{"id":2524,"date":"2009-05-16T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2009-05-16T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T15:30:28","slug":"chinese-mexican-food-the-chimale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/chinese-mexican-food-the-chimale\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-Mexican Food: The Chimale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Associated Press article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iYVMbyRjOQOeodQP66nnEsVQMIswD986SAA80\">Korean taco trucks in Los Angeles<\/a> mentioned something in passing that caught my eye: &#8220;Chimales,&#8221; Chinese-Mexican tamales stuffed with kung pao chicken or Chinese barbecue pork. They are topped off with a side of pico de gallo and sour cream.<\/p>\n<p>The chimales are made by <a href=\"http:\/\/DonChowTacos.com\">DonChowTacos.com,<\/a> whose motto is &#8220;Mexican and Chinese food get together.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, zhongzi, the bamboo leaf-wrapped rice things are sometimes called &#8220;Chinese tamales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the other place to get Mexican Chinese food is Mexicali, which is like the Chinese food capital of Mexico (with >100 Chinese restaurants in a fairly midsized city). Mexicali is across the border from Calexico, Calif. It&#8217;s about a four-hour drive from Los Angeles and two hours from San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>They serve essentially fajita-cized Chinese food. And instead of those crispy chow mein noodles with duck sauce, you get&#8230;tortilla chips.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing they have: a lot of chop suey, egg foo yung (or &#8220;foo yung huevo&#8221;) and chow mein. Chinese food in Mexico is like American Chinese food from the 1950s that never got updated, but with a south of the border twist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Associated Press article on the Korean taco trucks in Los Angeles mentioned something in passing that caught my eye: &#8220;Chimales,&#8221; Chinese-Mexican tamales stuffed with kung pao chicken or Chinese barbecue pork. They are topped off with a side of pico de gallo and sour cream. The chimales are made by DonChowTacos.com, whose motto is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,10],"tags":[122,121,76],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-chinese-food","category-chop-suey","tag-chimales","tag-chinese-mexican","tag-fusion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-EI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}