I have a friend who grew up in Tokyo and went to the American School there. She claims that the best Mexican food she's ever had was at a place in Japan. And this girl has lived in California (Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Jose) for six years now.
While I won't go as far as the claims in Post #1, when I was in Japan in 1989, a friend took me to what appeared to be a fast food Mexican joint in downtown Osaka. I expected it to be really bad, but it was comparable to something you would find in a mall food court in California. I was really surprised.
On a related note, on a business trip to North Dakota in the late 1990s, I stopped at a Mexican restaurant off the highway, just to be able to say how bad it was. It was ten times better than I expected (probably run by people from Mexico). Who would have known?
There's an "Iron Chef" where the challenger is making Mexican dishes. It was odd to see the Japanese judges recoil in horror at the type of food they were getting.
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While I won't go as far as the claims in Post #1, when I was in Japan in 1989, a friend took me to what appeared to be a fast food Mexican joint in downtown Osaka. I expected it to be really bad, but it was comparable to something you would find in a mall food court in California. I was really surprised.
On a related note, on a business trip to North Dakota in the late 1990s, I stopped at a Mexican restaurant off the highway, just to be able to say how bad it was. It was ten times better than I expected (probably run by people from Mexico). Who would have known?
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