 Coastal Mexican food don't sleep on it. I love tacos, but this is beyond tacos. I'm never getting tacos again Buddy welcome to another episode in our beyond series today We are exploring Mexican food, and we are going beyond tacos So today we got Richie and Tan of course obviously tacos very entry-level when it was Mexican food I've never really seen a lot of this food. This is a whole another week Yeah, this is stuff you got to step out the resort in Cancun. They're not gonna serve this at the resort I mean a lot of these dishes are what like a lot of like Mexican people would go out to eat We have a five-round series round one. We've got the soups Okay, it almost looks like the base is the same for all four. It all has a little bit of spice to it But they definitely do look drastically different. Our first soup that we are starting off with it is the seven maras soup Seven Maras light broth. Yeah. Yep. Ooh seafoodie. Wow No, that broth is actually really really smooth really easy to eat It's not heavy. I feel you I like how it let the seafood shine because the seafood is the all-star of this dish It's not too fishy or anything. Okay, the next one is a very famous soup in Mexico is the tortilla soup It's crushed up tortillas that are fried. Wow, it's in soup. Tortilla soup I love that they added authentic tortillas in it. That tortilla. It just really breaks down The best way to describe it is a cracker that's been soaking in for a while This is light and nice and just smooth. It tastes like gram. Next soup is the pozole This is the pork soup. It has maize in there, which is like a form of corn. It's essentially corn Right off the bat the color is definitely more harsh. Pozole. The pork is so soft No, you really need the the additional garnishes. I feel like those are really crucial But the great appetizer we have the caldo de res. This is a beef soup Not bad a little bit more plain than the others That's to let the beef shine all the winners of the soup. Okay, I'm gonna go with Pozole, man I love the addition of the corn mace in there, man Man, I'm not to go with the seven Maris because you don't really see a lot of soups that let the taste of the fish Or the you know crab meat really shine through I'm rolling with seven Maris too because I thought the seafood quality Which is so high the tortilla soup had the pork in it. Oh Okay, the pork was good when you do pork right For me, I feel pretty strong about the I do too, man. I do too guys. I don't think anybody's mad if a pozole wins Yeah, I the Mexican soups. We are moving on to kind of our tortilla wrap burrito style food We've got burritos. We've got tequitos aka floutas chimichangas. It's a lot of tamales This is a habanero burrito. It's a wet burrito, but it's not red or green sauce habanero burrito I gotta say that sauce. That's a light light pink packing a lot more heat than you think There's too hot to handle There's two types of spiciness one that makes you want to keep eating and one that makes you want to stop This is the key. Oh, I like that. So all right moving on to our next item. We've got the floutas aka the tequitos These are obviously little fried almost mini burritos Floutas and these are chicken. This one's cool because I have a lot of cabbage and lettuce You tasted a lot of the carb on this one. Yeah. Yeah Okay, so chimichangas. What's the difference between a chimichanga and a burrito? Essentially a chimichanga is a deep-fried burrito. Some of this is Mexican American But I don't want to say it's a Tex-Mex. Mexicans have been in America for so long Actually part of America was a long way to Mexico at a time So it's just kind of that long-time fusion obviously it is more closer to Tex-Mex But I wouldn't say it quite is these are scary though because you cannot tell which ones are hot as you don't know What which way which ones are just nice jalapeno taste Taste the fried nests. Yeah, you taste the oil in a good way And I feel like the ones we've had had way more cheese This had like very minimal cheese if any next to finish up this round We got the enchiladas and the tamales now the tamales as you can see they have been Unwrapped and they're smothered here. Do you have the enchiladas which are smothered? Of course, that's how they're supposed to be tamales Stood the desktop almost really like a smothered one because sometimes unsmothered it might be a little too dry Mm-hmm enchiladas. Yeah, so so the filling of enchiladas usually pretty simple But really what varies is the sauce on top of it. I didn't expect the enchiladas to be so good I really like I was gonna say The mouthful of that enchilada was that the meat was a little bit dry But it made up for that flavor of the enchilada sauce The wrapping actually had a lot of flavor and until you try all these next to each other You can't really see the nuances in it. Everything tastes great. I'm gonna go with tamales though Yes, I had to re-confirm myself So I ate a little bit more the graininess of the tamales nice the texture and the taste of the cornmeal It just being smothered. I think it exposed me to a new tamale. I've never had Yeah, I mean if it lasted that many years, it's got to be good. Speak your truth We've lost the essence of food. The food was for procreation and