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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m from Arizona.  My husband is from Texas, so he loves Chuy’s.  It fine, I guess.  Our favorite is El Sol in Vienna and they have a DC location, too.  Alfredo Solis is the chef and he is from Mexico City.  It’s by far the best Mexican I’ve found east of Arizona.

And also, to add to the international list of cities where the Mexican is lousy, include Helsinki.  Yuck. [/quote]
Why oh why are you eating Mexican food in Finland?? That makes no sense to me… it’s like people who visit China and eat only at Italian restaurants. [/quote]

DP but it's not weird. When people come to DC from other countries, do you think they should only eat burgers and hot dogs? No. It's a major city and has a lot of food from different cultures, some native to the US and some not. Visitors to DC might go out for burgers but they might also get Ethiopian or Chinese or Mexican. The joy of eating in a city is you don't have to eat the same style of food every day.

Having traveled through Scandinavia, I have had Mexican there. It wasn't great, but there was novelty in finding out what Swedish people think Mexican food is. Like it's interesting to see that cuisine translated to a country that has a very different diet than what we eat in the US. I also ate Italian food, shawarma, Chinese carry-out, pizza, and burgers. I also ate tons of fish and pickled things.

Oh, and also, guess what people who live in those cities eat a lot of? American food! Our friends who live in Sweden go out for burgers and fries once or twice a week. Also pizza and shawarma. They don't sit down to pickled herring every night.[/quote]

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