocoa or pumpkin seeds (pipien).
4) Enchiladas often look a mess, but they taste amazing.
The take home box from any Mexican restaurant with an over easy egg or 2 on top is breakfast, especially margarita hangover breakfast.
If i were there i would be laughing at the nesquik so much, have you ever opened up nesquick and smelled the freshness
When it came to the little cups of Salsa they had 3 types, along with Chile con queso, a cheese dip. they had roasted tomatillo salsa, Red salsa, and another version of the roasted tomatillo salsa, Ninfa made it really popular in the late 70`s early 80s, but it had avocado mixed in and along with the normal roasted tomatillo salsa, then puree, and while still warm, sour cream mixed it to make it extra creamy, we have that type of salsa at most Dinners around Houston, along with the Red salsa
Let me tell you a story son, their once in Portland Oregon food empire was once a Tex-Mex restaurant known as Esparzzas😊 in its peak people would line up outside the door 🚪 for hours to devour their food, I did this once for GF because well she wields the most powerful force in ominiverse and it was good, sometime later economics went south and this once rated 1 of best in nation wear people would line up to uffff a place wear you could simply walk in and get a seat, all because they sacrificed the quality of the foods to try to keep cost down... instead of raising prices across board to make up difference... last time I checked its a cheap tiki bar now.
Dude!!! You just need to figure out a way to get to Texas to try all that food in this and other video reactions you did!!! I'm not Texan, but I am American so I get it!! :D
I love TexMex food. They didn't even have my favorite TACOS AL CARBON. The abuelita is amazing, love it.
"Mole" simply seems "sauce". The "chocolate" base is from the cacao seed (chocolate 'soriginal source), but it is a "savory", and NOT a "sweet". The sweet has sweetener (usually sugar) added to change cacao into what we think of as chocolate. Cacao becomes a savory with al the other added ingredients (25 to 30 is usual for mole), but there IS an undertone of what we think of as chocolate.
I love the food envy you display,you have got to come to America and eat your way thru….lol😉😁😎
How do they not know how to eat chili? It kinda bothered me that they didnt eat the salsa until the end.
my foods are, in order: Texas BBQ, Louisiana Creole, and Tex-Mex....
The red cheese enchiladas are my favorite. My mom makes them with Mexican cheese and onions. Then she sprinkles fresh queso and fresh onions. On top with sour cream Bomb.
I have to laugh because they look drunk on food. If you see the beginning of the video and what their facial expressions look like and then what they look like at the end of the video… It’s hilarious! 🤣
every time I watch your vids I feel this way LOL
You have to come to Austin Texas! All the food from BBQ to Tex Mex is simply the best most authentic in the world. Great video! Loved it. ❤
San Antonio Texas as well ❤️ Texas in general has great Tex mex food .
San Antonio does have some of the best Tex-Mex in all of Texas. Especially the little hole-in-the-wall restaurants on the Westside.
You will love the green enchiladas! Many moles are made with chocolate, but there are many additional flavors in there.
My heart BREAKS for you brother! I have lived in Texas my entire life. So I KNOW you haven’t had ACTUAL TEX MEX or MEXICAN food! You have had the BRITISH ATTEMPT of Tex Mex and Mexican food. It’s NOT the same. Shit, there are places HERE IN AMERICA that can’t get it right. Living in Texas I have eaten this food MY ENTIRE LIFE! It is, HANDS DOWN, the greatest food there is. I have tried A LOT of different foods.......... NOTHING COMES CLOSE! I am SERIOUSLY HEARTBROKEN FOR YOU! I just hope you can visit Texas soon and try all these BEAUTIFUL foods soon. When you do get here and try it PLEASE FILM YOUR REACTION. I WILL CRY TEARS OF JOY FOR YOU! 🥺🤤
Mole is made with unsweetened chocolate and several spices. The closest description I can tell you is a dark, smokey, earthy flavor....almost like an almost nutty flavor mised with unsweetened bakers chocolate and the smokey earthy taste of a dark hardwood as it burns.. It is an absolutely wonderful sauce for chicken...like the taste of daylight and dark in your mouth if that makes sense.
You can find Tex Mex all over the USA. It's one of my favorite kinds of foods in the world!
Nothing like eating a hot crispy taco with the cold shredded cheese, cold lettuce and hot beef pause
Not many Mexican or TexMex restaurants do it, but a long time ago, I had gone to a Mexican restaurant, and the queso sauce came with refried beans in it. So you would dip your chip in it and have queso/refried beans as an appetizer. It was such a good combination. Sometimes, I remember to recreate it while at a Mexican restaurant, lol.
Mole is so good... one of my favorite Mexican foods... if you haven't tried eggs on your enchiladas your missing out... its so amazing to have for breakfast...
thats a hell of a way to insult the owner by telling them it doesnt look good
I thought the same thing. Then to suggest that they didn’t make a dish properly because it didn’t look like a UK “taco” is quite ignorant as well.
