life in san diego II: el portal

[nibot]

Just around the corner from here is a fast food Mexican restaurant called El Portal. It is divine. I rarely stray from Combo #3, "Two carne asada tacos, beans, rice, and a side of corn cake":

The beverage on the left (sort of invisible) is horchata. yum! The paper bag in the upper left is corn chips.

That doesn't quite do it justice. Let's zoom in a bit.

mmmm.. good.

Just for kicks, let's compare this to the CERN Standard Breakfast from last summer:

And sometimes we splurged:

I wish I had a picture of the Dinner of Champions. Right now you can only read about it in the Camp CERN Manifesto.

Comments

[fanlain.livejournal.com]

Hmm I never had horchata (http://www.xmission.com/~dderhak/recipe/horchc.htm) - is it anywhere close to thai ice tea in taste? or more like ice milk? i might be going to san diego with hukuma in august so maybe i'll try to find some.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I've never heard of this Chufa Nut stuff.. but Mexican horchata is made from rice, and maybe some cinammon. I don't think it's too much like iced tea at all... but it's yummy! the stuff that comes from soda drink dispensers (like at El Portal) is much too sweet... usually they ladle it out of a big glass jar. You can get horchata at La Burrita in Berkeley too.