…Metro Detroit (or in Michigan)?
Tacos de trompo are a Mexican dish that are made of marinated pork where the meat is sliced then skewered and layered on the vertical skewer in the shape of an inverted cone, thus the name “trompo” or ‘spinning top” to the be charbroiled. The meat is sliced off the “trompo” and put in tortillas and then served.
Taste is great, but I can’t find anywere where this is served in the Michigan are other closer areas.
Please help…!
Best reply by gg:
This is called tacos al pastor.
It is hard to find in the usa.
Try to find a meat market in the inner city hispanic areas, and you will find tacos al pastor.
It is nice to have from the “trompo”, but many restaurants make theirs by grilling the meat.
Sometimes you have to settle for that if you don’t live in a border town.
I live south of Kansas City, and we go to an inner city meat market here…they do pastor one day a week. We also get tacos al pastor the plain grilled way at several restaurants.
It is one of my favorite dishes, so I understand your desperation in trying to find it.
Edit: I must add that if you can figure out where the hispanic bus-lines stop as they travel to and from Mexico, you can often find a little place that has a trompo. I’m referring to the lines that carry illegals through the usa. They are all over the place, often hispanic social centers, or out of the way half-abandoned parking lots. It might take some investigating, but if the goal is to get some real pastor, you’ll get some good stuff that way. Very few american mexican restaurants sell that stuff, and if they do, they charge too much $$ for it.
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