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21 August 2006

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?
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posted by ThePinkSuperhero 21 August | 16:33
Well, I humbly submit that the admixture of the English "gin" and the Indian "tonic water" was perhaps the high point of human civilization.
posted by Triode 21 August | 17:43
I don't know if this counts, but I heard there's a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis run by a bunch of goths.
posted by pieisexactlythree 21 August | 19:14
Would that be Cajun then? Spicy and blackened?
posted by eekacat 21 August | 19:38
Mo Pitkins WAS Jewish-Latino fusion when it opened, but it's morphed into bar food.
posted by brujita 21 August | 23:54
So I asked for a correction to an article at SFGate... || Dolphins are stupid.

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