Molé has Mexican chocolate in it....along with 31 other ingredients!!!😋😋😋😋
This technically is not Mexican food, this is Tex-Mex .
Some people like saltine crackers with Chili, i do not. I would use a tortilla chip or a spoon.
I have tried to make a Mole sauce one time. It is so complicated, with so many ingredients that I failed miserably. It does have unsweetened dark chocolate but not Nesquick.
green enchilada sauce is from using green chili papers you would love it
8:30 - Mole (looks like Mole Poblano in that dish) is one of my FAVORITES!!! The chocolate is not overpowering, but adds the perfect touch to the sauce.
Yes, when you sit down in a Mexican or tex mex restaurant - they bring chips and salsa to your table 1st thing. If their salsa isn't good - leave lol But yes, it's free . .
and they bring refills! If you want the cheese, guacamole you have to pay for that....
Mole has Mexican chocolate in it - but does not taste like a sweet chocolate at all -- a good mole sauce is awesome! There's also red enchilada and green enchilada sauces!! YUM YUM YUM! Enchilada can be cheese, bean, beef, chicken, pork - or some mixed ie: Bean and Cheese or Chicken and cheese etc.. You definitely will have to try enchilada if you ever have a chance! I lived in Arizona for 20 years - and ate some of the best Mexican food I have ever eaten! That is the one thing I miss about living there!!
The chips and dips at the beginning is like Europe’s “break bread” with cheese or olive oil/wine vinegar at the beginning of every meal.. I have never ever calculated whether these types of appetizers are free or not..
I been to the restaurant several times for their breakfast. Absolutely fantastic.
When you go to Tex Mex restaurants, chips and salsa are complimentary. You have to pay for queso.
Chips and salsa or chips and bean dip are free when you sit down. Guacamole is extra. Queso dip is incredible.
I love Tex Mex but I’m from Arizona so what is most comforting and familiar and delicious to me is Sonoran Mexican food. I was one of the few non-Hispanic kids in my school and I married into a family from Chihuahua. My husband is a brilliant cook, and so I’m completely spoiled.
Lol. I had to add a comment about the mole. People have to remember that cacao is Mexican, and that they drank it hot, unsweetened, like coffee. When you make chicken mole you use the unsweetened cocoa which adds a deep, smoky, richness, and then you add the chili powder and other spices and you stew your chicken in it until it melts in your mouth. If you can stop thinking about Cadbury and Hershey, and think about unsweetened chocolate like a coffee drink, then it makes more sense.
We used to have a place on Mill Avenue in Tempe, AZ - Restaurant Mexico- and every Thursday they served chicken mole until they ran out. Our family was there every Thursday. We’d been searching for a a place who made it just as wonderfully here in Southern California, and my husband finally found ONE place that met his standards in Santa Paula. lol
The same family that owned Restaurant Mexico also owns El Pollo Supremo on University Dr in Tempe. Best el pollo asado anywhere and the best homemade tortillas.
LOL….”That Place” is on every other corner in Texas, and EVERY corner in South Texas. Tex-Mex is a way of life!
I live near the Mexico border in Southern Arizona and OMG we are in Mexican food HEAVEN! So good you will cry 😊
In Mexican restaurants usually Red and green salsa and chips come to the table for free. You have to be very patient not to eat them all before your food comes. Another brand of Mexican hot chocolate is called Ibarra.
No queso bro….omg u r so missing out!! I love it…have two containers in my frig tonight. Definitely a bucket list item for u then.
no matter how many times you may watch this you will never know how good this stuff is until you have it
My grandma used to always make molè con pollo (chicken) It’s so good. I no longer eat meat but it was one of my favorites. I didn’t know it’s made with chocolate till I got older cause you mostly taste the spices. Recommend for sure.
Most Mexican Restaurants have Tex Mex but, you can ask for the authentic dishes if you know what to ask for. Most of it is much more spicy than Tex Mex and some dishes will boil your mouth out from the heat but, I love very spicy food. The Restaurant here has 52 different types of salsa.
He's a part of the crew. They usually have three camera people.
Angle of the dangle! I almost fell out of my silla!
Mexican and Tex-Mex are really quite different. Tex-Mex has heavier gravies and heavy food. Mexican is a bit lighter with thinner sauces. Both styles are fantastic!
Nestle is a chocolate corporation who produces both nesquick and that mexican cocao. They aren't the same product lol.
I've been there a couple times, and they do have amazing Tex-Mex. I live about 15-20 minutes from the restaurant. But there's a TON of great Tex-Mex, BBQ, Mexican restaurants and more in Austin, Texas. It's a foodies paradise city lol, if you ever come to Austin I'll give ya a tour around the city and show you some of the local quazin. 👍
Queso is cheese. usually Nacho cheese.
Very little chocolate in Mole, it's strong and a bit bitter. Definitely an acquired taste.
It mostly made of dried Chile's that have been rehydrated. I don't know about the Mole they are having, but if it tastes like Nesquick they did it wrong.