►SUBSCRIBE for 2 new videos per week: http://bit.ly/MarkWiensSubscribe ►T-shirts available now: https://migrationology.com/store/ From Oaxaca, we flew to Mexico City, and to begin our Mexico City food tour! We landed at Benito Juárez International Airport and I had arranged for a driver to meet us at the airport to take us first to eat barbacoa – one of the ultimate of all Mexican meat dishes, and then on to go to the Aztec Pyramids of Teotihuacan. We drove straight to a small town in the mountains called Texcoco. The hills around Texcoco are known for their barbacoa, Mexican style of barbecue. Even when I was in the US, I remember seeing little hole in the wall restaurant serving “Barbacoa estilo Texcoco,” Texcoco style Mexican barbacoa – so it’s famous for this dish. El Pica I – The restaurant I wanted to try was El Pica I, and even in this small mountain town, the restaurant was absolutely bumping – there was a meat party happening. You could smell the aroma of the lamb as we drove in. You choose a table, and you walk around and self serve your food. There are many Mexican foods to eat, but the real reason you come here is for the lamb barbacoa – the most insane lamb pit bbq! The meat is cooked in underground clay ovens, and when they open an oven it looks like they are opening a mine. The lamb barbacoa was some of the most tender meat I’ve ever experienced.
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