We left very full and happy, nice people too.
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Wife and kid will be there soon.
So, tried it out and it was a bit of a mixed bag. The enchiladas verdes were indeed pretty good, but the chilaquiles rojos weren’t very authentic, although quite edible all the same. Service was really slow (hopefully just growing pains), and portions were small considering the prices. The consensus of all my fellow diners were that the place probably won’t last very long. Anyway, I don’t regret giving it a try.
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Our service was quite good, but there was only one other table at the time and we both had soup which was of course ready and filled some time. My wife’s tacos came pretty quickly after she finished the soup, my enchiladas shortly after. Pacing was good for us.
Agree, the portions could be larger for the price, but I couldn’t eat any more after the plate of enchiladas, the soup, extra tortillas, and the flan. The set is a little bit better value prop.
Agree, unfortunately I don’t think they will last long as the market demand just probably isn’t there at these prices regardless of how good the service or food might be. I’ll be pulling for them though.
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How were the beans? That’s my gauge for good Mexican restaurants.
I enjoyed the bean soup very much and told myself I wouldn’t eat the beans on the enchiladas plate…but I did.
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Saw this sign
Jalapeño Bros Tex-Mex 哈辣兄弟 美墨廚房
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It’s a big disappointment. Twinkeys across the street is still better (some days)
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Tenochtitlan closed?
Now Taco Toro?
Viva Mexico food truck nearby? I heard somewhere this is a food truck but don’t know.
I wonder how difficult it is to open a Mexican restaurant. I have quite a passion for Mexican food. I think you can actually reproduce a lot of the right flavors using locally available ingredients instead of insisting on specific seasoning (for example a mix of oregano and cilantro can get pretty close to epazote).
Additionally, by hand mashing guacamole and refried beans you can radically improve the quality of these staples (something local Mexican restaurants utterly fail to recognize, using machines to mash which creates an awful uniformity).
I’m no chef but I think it’d be pretty fun to try to open one especially since there doesn’t seem to be a very big Market here for Mexican food (which just means less competition).
I guess the hard part is finding a good Mexican chef. (And also the funding since I’m just a broke English teacher)
I think opening it is not the biggest problem. That would be keeping it in business!
Guy
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this guy its the best reference about Mexican food in Taiwan
Today I discovered that MASA has a new-to-me branch very close to Zhongshan MRT station - certainly a more convenient location for me, and quite likely for many others as well.
台北市中山區中山北路一段140巷9號
Website: https://masatongan.oddle.me/zh_TW
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I visit both without bias 
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Is the quality at the two branches roughly the same?
Guy
I’ve yet to detect a difference, but I do find myself near the original more often.
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It’s this place better than eddy’s cantina in tianmu?
I unfortunately haven’t been to Eddy’s in a few years (I find getting into Tianmu annoying). But I’d say equal in quality, yet different. MASA is very much a taco place - eight or nine different flavors with corn tortillas, you order three or four for your lunch, and that’s about it on the menu apart from a handful of side dishes. Last time I went to Eddy’s, they were more with flour tortillas (burritos etc.), not so much with corn tortillas, and a bigger range on the menu.
I’d say they complement each other quite well. Except that the Zhongshan MASA is beside an MRT station I regularly go through, the other MASA branch is in a part of town I occasionally have reason to go to, and Eddy’s is in a part of town I have almost no other reason to visit.
It made total sense for Eddy’s to move from Danshui to Tianmu, but man I miss having that restaurant a fifteen-minute walk away!
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Yes. Masa is cult following better and different.
I remember traveling all the way to Danshui for Eddy’s years ago. Then they moved to Tianmu which is closer to me now, and I haven’t even gone once. Yup, getting into Tianmu is annoying even when good Mexican food is beckoning.
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