Singaporean TACO NIGHT!

It seems that I posted three times on my blog and I abandoned it, but it’s not true. I know that this is just my fourth post and that I didn’t write for more than 20 days, but there’s a good reason for that: I traveled to Asia!

One of my best friends is studying his master in Singapore, so when he was admitted, he invited me to visit him. I’m such a good friend that I booked my flight right away (like 9 months in advance!).

Apparently, he really enjoys eating everyday at the food courts (he doesn’t cook at all), but he asked me to cook some Mexican food for him and some of his friends.  So we had a TACO NIGHT!

I’m used to find ingredients for Mexican food in Europe, but adapting everything to Asia was something new for me. Luckily, we got some stuff at a little Mexican shop and with some imagination we could buy at the supermarket the ingredients to cook: cochinita pibil (pork marinated in achiote, a sweet, slightly peppery red sauce made from annatto seed), frijoles refritos (fried beans), rajas con crema (Poblano chili and in this case some green pepper, onions and corn with cream), pollo con chipotle (this one is not very typical but was the only thing that we could make with the ingredients we had, because I forgot the tomatoes), salsa verde and guacamole (the avocados were not very good so we had to add some chopped tomatoes that Moncho bought on the last minute).

I was afraid that the food wouldn’t be good, but I believe all of us enjoyed it!

I think that I should write recipes, so here is how to prepare the guacamole:

Ingredients: ½ finely chopped big onion, 3 avocados, 1 lemon (or lime), salt, pepper and coriander.

Just mash everything and eat it in your tacos or with nachos!

Sorry for the pictures, they’re not very good!

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Pareciera que solo escribí tres veces en mi blog y lo abandoné, pero no es verdad. Yo sé que es solo la cuarta actualización y que no he escrito por más de 20 días pero hay una buena razón para esto: viajé a Asia!

Uno de mis mejores amigos está estudiando su máster en Singapur, así que cuando fue admitido, me invitó a visitarlo. Soy tan buena amiga que reservé mi vuelo en ese mismo momento (¡como nueve meses antes!).

Aparentemente, él realmente disfruta de comer todos los días en los food courts (es que no cocina casi), pero me pidió que cocinara algo de comida mexicana para él y unos amigos. ¡Así que tuvimos una TACO NIGHT!

Estoy acostumbrada a encontrar los ingredientes para la comida mexicana en Europa, pero adaptar todo en Asia era algo nuevo para mí. Afortunadamente, compramos algunas cosas en una tiendita mexicana y con un poco de imaginación conseguimos el resto de los ingredientes en el supermercado para preparar: cochinita pibil, frijoles refritos, rajas con crema, pollo con chipotle, salsa verde y guacamole.

Tenía un poco de miedo de que la comida no fuera buena del todo, pero creo que todos la disfrutamos.

Perdón por las fotos, no son buenas del todo.