Sopas de Fideos o Arroz
( Soup with Noodles or Rice )
Mariscos...........................................................................$14.95
Camarones.......................................................................$13.95
Langosta..........................................................................$19.95
Crab.................................................................................$19.95
Salchichon..........................................................................$8.95
Jamon.................................................................................$8.95
Pollo...................................................................................$8.95
Res.....................................................................................$8.95
orgullodemexico wrote:Everyone seems to think all Mexican dinners are accompanied by rice and beans.
I grew up eating another staple which I never see on menus and that,s fideo which is angel hair pasta browned and cooked like mexican rice. I wonder why the lack of prescence on menus?
Also I would love to find a favorite dish Sopa de fideo which is the pasta in a chicken broth with chunks of chicken. The final dish was in between a soup and a stew.
Thoughts?
orgullodemexico wrote:Everyone seems to think all Mexican dinners are accompanied by rice and beans.
I grew up eating another staple which I never see on menus and that,s fideo which is angel hair pasta browned and cooked like mexican rice. I wonder why the lack of prescence on menus?
Also I would love to find a favorite dish Sopa de fideo which is the pasta in a chicken broth with chunks of chicken. The final dish was in between a soup and a stew.
Thoughts?
JeffB wrote:In one of Antonius's cooking threads, I noted the lack of sopa seca in town. Now, plain old chicken sopa de fideos sometimes shows up as the free starter, e.g., at LaLo's. Not enough reason to go there, however.
Amata wrote:Oye, Orgullo, I have a source for sopa de fideo for you: Taqueria de la Casa del Pueblo, just south(west) of the Pilsen grocery store La Casa del Pueblo. You may have visited this spot when you were looking for tamales last Christmas, I can't remember, but for others who haven't been there I'll just point out that the restaurant is set up as a cafeteria/steam table kind of place. One of the items available is sopa de fideo, and I got a small container to go yesterday, for $2.
Antonius and I actually had the sopa this morning for breakfast, and thought it was pretty good. (Picture to follow soon.)
La Casa del Pueblo restaurant has an impressively extensive menu -- you don't always see huevos tibios 'soft boiled eggs' as one of the breakfast choices in Mexican places around town, for example.
Thanks for posting such an interesting (as always) query. Now, what place has those costillas al carbon...?
Amata
La Casa del Pueblo Restaurant
1834 S. Blue Island
Chicago
312 421-4664
open daily 6 am to 8 pm.
orgullodemexico wrote:The restaurant you referred to, showing the platter of frijoles, carne asada and fideo - Does it still exist?
OdM