No where in the States would you EVER see a sign like this alongside the road:)
Some things I've noticed while being here:
-You usually pay either before you get your food at a restaurant or you go up and pay at the end of a meal (the wait staff NEVER takes your credit card). This is a good way to cut down on credit card fraud but it took a little getting used to.
-At a restaurant if you order a soda they either bring you a bottle of soda and a glass or they bring you a glass of soda and you get zero refills.
-If you order a chicken dish for supper all you get is the chicken dish, no sides. Sides are a separate fee.
-Restaurants have to pay a fee for you to take leftovers home (they call it takeaway) so what you don't eat gets thrown away (I've only encountered a few restaurants that have given me a to-go box).
-Over here when you pay with a credit card they ask if they can do PayWay-this is where they take your card and hold it over the machine and it charges you what you owe. Um...maybe I'm behind but none of my cards are able to do this. I say, we just got the chips in the US, we don't have PayWay yet. They are all shocked, but they take my card and then insert it in their machine. They are a little advanced over here compared to what I'm used to.
-Not food related but as you know I work in scheduling and when they say the word schedule they leave out the c and say sheduling. I want to say a shed is something in your backyard, but I just keep my comments to myself, haha. Brian and I have discussed how weird this sounds to us because we hear it on a daily basis.
Went out for a 3rd time for Mexican food and this was rated as the #1 Mexican restaurant I found when doing a search on-line. When I ordered chips and salsa, which again, were not free and you only got what you see here. The chips were thick and were covered in a sweet sugary chipotle powder and the salsa was hard to describe, but it was not what American's call salsa.
Ordered a side of pico de gallo (which was an additional fee) and this is what I got. Now this was definitely more like salsa and was quite yummy!
Thought I'd try a margarita and this is what I got. It was in a glass the size of a martini glass and cost $14. Oh how I longed for an $8 fishbowl margarita from El Maguey!
So disappointing! Well I would say you have thoroughly given the Mexican a fair try. Unfortunately they did not live up to your standards! Those 'chips and salsa' look so sad. Neat to hear about all the differences at their restaurants compared to ours!
ReplyDeleteSounds like Mexican will be one of the first things you have when you get back to the States. :) That salsa doesn't even look like salsa. Does it taste anything like salsa, (how we know it to taste), at all?
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