Cómo es la comida en Costa Rica? Me interesa mucho este país: se dice que tenga pájaros multicolores y que sea magnífico en general - el lugar el más próximo del paraíso en todo el mundo. Lo enconstraste así?
La comida Mexicana no es la comida Centro-Americana.
Eso es verdad. Sin embargo, la comida del sur es muy similar a la comida Centro-Americana. Tamales verdes, muchos banannas, etc...... _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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Cómo es la comida en Costa Rica? Me interesa mucho este país: se dice que tenga pájaros multicolores y que sea magnífico en general - el lugar el más próximo del paraíso en todo el mundo. Lo enconstraste así?
No se para seguro, pero yo se que tienen un del mas mejor de cafe en el mundo! Pero, depende de tus preferencias personales. _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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Costa Rican cuisine is known for being tasty, yet fairly mild, with high reliance on fresh fruits and vegetables.
That doesn't sound a lot like Mexican food, unless it's less spicy in the south. Is that the case, Josh? I've had a bit of Nicaraguan food here, and it wasn't spicy. Maybe in Central America they just add their own hot sauce on an individual basis.
I don't think Mexican food is much like Caribbean food. The latter tends to be sweeter and fruitier, less spicy -- well, it can be spicy, but it's not as chile-based. It's just different. I've had Cuban, and it's certainly nothing like the local food around here!
But Mexican food varies a lot by region, so you might find food further south that's nothing like what I'm used to.
Get yourself some fish tacos while you're near the coast, fab -- tacos de pescados -- scrumptious! And I'm not even a big fish fan.... _________________ An apple a day....
Did I tell you I had the best shrimp in Puerto Penasco? They were enormous -- almost prawns -- and they had been steamed with herbs, and came with lemon and a nice big bowl of cocktail sauce. Washed that down with a Corona & lime and I was in heaven.....
I guess for whatever reason, the local restaurant chose to serve their fish tacos with actual American-style tartar sauce on the side -- well, it was a little runnier than regular tartar sauce. Pretty much the first time I've ever seen tartar sauce anywhere near a tortilla, but what the hey, I tried pouring some on. You know what? With the fish and the tomatoes and the asadero cheese, it was actually pretty damn good! Weird, but good. _________________ An apple a day....
Cómo es la comida en Costa Rica? Me interesa mucho este país: se dice que tenga pájaros multicolores y que sea magnífico en general - el lugar el más próximo del paraíso en todo el mundo. Lo enconstraste así?
No se para seguro, pero yo se que tienen un del mas mejor de cafe en el mundo! Pero, depende de tus preferencias personales.
Claro, tienes razón: el café costariquense (cómo se dice algo de Costa Rica?) es celebre, pero personalmente no me gusta tanto el café, huele fenómenal pero el sabor no lo encuentro bien. Prefiero el té y casi todos los tipos por ejemplo caramelos, vainilla etc.. Y chocolate caliente, eso me encanta: puedo beberlo sin parar LOL !! Supongo que allí haya chocolate, no?
Me gustaría viajar a Costa Rica algun día. Quiero ver los pájaros y después iré a las islas galapagos para ver las tortugas enormas -son muy cariñosas, no estás de acuerdo?
That doesn't sound a lot like Mexican food, unless it's less spicy in the south. Is that the case, Josh?
Well, no, but there is this sort of continuum involving the food and climate relationship in the region. Southern Mexican food differs from typical northern Mexican food (which is what we eat in the U.S.) in that it makes use of much more fruits and vegetables native to the tropical Central American region. So fried banannas would be very typical as is the case in the Caribbean or Central America. Lots of papaya, and mangos, and guava, etc.
Tamale husk will be flavored and died green by banannas. They eat black beans instead of pinto beans just as they do in Cuba or Central America. And rice will typically not be died a reddish color by tomatoes as it is northern Mexico. Turkey is used in place of chicken quite a bit also. And things are just different down there. In fact, I am willing to say that in many ways, food in the far southern states of Mexico has more in common with Guatemalan food than with food from Sonora or Sinaloa. _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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La comida Mexicana no es la comida Centro-Americana
Well, it depends what we call "central-America". Actually, here Mexico is seen as part of central-America for cultural reasons, being a former Spanish and colony and mostly a tropical (and subtropical) country it doesn't fit with the north American concept.
Actually, saying that Mexican food was a central American food doesn't mean that it is all egual. I know that it exists quite a lot a local variations of food habits in all Central-America and Mexico.
Mexican restaurants are not so much common here than in the US so we are not specialists of the question. But, for what I tasted, I found that Mexican and Costa-Rican food have a lot of common points: the high use of beans seem to me a crucial point - and a lot of chiken, and with this a lot a tropical products, fruits etc.
But that's true that Mexican food has the characteristic of being very hot, which is not the case of Costa-rican one. But I think that it is also possible that some local mexican foods are not spicy. Actually the mexican restaurant I know serve a lot of plates not spicy at all, and quite similar to Costa-Rican ones.
Actually, here Mexico is seen as part of central-America for cultural reasons, being a former Spanish and colony and mostly a tropical (and subtropical) country it doesn't fit with the north American concept.
I can't say this is true Fab. For the most part, Mexico is not tropical. It is only tropical or sub-tropical in the southern regions. The vast stretches of northern Mexico is largely desert, and central Mexico is an arid place, with shrubbery and trees, and flowers, but definitely no rain forest or tropical climate. Only the south has this.
But culturally, you are correct. Mexico is grouped in with what we call "Latin America", rather than "North America", which includes Anglo America/Canada. _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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Supongo que allí haya chocolate, no?
Y el c en la primera versión se lo pronuncia como s, no?