building it Energy not just for looks in IG now. Okay moving on to round number three is very very important round It is the seafood round. So here we have ceviche boom We have camaronas a la crema, which is shrimp and cream. You have the mocajete Moriscos you got your camaronas a la diabla You got your deep-fried majaro fish Then you have camaronas cucaracha Yeah, so Ceviche I've always appreciated the sauce that comes with the ceviche man I went to a quinceanera once back in the day this whole set of food kind of reminded me of it I think I was there with you Veronica's Veronica Valencia's quinceanera shout out to her. Hope y'all doing well It was perfectly balanced with the tanginess, but definitely not overly tangy. Mmm. I love ceviche. It's not heavy It's fresh would have been nice for some chunks of fish though. All right next item of the seafood section We got camaronas a la crema, camaronas meaning shrimp a la crema being cream Oh, there's a base of beans at the bottom Camaronas a la crema. Whoa, so good man. Hey, if you guys are a fan of chicken Alfredo, you got to get this I love Alfredo. Wow, what a plane batter. Continuing the journey through shrimp guys We have the camaronas a la diabla. Really really really really nice looking dish. Camaronas a la diabla You know what it tastes like something that came off a sizzling platter Mexican food man the postal Mexican food don't sleep on it. You know I love tacos, but this is beyond tacos I'm never getting tacos again. Oh Wait, wait, let me retrac that This dish is the mocajete marisco caliente. This resembles more so of like a Cajun boil Mocajete marisco caliente That's how far the spiciest we had today. Yeah, I think the gringos would have a problemo with this one That's good, but I could do another caliente. That was nice next dish. Camaronas cucuracha You can see there's enough oil on top. It's kind of separating. This really looks like a Cajun boil Camaronas la cucuracha. It almost tastes like a flavor to the chicken wings I would say the last two are definitely flavors. I've never had before finishing off the seafood section Can the fish compete with the shrimp? Based off the looks it's gonna be tough. Yeah Fried bizarro what I do appreciate though tastes very clean. It doesn't taste too fishy You can find fish even in Indonesia or the Philippines they eat fried fish to it It just looks like that across the world everybody's cooking a fish that looks for sure rich How about you add some of that to the ceviche and then you kind of get what you wanted from earlier a little bit Okay, let's do it You don't eat the fish like that are you eat it in different things all right We understand that got the fish may not beat out the shrimp dishes, but it was nice as far as the winner for this round Right here. What are you guys going with D not tea? Oh, he's gonna be a shmurda David Don't look at me what I'm thinking I might have to go with the Diablo. I will go in the green with D and go with the Diablo as well Something that blew my mind as far as flavor was the cucuracha. Whoa. I mean I never had that flavor before Yeah, obviously it would be hard to eat that whole dish by myself. I could dip anything in that I'm going with crema and a strong vote. I gotta go with the crema All right, everybody if you are excited about the rest of this video Make sure to smash that like button hit your notifications and click subscribe. All right on to round four Which is our pollo section a.k.a chicken section guys starting here You have oil a la crema the chicken version Of the shrimp one we just had here you have pollo asado here You have pollo and molle molle being kind of like the deep Mexican curry and then you have your classic arroz con pollo Arroz con pollo. There's tomato sauce. This almost has the image of a pasta It's really simple, but that tomato flavor almost I would say is moving the direction of some enchilada sauce Yeah, pollo a la crema. That crema is too good Any type of meat we had shrimp earlier we have chicken now bro so good the onions they're cooked perfectly This dish is on point. Oh I personally like it with the red sauce some about the way the cream comes together with the onions and the mushrooms and In the red sauce who knew even the beans and the rice who knew the first creamy Mexican dish You have is going to be one of the best one pollo and molle It's made from a lot of ground herbs and spices and that's why it gives it that deep dark color ground chilies It has ground nuts even some ground fruit originating from oaxaca and other traditional native parts of mexico It's just earthy herbs, but less spices. It's just less spices. Yeah You guys kind of taste the nuttiness in it. Very sweet. That was good. The last chicken dish we have is pollo asado This is your grilled marinated chicken. Yes pollo asado Just about a smell of this chicken. I know it's going to be good. I'm gonna get I mean overall That's really good. Obviously if you eat it with the rice and the beans and jalapeno You have your whole meal right there one thing about this dish I could see a lot of people getting it that maybe are more conscious about what they're putting in their bodies I mean for something that looks almost like the plainest out of all of the dishes