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The most popular tacos in the US are birria

By Eloísa Carmona - 2021-11-29T09:01:08Z
Living in Mexico means having a wide variety of tacos available: suadero, pastor, carnitas, barbacoa... our taco gastronomic offer is so good that it crosses borders, and thus, birria tacos have become the most popular in the United States.Brought to the northern country by two brothers, José and Jesús Moreno, Birria-Landia started in Los Angeles and in the fall of 2019, arrived in New York, in the Queens neighborhood, in a food truck.In no time, these tacos with a menu offering only four dishes flooded Instagram, and even the New York Times, which rarely pays attention to food trucks, awarded them two stars in a review.These birria tacos are made by José, who takes the morning shift to prepare the meat and cook them, while Jesús takes care of the service in the afternoon and part of the early morning.José explains that in Los Angeles, these tacos are very popular, so when he returned to New York, he decided to make them himself; otherwise, he wouldn't eat them, because there was no offering of this type of tacos in the Big Apple.For practicality, the birria in Birria-Landia tacos is made with beef, unlike the one made in its place of origin, which is usually made with lamb meat, but José seasons it with the precise spices to give it the flavor of Jalisco.The four dishes offered by Birria-Landia are tacos, mulitas, tostadas, and consomé, and the way to eat the tacos is by dipping them in it, of course.The Moreno brothers confess that the most important thing about their tacos is that they make them with love, so they bring a little piece of Mexico to New York, in case one day you find yourself there, missing birria.