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[quote=SHIVAH,269832]OOHhh where to begin replying :  sorry about the delay I've been in china and really busy!
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BLUEYANKEE44 
"...unlike any food you may purchase here in China,or any other country.Real food from any country other than the South American and Central America Regions can find it hard to duplicate the real taste of Mexican Fare."
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I actually had a chance to prepare an authentic Mexican meal in China. The ingredients in Chinese cuisine are surprisingly similar to Mexican ingredients.  I was rather surprised to find some of the same flavors exist in Chinese cooking and in Mexican cooking.  For example the combination of cumin and chili powder in a lot of the food had me thinking for a second about Mexican flavors. (I was in Qingdao and not in so. china, where I think the flavors are very different) I was able to find all the ingredients for a true mexican meal which consisted of:

bacon refried beans
chicken tomato rice with peas and carrots 
cucumber, carrot and lettuce salad with lemon & salt  
fajitas with onions, bell peppers, beef (top sirloin),  tomato, garlic and lemon,
guacamole and chips
handmade tortillas, flour and corn.
all topped w. Monterrey jack and sour cream

all the ingredients I found at carrefour and at jusco - as well as the local market.  I didn't notice a difference as far as the ingredients themselves.  The only thing i found hard to get was Cilantro for which the closest translation I could get was "green vegetable" Most expensive was the meat - top sirloin (expensive anywhere) though flank steak would have been fine - the cheese and sour cream - not Chinese but still found at any jusco or carrefour or wallmart .

Quote: ".... Mexicans prepare their food,where they live in the country,you
may think twice of eating too much of it,as it is not a diet food,and has other foods,eaten with them which is questionable,to anyones taste or preparation of content.Real Mexican food is an acquired taste."

I don't think that statement is quite true, The Chinese share a lot of the same ingredients Mexicans use in their cooking, even a lot of the same methods in cooking.  It was specially interesting to note that "exotic" Chinese food to an American or westerner is not quite that exotic to a Mexican taste bud.

For example -

Chinese:                           Mexican:
Silkworm                           Agave worm / crickets
pigs feet                            pigs feet
tripe                                   tripe
chicken hearts                  chicken hearts
turtle                                   turtle
pig brain                            pig brain
chicken feet                       chicken feet
fish with eyes & head       Same

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