Burrito de Chicharrón
The burrito de chicharrón stews hard pork crackling in salsa until it slackens and swells, then wraps it in a warm flour tortilla: a snack fried for its crunch cooked tender on purpose.
The burrito de chicharrón stews hard pork crackling in salsa until it slackens and swells, then wraps it in a warm flour tortilla: a snack fried for its crunch cooked tender on purpose.
Grilled beef burrito; carne asada, often with just guacamole and salsa in Mexican style.
Green chile pork burrito, NM style.
The Sonoran wrap built on a paper-thin forty-centimetre wheat flour tortilla, filled with machaca or carne asada and rolled tight. The Sonoran name for the local burrito form.
The bulgogi taco has a real birthday: Los Angeles, 2008, the Kogi truck, where chef Roy Choi turned Mark Manguera's Korean-barbecue-in-a-taco idea into short rib seared dark in a charred tortilla.
Texas breakfast staple; soft flour tortilla with scrambled eggs plus various fillings—bacon, chorizo, potato, cheese, beans. Huge in Aust...
Egg and potato breakfast taco.
Egg and bean breakfast taco.
Mexican chorizo fried until it renders, eggs scrambled into the fat, folded into a warm flour tortilla: the egg-and-chorizo breakfast taco of South Texas and northern Mexico.
Egg and bacon breakfast taco.
Barbacoa breakfast taco; weekend specialty.
Crunchwrap with breakfast ingredients—eggs, bacon, cheese.
Eggs, potato, cheese, and chile rolled in a warm flour tortilla and sealed in foil, peeled down as you drive. The Santa Fe naming claim, and the older dish beneath it.
Breakfast burrito with hash browns or fries inside.
Mexican white bread roll; crusty exterior, soft interior, torpedo-shaped. Most common torta bread.
Fusion combining birria with ramen elements.
Jalisco's sourdough-style crusty roll; harder than bolillo, essential for torta ahogada. French influence.
Ground beef, nacho cheese, beans, sour cream, cheddar in flour tortilla.
The bean-and-cheese burrito is the form at its floor: warm refried beans and a melting cheese fused into one body inside warm wheat, the everyday norteno and Cal-Mex base.
The BBQ brisket taco is an open hybrid: Central Texas post-oak smoked brisket, a cut no taqueria cooks, laid open on a warm flour tortilla and finished Mexican with onion, cilantro, salsa, and lime.
Austin's breakfast taco culture; fierce loyalty to local taquerias, flour tortillas dominate.
Arizona style; often with green chile influence from New Mexico, chimichanga popular.