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Mi Mero Mole
Mi Mero Mole was a Mexican restaurant with two locations in Portland, Oregon, United States. Description The restaurant served Mexican cuisine such as Burrito, burritos, guisados, Mole (sauce), moles, Quesadilla, quesadillas, Taco, tacos, and Tortilla, tortillas. The restaurant also served breakfast on weekdays, as of 2019. History The original Mi Mero Mole opened on Division Street in Southeast Portland, Oregon, southeast Portland's Richmond, Portland, Oregon, Richmond neighborhood in 2011. Owner Nick Zukin opened a second location in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood in 2014. The Division restaurant closed in 2017, and the Old Town Chinatown restaurant closed on July 3, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Zukin had estimated that business was reduced by as much as 80 percent during the pandemic. The restaurant was operating via pickup and delivery, as of April 2020. The restaurant offered "all you can eat" tacos; the record for most eaten was 14, as of 2016. Zukin received so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Cuisine
Mexican cuisine consists of the cooking cuisines and traditions of the modern country of Mexico. Its earliest roots lie in Mesoamerican cuisine. Its ingredients and methods begin with the first agricultural communities such as the Olmec and Maya who domesticated maize, created the standard process of maize nixtamalization, and established their foodways. Successive waves of other Mesoamerican groups brought with them their own cooking methods. These included: the Teotihuacanos, Toltec, Huastec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Otomi, Purépecha, Totonac, Mazatec, Mazahua, and Nahua. With the Mexica formation of the multi-ethnic Triple Alliance (Aztec Empire), culinary foodways became infused (Aztec cuisine). Today's food staples native to the land include corn (maize), turkey, beans, squash, amaranth, chia, avocados, tomatoes, tomatillos, cacao, vanilla, agave, spirulina, sweet potato, cactus, and chili pepper. Its history over the centuries has resulted in regional cuisines based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
