Mexican Cuisine

Unbelievable! Mexico City was as planned, one of the most affordable places to visit. Entire meals that included appetizers and drinks totaled to less than 5USD! And let me tell you... each meal was incredible. Here I'll list the best of... for the next time you're in mexico city.

1. Chilaquiles

It's a simple dish of tortillas cooked and topped with salsa/mole, cheese, and refried beans (sometimes other goodies too). Traditionally the "hangover cure", I ate this sucker a lot just because it's so darn good!

2. Tacos el Pastor


According to wiki:
Usually pork, it is marinated over one or two days with a blend of different chili peppers, spices and herbs (such as adobo), and then slowly cooked on a vertical rotisserie called a Trompo (lit: spinning top), often with a pineapple on top.^[3] The juice from the pineapple contains an enzyme called bromelain, which breaks down protein and makes the meat very tender. When ready, the meat is then thinly sliced off the spit with a large knife.
Wow... just wow the lightest meat with just a touch of pineapple that is again only a buck or two just amazing!

3. Pozole This traditional Aztec soup in my opinion trumps any other soup in my opinion. It was traditionally made from human meat but obviously now it is substituted with other meats. It's this crazy mix of cabbage, oregano, radish, and lime. Aldo's grandmother made the one I tasted and it was the perfect combination of tastes I still remember it mmm.

4. Churros
Thanks to my guidebook Marketa and I found ourselves at this awesome churro place where we took a break to have delicious churros and Mexican hot chocolate. I'm drooling just thinking of how good they were. The milk also in the Mexican chocolate was so thick and delicious too. Probably the richest milk chocolate I've ever had and trust me... I am a hot chocolate expert!

5. FRUITS
Mangos... Tuna... Watermelon... Limes
WOW!!!... Any street corner will have a vendor selling fruits like these and they are the most incredible tasting in the world! Maybe I'm just used to America's engineered fruits and vegetables but these were obscenely delicious!!! aaaa

Hola Amigos

Hello from Mexico City! It has only been officially three days and I think I am in love. (I will use zero contractions because I cannot seem to find the right buttons on this darn keyboard).

Things I will rave and dedicate entire blog entries to in the future

1. foods... chilaquila... tacos el pasor... churros... bosole?... the milk... the fruit... gaaaa
2. the metro... so clean... so quick...so safe... IDIOT proof and great great design... oh and it costs 2 pesos per ride... yes les than 20 cents to get from one side of mexico city to the next... WOW
3. Centro Historico... absolutely beautiful
4. Coyocaun... beware all my designs will reference coyocaun from now on haha... I stopped at every house to sit and drool
5. EVERY church and park...
6. the streets styled after champs elysses
7. the hostel + the people I have become friends with
8. the social classes and clashes
9. Being asian in a city of brown
10. Torre Latinamericano... the most outrageous views of the city
11. Frida + Diego ... yea yea yea
12. Zocalo

I guess this is more a reminder to myself... I will be waking up in six hours or so to climb Teotihuacan and the Angel of Guadeloupe

ooo and best of all I saw the koreans and gays that I was supposed to in Zona Rosa ha

Buenas Noches

Mexico CIty

I'm off in a few hours to Mexico City and cannot wait to come back/report my findings. I can't wait to see the pyramids and Centro Historico. It'll be my first experience really exploring a city alone and hopefully it'll be a good start to my solo world tour. Hasta luego? Wow not a word of spanish in my vocabulary...hope I get back in one piece.

Viva Mexico!

Tom Shannon anti-grav sculptures

I thought kinetic sculpture was intense until I saw this guy on Ted. Not one of the most pleasant people to watch (he gasps for air every three seconds when he speaks), but nothing less than awesome. Like Jansen, art is science and science is art. At first glance all I see is "cool shit". It's even cooler when you see some of these floating about but when you hear what's he's doing with all this is even cooler. He's envisioned floating islands in the middle of the ocean with their own source of fresh water... or cities unlike those of archigram that can move from location to location replicating their environments smoothly. Now he's working on pendulums to create art.

Don't take my word for it hear him speak!

more art


his site

David Sedaris

I met him.

What a week huh? Davey was promoting the release of the soft-cover of When You're Engulfed in Flames at Strand today... so of course I patiently stood in the rain for an hour or so to hear that dawwling voice. He read some entries from his diary and of course the very white, very liberal, very hipster crowd was tickled silly. Sedaris was super patient with each person he met and made small talk every time ... handed out condoms... told people to have sex (but only in the butt b.c. he doesn't want to be held responsible for people l0sing their virginities... "it doesn't count if you can't see it")... We talked about Chip Kidd and he wrote that note for me. Hilarious to the last moment... for Gabi's he wrote "i'm glad you're alive". Wish I could say more but exhausted


I don't know how I should dissect what he wrote... i mean was he so bored of me? can he NOT spell?... w.e. love him

Robert Venturi

I met him.

Backstory: Drew is working for Bob and Denise for the summer and I had the pleasure of helping him out this summer and in turn getting to stay over at the Venturis and even having the opportunity to have lunch with the couple. WOW.

yea yea he's brilliant ... Anyone can tell you that so that's why I'm here to try to explain what an awesome man Bob in MY eyes. I saw him in the bluff... cross-legged and watching Golden Girls, Bob was still extremely intimidating...absolutely hilarious too. From mumbling obscenities about annoying people... to apologizing for the wholesome neighborhood... he is such a likable guy. Well I guess architects can have souls too! Also winner of cutest couple.

And Drew can tell you how far my jaw dropped when I walked into their beautiful home. I barely breathed. Hmm lunch with them was probably the quietest I've been in my whole life. I didn't want to say anything dumb... so I didn't say anything. Dumb huh.