Phil C - 1-31-2013 at 07:22 PM
O.K. anybody have any good ones? We'll be spending a couple of days there next month and would like to have a heads up on some reasturants. Come on
Gypsy Jan, I know you have some in your pocket! Also a good hotel close to the chinesca? (spelling?)
bajacalifornian - 1-31-2013 at 07:27 PM
Can only mean you're coming. We'll be waiting for you.
Here Ya Go
Gypsy Jan - 1-31-2013 at 07:34 PM
History and recs:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/790622
And from the esteemed streetgourmetla.com blog authored by Bill Esparza, a weekend guide to Mexicali:
http://www.streetgourmetla.com/search?q=mexicali
Maderita - 1-31-2013 at 09:38 PM
When I was a kid we went to "Alley 19" restaurant in Mexicali for Chinese food. I don't remember whether I liked the food, but I do recall my mouth on
fire from a pepper! That must have been in the early 60s. Alley 19 opened in 1928 and closed in 2001.
Scroll down to the section "Mexicali, a historic Chinese outpost" on this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatowns_in_Latin_America
Wow, you have many choices! "Currently there are more than 80 Chinese restaurants from small coffee shops (cafés de chinos) to huge 750 occupancy
dining rooms."
jeans - 2-1-2013 at 12:49 AM
Quite a few years ago we ended up at a Chinese restaurant in Mexicali because it seemed like a good bet for the vegetarian with us.
Ordering a vegetarian meal might have gone smoother had they spoken English....or Spanish... and we didn't speak Chinese.
DENNIS - 2-1-2013 at 07:06 AM
Something to read while you're ordering Chun Kun. [? sp]
http://chinese-mexico.blogspot.mx/2007_02_01_archive.html
http://chinese-mexico.blogspot.mx/2007/03/mexicalis-chinatow...
MICK - 2-1-2013 at 08:11 AM
When ever we get a chance we go to Hunan's restaurant not fancy but good food. It is on the south side of town on carreterra federal just south of
lazaro Card##as just north of the home depot. There are a couple of Chinese restaurants there.
. We also have a couple of favorites south if you are going to be doing any traveling around the area. let me know both on Hwy 4
Mick