Interestingly enough, I have an aversion to hotdog carts and most street food in Canada.  Sorry, a guy in the park selling tubes filled with mystery street meat is not my thing.  For some reason, when I travel street food is what I love to try.  In my opinion, Mexico has some of the best street food going.  Day or night, you’ll always find something yummy to eat on the street.  You will never go hungry in this country (unless you’re super picky or a vegetarian).  One tasty offering is called tacos de canasta which literally means “tacos from a basket”. 

You can see these vendors all over town from about 10AM to 12PM (or until their supply runs out) and you’ll know who they are because they are usually armed with a blue cooler or two of tacos.  At first it seems weird to buy tacos from a cooler on the street and your spidey sense tingles with the thought of bacteria festering inside the cooler but once you bit into this tasty treat, all is forgotten!  

I have found the tastiest tacos de canasta are served outside the state university near the school of medicine.  Eating street food in front of a building filled with doctors and aspiring doctors–how much safer can it be?  The tacos are warm tasty and the tortillas (corn or flour) are softened by the steamy inside of the cooler. They are filled with everything including beans, eggs, potatoes, sausage, pork skins and chicken and run about 22 pesos for 5 tacos.  What a great deal!  It is the perfect snack to tie you over until you rush home at 2PM for dinner.  (Don also likes to call this snack second breakfast).    If you are ever in Mexico and have a hunger pang around 10AM, seek out tacos de canasta and you’ll have a spring in your step for the rest of the day!