Unusual but good ethnic food combinations? We have a restaurant here... →[More:]We have a restaurant here called Chino Bandito's Takee Outee that serves Chinese-Mexican-Jamaican combinatons.
I've seen plenty of Chinese/Mexican places in NYC, but those places had two distinct menus. Chino Bandito mixes the two. For example, my lunch today was a combo consisting of a sweet'n'sour pork quesadilla, a serving of "pollo diablo", pork fried rice and black beans. Other possibilities include an Egg Foo Yung burrito, a Jerk Chicken quesadilla, or more traditional mexican dishes like machaca and carnitas.
And they make some righteous snickerdoodles.
It's very close to my parent's house in Phoenix. For some reason, I had never tried it before today despite knowing about the cult-following it has. During high school, my friends and I would even stop in to buy some snickerdoodles during our lunch breaks, but we never ate their main dishes.
But the fact that our group of faux-macho high school boys made lunch pit-stops for snickerdoodles amuses me greatly.
To top if off, they have a great logo: a panda dressed like the steretypical Mexican bandito complete with handlebar mustache, sombrero and blazing pistols. There's a life-size sculpture of this bandito in their dining room.
Anyone else have weird but tasty examples of mixing cuisines?