that we had so far Half the flavor. What are you guys going with man? I'm an easy crema. I gotta go with the molle molle, huh? It was smooth. It wasn't too spicy. It was a little earthy for me. I'm gonna go with the pollo asado I'm gonna have to go with the pollo asado too, man. Okay The pollo diversity was just boom boom boom. They do a lot of meats really well. These dishes here made me really appreciate chicken Yeah to wrap it up and lead into our last and final round five We just have some of the more famous mexican desserts here And not all these are like ultra authentic like for example. This is a cheesecake burrito Yeah, obviously you got the churro Probably one of the top three best deep fried desserts and of course guys you have the flan Strawberry cheesecake. This was on the menu. That's a good churro is really interesting because this also comes from europe But it's based off the the horns of the churro goat that look like this flan. This one is good And it's really sweet, but it's not too sweet, right? This is actually maybe the best flan i've ever had Super creamy and just like you want to sell that restaurant, man. El Rinconcito. They have multiple locations Fuck yeah, it breaks down so nice. You can just put it in your mouth and squeeze it through your teeth It's like the syrup makes about 30 40 percent of it. I actually want to try the cheesecake burrito All right, obviously this this looked a lot better when they gave it to us It actually came with a nice couple scoops of ice cream cheesecake burrito That's cheesy a little too cream cheesy for me That was a new york style cheesecake in the middle room The ice cream would have helped balance the saltiness of the cheese and then it would have been fire So I can't really judge that right now you guys we've arrived at our last and final dish We've got the cheesecake with the churros churros, but i'm just gonna go ahead Oh, I was not expecting it to dunk like that. This is not new york cheesecake I'm not gonna let you do it by yourself. Mmm. That's strawberry syrup. Wow. Oh, this is filled with smooth caramel It wasn't too sweet. I was really worried that it was gonna be too sweet, but guys, this is perfect What about churro and flan, baby? You can't go wrong. You can't go wrong All right, you guys we have arrived at the end. What was your favorite guys's dessert? I'm gonna have to go with the flan The flan. Flan. Flan. Flan. Flan. That was a unanimous flan But I do think if the tress leche is right here, it would be it would be a flan Be close. Be close when tress leche is is incredible. A lot of people's current image of mexican food is off the truck It's street food, but I'm like we had dinner foods. This is like what family foods These are family foods These are what a lot of mexican families are ordering when they go to the restaurant. Boom. What was your guys's favorite thing? One that's sticking out of my mind. Let me just say this flavor wise That's still sticking with me and it's seared into my brain synapses is the mocha headache The one with the the one that had fish and shrimp It was the mocha. That fish tripping crab. That fish tripping crab And despite not being my favorite the one I appreciate the most is gotta be the soups Oh, yeah The gotta be the soups because with most other cuisines the broth base is pretty overpowering So it doesn't really matter what you kind of put in it with the mexican soups man You really tasted all the ingredients What struck me was some of the seafood dishes because I had never eaten that much mexican seafood before At one time as far as the sleeper goes. I always say the crema never had that before that was really good And then my favorite I really enjoyed the tamale. That was really good. David, you mentioned earlier about just appreciating the chicken I mean, I did not think about no carne salto taco Right right right dishes really just Overpowered what we're used to having when it comes to tacos and burritos. So thank you guys so much for watching Give us a huge thumbs up subscribe the whole series that we have this here It's sort of just encouraging people to even take like maybe one more step than their peers around them into Someone's cuisine someone's culture put yourself in somebody else's shoes in the comments down below Let us know what your favorite mexican dish is that's not a taco or not a common food And the best comment is gonna get a 25 dollar amazon gift card. Oh, so leave your eyes to handle too Thank you so much and until next time we out See what you what you think man have the flan Hmm. You guys weren't lying You are lying I was afraid you guys were about to finish all the flan. I was like, oh leave me a piece That's good, huh? All right, john. Did you see you try something man? No, we got to get john that spicy dish Yeah, go go over there. Go get over there, man Okay, bring it over here Wow I'll try this. Yeah, mocajete mocajete Just with my hands or mocajete marisco caliente dip some sauce in it, man All right. All right. I don't know. Can you use a spoon? She's a spoon Okay, what do you get this fish again some uh, yeah, you got a little weird. You got a sweet ring right there Let's get it. Let's do it Oh so much flavor It's uh, let's say it's uh, muy delicioso Wow