Some of our Mexican friends have told us that the best tortillas are the hand-made ones. I was skeptical--same ingredients, just made by hand instead of by a machine. But it didn't matter because we had never come across a tortillería that sold hand-made ones. That has now changed. This is what we found a couple blocks from our house--in a direction we generally don't walk:
The machine-made tortillas are 12 pesos. The white, yellow or blue hand-made ones (cooked on a comal) are 17 pesos. So we bought half a kilo of the yellow ones.
Here's a shot of the woman making them:
They were sooooo much better than the machine ones--tender and delicate with a more subtle corn flavor. We're hooked!
The machine ones.
We bought some totopos too:
Can't wait to go back for more.
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