Takorea

With yesterday being Cinco de Mayo, we obviously were not going to let the holiday pass without getting into the Mexican spirit and made our second visit to an awesome Mexican restaurant here in Daejeon, Takora.

The restaurant is owned by a Mexican man who is a very welcome and gracious host. The food is all authentic Mexican recipes as well.

Enchiladas, quesadillas, fajitas, tacos, burritos…

They also offer a variety of Mexican beers, frozen margaritas, pina coladas, sangria and other Korean spirits as well.

On our last visit there, I tried the chicken tacos and the sangria and was delighted with my meal. However, I definitely had food envy of Brian’s chicken fajitas, so I knew what I was getting last night before we even got to the restaurant!

We both ordered the chicken fajitas which come with chicken cooked with peppers and onions, two small tortillas and refried beans.

I love that the tortillas already have cheese melted inside for you!

After piling up two fajitas with meat, peppers & beans, I still had to finish off the rest of my chicken and peppers tortilla-less.

Overall, the perfect sized fajita dish. I was left satisfied and not overly stuffed like I normally am after a visit to a Mexican restaurant. Maybe the fact that they don’t have complimentary chips and salsa on the tables helped with that!

Keeping in the festive mood, while waiting for our dinner, I sipped on a lime margarita because, well, when in Rome…I mean when in Mexico…errr, when in Korea, yea, that’s it! 😉

And since one of the deals of the day was 1 + 1 margaritas (that’s Korean terminology for BOGO or “Buy 1, Get 1”), I obviously had another while enjoying dinner. Who passes up a free margarita ON Cinco de Mayo?! Isn’t that like sac-religious or dissing the Mexican Gods or something?!

Like I said, the last visit to Takorea, I had sangria (which was a great fruity, red wine variety) but the margaritas on this trip were really good as well. Great flavoring and they had just a touch of finely crushed ice instead of being a complete frozen concoction. Yum!

In the end, an awesome Cinco de Mayo celebration in South Korea! Thanks Takorea, we will be seeing you again soon, I’m sure!

Question:

How did you celebrate your Cinco de Mayo?