Have you ever been to Birria Guadalajara in Tijuana?
They make birria to die for. I can't remember the name of the street but I
am going to TJ next week and I'll get the
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"Wayne Lundberg" > wrote in message
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> To add a bit of color to Barfield's recipe, birria is a very traditional
> breakfast or morning snack for working people in Mexico. It had it's
origins
> in the slaughterhouse just south of downtown Guadalajara where today you
get
> the best birria in the world from the 'estanquillos' small restaurants
that
> line the Western side of the rastro. Within this neighborhood you will
find
> several worl-known birria restaurants. Now, as you take a break from your
> maquiladora in Tijuana, you will find the two-wheeled tented vendor
kitchen
> within a block or two of wherever you have your plant. They are
everywhere!
> You order one or two tacos at a time while leaning forward to eat so as to
> not spill the juice on your clothing. Or you order a cup of the juice, the
> soup, with or without meat, and garnish it with finely diced onions,
> cilantro, chile sauce, raddishes, chile de arbol, a squeeze of the little
> Mexican limes, a dash of salt....
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> Over the past twenty years birria and tacos al pastor (the pyramid of meat
> slowly being broiled and sliced thin to make tacos) have proliferated
> throughout Mexican's working class like wildfire. Some taco shops have
> opened in the hightest class neighborhood such as Polanco, where you pass
> through security checkpoint after checkpoint to park in a secure parking
> spot for you to enter the taco stand in safety. The prices are ten times
> higher than on the street - but that is a reflection of the popularity of
> these two taco fillings.
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> A lot of birria is made with kid and a lot with mutton; but mostly it's
> pieces of beef that don't sell well in the regular markets. It all started
> as a way to use up the salvaged meat as the butchers chopped away at the
> main cuts. Instead of tossing the pieces to the dogs, they gave them to
> people willing to cook up a spicy dish and serve as a snack during that
> midmorning break called almuerzo. That has changes and quality meat is
used
> almost exclusively in most places.
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> Wayne, and my favorite birria vendor is behind the Gigante store in Parque
> Industrial Las Brisas, about a half a mile East of the Cinco y Dies.
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