Mexican Food

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1) How does he describe chiles en nogada?
Healthy
Historical
Easy to make
2) What does Diego recommend for Australia?
Fish
Strawberries
Both
3) What does Diego say about tacos?
He prefers spicy tacos.
It is like fast food.
He makes them often.
4) What type of tortillas does he eat?
Round and soft ones
The ones that stand up
Only corn ones
Rebecca: So, Diego, I hear that Mexico has some really great food and that you love to cook. What's your favorite food in Mexico?

Diego: My favorite food in Mexico is chiles en nogada. Chiles means pepper and this is a very traditional Mexican dish because our flag is green, white and red, so this plate, the peppers are green, and then it has a white sauce on top of it and then it has a grain sort of fruit. It's a red fruit and it's representing our flag so it's very... It's a very historical plate in Mexico. It's very famous.

Rebecca: Oh, wow. I don't think we have anything like that in Australia. It'd be hard to get something that you'd eat that's blue and red and white.

Diego: Blue and red.

Rebecca: Yeah. Maybe fish.

Diego: Fish with strawberries.

Rebecca: I don't think that would work.

Diego: Yeah.

Rebecca: So what about tacos? Do you eat them a lot?

Diego: Yeah, we eat them a lot. Tacos is like Mexican fast food, so there's a lot of tacos stands in Mexico, and you can have them in all sorts of ways: with cheese, with onions, with meat, with different sauces, like green sauce, hot sauce, red sauce. Yeah.

Rebecca: Do the tortillas... do they stand up or are they round ones that always fall over when you go to eat them?

Diego: They're the round ones and they're also soft so they're not corn chips.

Rebecca: Like the ones we get.

Diego: Yes.

Rebecca: Not true Mexican.