Mexico: What is the best Mexican food dish?

 

Diego Noriega Mendoza, Filmmaker with a passion for everything and anything, writes in Quora:

 

"What are you looking for? Is it a fancy dish, which will make your palate feel like it is being handled by a tiny and very graceful masseuse? Is it something homely, like mama used to make, something that will evoke memories of playing in street corners and coming home to a warm bed? Or is it something from the street, the real taste of Mexico?

"As far as fancy dishes go, there is nothing fancier in Mexico than Chiles en Nogada. 

 

"A green pepper, filled with especially seasoned minced meat, covered with walnut cream, and garnished with pomegranate pulp. The combination of flavors is marvelous. It is a plate that requires time, patience, and knowledge. Even if you were to prepare it in your house and tasted good, I can assure you, the taste would be wrong. The plate is now prepared in many restaurants, but the really good ones are extremely hard to find. It is Mexico's national dish (yeah, not tacos) because of its worldwide recognition and the fact that it incorporates all three colors of the flag in it (Green, White, Red).
(Note: This is a traditional dish. Although many restaurants will serve dishes that many would consider fancier than Chile en Nogada, most of these dishes are author creations, or rethinkings of traditional dishes)"

 

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