Having been accused of being too political I decided to do a restaurant review. My wife and I went to an amazing Mexican seafood restaurant called Mambos at the corner of Hilcroft and Bellaire, close to the giagantic Fiesta on that corner. I've travelled to nearly all regions of Mexico since 1965 when as a teenager I made a car trip with my father down all the way to Chetumal on the Belize- Mexico border (British Honduras-Mexico border back then). Mambo's seafood is great and fresh and affordable . However, the atmosphere is so amazingly like I would say the restaurants on the main square of Veracruz, that as my wife and I talked about our trips to Mexico, I actually found myself looking at the salad and wondering if I should eat it. I forgot I wasn't in Mexico!! (True) For the full effect, fight the crowds and go on Sunday afternoon when the Mexican and Salvadoran families from the Gulfton Ghetto pile in to eat after their 6 day week laboring to make our life easier and more affordable in Houston. It made me feel like I was living in a great cosmopolitan city. The effect was even greater since we were returning to the inner loop from one our own rare journeys,and an interesting cultural experience in itself, to visit a relative who lives in an absolutely brand new, yet modest, development west of Copperfield and Highway 6. Sorry, but I don't think Mambos does "big ass gorditas".
There is a little place near where I work called Tecate's. They have an amazing Mexican seafood soup. It's kinda like a Mexican gumbo. Spicy...loaded with crab meat...shrimp, etc.
I'll ignore the one (or two, if you read into the suberbia comment) little leftist jab and concentrate on the meat......errr.....seafood of the subject. What should one order at a Mexican seafood restaurant? I've had seafood at plenty of mexican restaurants.....including the second best scallop dish I've ever had as an "off the menu" special at Ninfas back in the early eighties before they went corporate. Nevertheless, all the seafood I've had at Mexican food places seemed like it was added to the menu as an afterthought. What are some specialties that I should expect and look for?
I'd mention something about a pot and kettle and being black....but I'd probably be called a racist. Anyway, my question about the seafood still stands.
Name me a poster I do that to? I had a thing with T_J, but I let a lot of his posts go without responding. It just seems that glynch gets the same responses from you and several others nearly everytime he posts. And this time in a ****ing food thread. Why open a glynch thread at all? Anyone ever tell you you're obsessed with this race thing as well?
There's a place called Tampico on Airline that's very funky, but is also very good. Everyone needs to let the arguing go and think about food.
You are absolutley 100% correct. So.........what kind of seafood should I eat at a Mexican food restaurant that specializes in seafood?
and the 100% correct comment was for RM95....subatomic slipped his post in before me.....but he is 100% correct too.
I like seafood enchiladas too....but still, they seem........so Tex-Mex to me. I've only been across the border, so I don't feel like I've experienced REAL Mexican food. For that matter, I wouldn't know it if it hit me in the face. I like Tex-Mex....but I always feel like I'm missing out on something authentic. I get the same feeling with Chinese food...it seems so Americanized. Thai is one of the few foods I love to eat that doesn't make me feel like I'm eating something Americanized. Not to get off the subject of Mexican seafood.
I'm not a real seafood connosuer sp? because I'm too cheap to eat it frquently. I liked the fried seafood platter that was very lightly breaded. Probably not particularly Mexican, but good and inexpensive. Now the shrimp cocktail was very Mexican, catsup, I think, avocado, mild onions finely gound, lime juice and other ingredients. I had some steamed fish (vapor, mojo de ajo) that had a relish of crunchy fried garlic. They had other cocktails of ceviche, fish pieces instead of shrimp. Seafood Verucruzana has a mildly spicy tomato sauce, with onions and green peppers if I recall. Not seafood, but they had something called a Michelada, I had a light beer that came in a frosted mug. The mug had a mild hot sauce and lime juice mixture and you poured the beer into the mug. A very unusual drink, that my wife declined. I didn't think I would like it, but it grew on me. How was Tampicos on Airline? I've never gone there, but have gone to Connies down the way. What was really special about Mambos was the tremendous crowd in a large restaurant. I like the atmosphere more than Connies on Airline. It was extremely lievely in a working class family way that reminded me of Mexico.
Not yet - I can't eat one of those bad boys by myself and couldn't convince my padre to share. Next time I will be more persuasive as it is quite the legendary dish here in Houston. What makes me most ashamed is that I lived a minute away from the place for three years but didn't go there until I moved to Kingwood. Yes, I am a dork.
No one tried to kill you? I used to work out there and you could see drug transactions taking place less than 1 block away from that Fiesta in broad daylight. Also probably not a place you want to wander around at night. There's a fast food place next to that Fiesta (Red something or Checker something) where a driveby or shooting occured several years ago that made big news. It's a rough area of town. One thing I miss about Houston is the variety of food. In Dallas there seems to only be one area of town you can go to where you can find something "different" (Greenville area). Everywhere else it's a bunch of chain restaurants.
I think my dad made me one of those beers once. I forget the name, probably because I didn't like it. Mexican seafood, I don't know, shrimp tacos kick ass, does anybody know of a good place to get some?
I hate to burst your bubble, but apparently Thai food in America is nothing like actual Thai food from Thailand. I know a Thai family, and they say that Thai food from Thailand is just not very good. They prefer "Americanized" Thai food.
