Will’s Food Diary

I came here because I was “complaining” about the lack of good mexican food places in my repitoire. GRACIE recommnded this place so of course I had to go. I biked here and I think maybe 10 more trips I’ll get used to the incline of the brookyln/wiliamsburg/manhattan bridge

ok so PREFACE- its all the same tortilla

Tortilla – 3.7/5

so its like a slightly seasoned toritlla and it’s cooked well. its not too chewy or dry. it has a little bit of give to it when you bite and it holds the juice and meat pretty well. When you bite into it it cinches and breaks off easily. so its pretty easy to eat. its not AMAZING in the flavour department but logistically it holds the filling so thats nice. good size too.

like all the meat is high quality and tastes p nice and its honestly just a matter of preference for leanness vs fattyness and the website describes it pretty well. for me I am not afraid of eating fatty stuff so it was all very much doable for me.

only took 1 photo

Buche Lengua Sesadilla Cabeza PaPaDa

SO the cripsy one in the middle is the sesadilla

BRAIN – Sesadilla – 4/5

Nice crispyness to the taco. The brain is giving beef paste. It was honestly pretty hard for me to get past this is brain due to my fear of contracting brain related diseases (classmate of mine got prions and died in their sleep – does that count as trauma dumping?) DESPITE the constant dread the taco was pretty good. Its not super heavy in the seasoning but its got a little bit of a umami and idk cooked ground beef flavour like thats a horrible way to describe it and I should do better but honestly I am just going to acknowledge my fault here. something something something joke about getting head

Lengua – Tongue – 4.5/5

So the bottom right one is the lengua

juicy / a lot of meat / tortilla is like slightly above avg

pretty lean but not dry at all

PAPADA – JOWL – 4.5/5

Top Left is the papada –

juicy / a lot of meat / tortilla is like slightly above avg

not as fatty as I thought it was going to be

Cabeza – 4.5/5 – Face

bottom left

juicy / a lot of meat / tortilla is like slightly above avg

Buche – Stomach – 4.5/5

top right

juicy / a lot of meat / tortilla is like slightly above avg

pretty nice blend fatty/leanness

Price – 2.5/5

Bro the reviews all say CHEAP tacos jesus christ its not cheap at all. A GOOD TACO with FIXINGS and SAUCE is like 3$ max but I guess with tariffs or whatever 5$ per taco is cheap now? wtf. These people are crazy. It was good and I’d go back but I ain’t calling this place cheap, ESPecially when there are places in brooklyn that sell tacos that are comparable for 1-2$ less.

Experience – 4/5

FAST service – Friendly staff – FAST turnover – HAS a bathroom – FRee water (bro the places in NY that don’t give water astound me)

Can park your bike in a lot of places here.

I will probably be coming back sooner rather than later

Ok So i am trying to bike as often as possible whenever I can because I feel like it’ll increase my cardiovascular strength and then I will never need to buy a car as long as I live here. Goal is to be able to do the bridge into or out of manhattan and not complain once but ooowee do I just love to say something.

Overall mentally I think I am doing p well but maybe its because I stopped really caring about my EVALUATIONS and just assume I’ll do well. kind of scary I can’t imagine the pitfall I’ll go into if I end up doing poorly but I am going to try to go for the expect my hard work to pay off route and see how that goes. what’s the worse that can happen. I mean I was pretty fine before I changed mindset I was mainly only upset that one day of rotation and it wasn’t that long.

Surgery rotation is done for GENERAL surgery and it is actually so interesting how far I have come along. I honestly think that 4 out of the 4 residents I worked with actually enjoy my presence and we make jokes and laugh during rotations and even have made some inside jokes so that is cool. It’s kind of funny I was so worried about being personable during rotations since the grades just seem like a VIBE CHECK but so far in 2 out of 2 of my rotations I feel like I learned so much, made some genuine connections, and had a good time. I got really lucky with my rotations though. I am not excited for pediatric surgery at downstate. I didn’t do my onboarding I hope no one gets on my BALLs for that.

Also I am still going to do the comics thing I will probably just post them as I do the food reviews if I can’t figure out how to open another page/column later lol.