Mexico City at last!

Got here yesterday at 13:00 hrs, finally.

I've bee wanting to come back since last year ; Mexico City, or DF as the chilangos call it, is truly an amazing locale.

If you like food, and you are not afraid to eat on the street, this is THE place for you. Markets are simply insane and the tianqguis , the red tarped street markets, are where the best food is found.

After snacking all afternoon on Christmas Eve dinner leftovers we got pulled into a neighbour's birthday party, with mariachi band and all the trimmings.

Señora Elvia, the birthday girl's mother and a friend of my girlfriend's family's, insisted we had just un poquito of chicken mole and pozole, followed by two rounds of birthday cake and plenty tequila and coconut cream... Over tequila and tostadas I got tipped on the best moronga in the area and decided I was going to try it the next morning for breakfast.

So here we are, in Nezahualcoyotl 's Monday market looking for the "Moronga Lady".

Moronga sauteed with jalapeño peppers, onion and epazote

Moronga: pig's blood sausage

It goes without saying that the taco I've been served was:

                                     Awesome;

                                     Supersized;

                                     Made with one of the best corn tortillas I've tasted.

After taking care of some "family business" we went to the neighborhood market looking for dinner supplies and stopped for a snack at this cool little pescaderia wich also serves fried fish, seafood cocktails and other seafood snacks and tapas

Fish and seafood tapas (botanas)

My fantastic shrimp empanada

The bill read like this:
2 shrimp cocktails, 2 shrimp empanadas, 1 crab tostada, 1 fish quesadilla, 4 Coronas for ...ready?...$200 pesos, less than 20 U$ !!!

Now, all hapy and fed we started wandering around and got into this amazing lamb barbacoa .
Barbacoa consists in a whole lamb steamed wrapped in maguei leaves, which adds a nice grassy and almost sweet note to the meat. The drippings and the juices make for a super tasty broth to be eaten with rice or chickpeas.

I don't have to add that the fruit and vegetable stands are on a monumental scale and full of , for us, exotic offerings

Huitlacoche, black corn  mushroom, fresh, cleaned and at a third of Los Cabos price!

Well. I think this is it for today.. I'll be hitting one of the oldest and more unbelievable markets in downtown Mexico City on Thursday.

I'll post plenty of interesting pics of hard to find and pretty much unknown traditional Mexican dishes.

Dinner's ready! Good night.