Umami's sorry he hasn't posted, but he's been a busy devourer of worlds (and the occasional cheese fry)! Sometimes one has to run out and grab a meal from a convenient lunchwagon . . . in this case Xtreme Tacos, parked on Punchbowl.
Now, Umami tried these once before and thought they were decent, but smallish, tacos. But he is a sucker for a sampler plate, and Xtreme Tacos has one, for $7.50.
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| Sampler Plate . . . Pretty! |
Clockwise from top: BBQ Pulled Pork (tasty, but then it's hard to screw with BBQ pork and coleslaw!), Smoked Chicken (curiously bland for something supposedly marinated in a smoked chipotle sauce), Spicy Beef (okay), Falaco (falafel in a taco . . . winner of the bunch!), and Shrimp Ceviche (pretty good).
Umami really likes the Falaco because, well, he likes falafels, and the crunch of the falafel in the tortilla is neat, and makes a compact little bite.
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| "Ignacio" is a big truck |
They also do five salsas in order, from mildest to hottest: Sweet, X, XX, XXX, and XT. Umami's tried them all and the XT isn't
that hot.
All told, it's not that there's anything wrong with any of these . . . they're all . . . fine. They're just . . . not
enough. Worth a try, but not necessarily a repeat.
Xtreme Tacos
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I'm a sucker for a sampler plate, even if it doesn't turn out... great.
ReplyDeleteThe question is, are you a chili head? 'Cause that will tell me if the XT is actually hot or not.
But yeah, usually names like that are misleading. In Japan they were always warning me that something was spicy and it turned out mild.