Hola a todos! El blog esta un poco abandonado ultimamente, pero las ocupaciones me impiden hacer algunas cosas que me gustaria e ir a sitios que aun quiero ir. Ademas, la Navidad de por medio, viajes, estar con la familia, asi he dedicado mi tiempo. De todas formas, el trabajo es el causante del poco tiempo libre que tenemos, aunque estoy muy agradecida de que no falte!! :)
Aun con poco tiempo y teniendo el domingo como unico dia libre practicamente, seguimos yendo a sitios que estaban en nuestra lista de Chicago y alrededores. En esta ocasion, fuimos al "Maxwell Street Market" hace dos domingos.
Historicamente, es un mercadillo en el que los puestos son regentados por emigrantes. En estos momentos, las tiendas y puestos son mejicanos, pero en otras epocas, eran polacos, bulgaros o de otros paises.
Descubrimos este mercadillo viendo "Food channel" y mas concretamente, en un programa donde hablaban de comida mejicana. Fue el mismo programa en el que descubri "Xoco" (lo conte en otro post) otro restaurante mejicano y en esta ocasion, dijeron que en este mercadillo se hacian algunos de los tacos mas autenticos en los USA.
Hi everyone! The blog is a bit abandoned lately but I don't have all the time I'd like to do things I want and go to places I still want to visit. Christmas in the meantime, travelling, crossing the ocean and being with my family are the things that have kept me busy. My work is still the main reason why I'm so busy, but still I'm very thankful to have it! I love it!
Even though Sunday is our only free day we still try to go to places that are on our Chicago list and surroundings. This time we went to the "Maxwell Street Market" two weeks ago.
It is an open market where emigrants especially have tents to sell food and other stuff. It is run by Mexican people mainly, but years ago it was also run by Polish or Bulgarian people.
We discovered this market watching a TV program in "Food Channel" about Mexican food. We discovered "Xoco" watching the same program and they also say that in this market you can find some of the most authentic and good tacos in the US.
El barrio donde esta el mercadillo no parece extremadamente seguro, asi que yo no recomendaria ir por alli de noche o uno solo :). El mercadillo no es muy grande y si he de ser sincera, tengo que decir que me decepciono un poco. A lo mejor es que en la tele todo sale mas bonito y luego cuando uno lo ve por si mismo, no es lo que tu esperabas.
Los puestos no tenian nada especial, algo de ropa, algunas herramientas, algo de decoracion, pero nada espectacular. Entre los puestos que me gustaron, uno era de sombreros mejicanos de varias clases, para ponerse y para decorar :) y otro de frutas secas, donde compre piña, mango y kiwis secos, muy rico todo!
The neighborhood where the market is locates is kind of sketchy, so I wouldn't recommend going there at night or alone :). It is not too big and to be honest, I must say that I was disappointed. Probably it is due to the TV program I watched. Everything looked nicer on TV and then when you see it, the real thing is not as expected.
The tents didn't have anything very special, some clothes, tools and some deco stuff. I liked a mini shop of "sombreros mexicanos" of all kinds and a shop of dry fruit. I bought dry mango, pineapple and kiwi, very nice!
Llegamos alli sobre la una del mediodia y comenzamos a ver puestos y sobre todo, a buscar los famosos tacos de pastor!! He de decir otra vez, que los puestos donde preparaban la comida no parecian demasiado limpios, pero puesto que alli se encontraban los mejores tacos de Chicago, nos fuimos hacia el puesto donde estaba la cola mas larga :) Ahi me teneis en la foto, en la cola de Rubi's tacos.
We arrived there around noon and we started looking at the shops and we started the search of the tacos de pastor!! I have to say again :) that the cooking tents were not very clean, but since the best tacos of Chicago were there, we went to the stand with the longest queue :) Here you see me waiting to eat tacos from Rubi's tacos.
Thomas haciendo cola :) Thomas waiting at the queue.
Even though the environment was not the ideal :) everything pointed out that the tacos were prepared in the most traditional way. They were preparing home-made corn tortillas. You can see them on the picture and if you look carefully at the pan, just next to one of the tortillas, you can see a piece of meat that was used to grease the pan or maybe to give some flavor to the tortillas...hehe! The truth is that I didn't like much that detail, but maybe that's the way to do it.
Despues de casi una hora de espera, si, si, una hora! Sacaron un cartel que decia que la carne de pastor (cerdo marinado) estaba agotado y tambien, la lengua de ternera. Asi que nos pedimos dos tacos y una quesadilla, todo de filete de ternera o como ellos le llaman "asada". La quesadilla era igual que el taco, pero con un trozo de queso ;).
After one hour waiting, yes, one hour! the cook wrote a note saying there was no more pastor meat (marinated pork) or beef tongue, so we ordered two tacos and a quesadilla of steak or "asada" as they call it. Quesadilla was exactly like a taco, but with a piece of cheese.
Aqui estamos los dos comiendonos los tacos. Here we are eating tacos.
Para finalizar la visita nos comimos un churro! El mio sin nada y Thomas de vainilla. Los churros son muy parecidos a los españoles, pero la masa es un poco distinta y a mi personalmente, me gustan mucho mas los españoles :) es solo cuestion de gustos.
To finish our visit we ate churros! I had a plain one and Thomas a churro filled in with vanilla. Those churros are very similar to the Spanish ones, but the dough is slightly different. I personally prefer the Spanish ones :), it is just a question of taste.
Thomas y su churro! :)
Despues de la experiencia del Maxwell Market, he decidido que me gusta mas la comida mejicana de otros sitios, como Xoco o Rocky's Tacos :)
Desde alli fuimos al "United Center", donde juegan los Chicago Bulls. En la puerta hay una estatua de Michael Jordan, me encanta Michael Jordan!! Normalmente se puede pasar dentro, pero ese domingo estaba cerrado :(
Ademas, hace tiempo compre entradas para un partido de los LA Lakers vs Chicago Bulls, pero el partido se suspendio, con lo que aun no se si ire a otro partido o que...De momento, tendre que volver otro dia para ver la cancha.
Lo que si hicimos fueron las fotos de rigor junto a la estatua, jeje! Aqui nos teneis a los dos posando.
Quiza no fue el mejor taco del mundo y la estatua es solo una estatua, pero me lo pase muy bien!! Hasta otro dia!!
After the experience of the Maxwell Street Market, I've decided that I prefer Mexican food from Xoco or Rocky's Tacos :)
From there we went to the "United Center" where the Chicago Bulls play. There is a statue of Michael Jordan at the door, I love Michale Jordan!! You can normally go inside the center, but the other day it was closed :(
I bought tickets for a LA Lakers-Bulls game, but it was cancelled and I haven't still decided if I want to go to another game or what, so we were not able of seeing the game zone.
What we did that day was taking pictures next to the statue :) You can see us below.
Maybe it wasn't the best taco ever and the statue is only that...a statue, but I still had fun that day!! See you soon!!
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