By RICARDO KLEMENT
Herald-Tribune Food Writer
BROWNSVILLE, TX - There's a new kind of foreign entrepreneur in town, and he's being roundly welcomed by sheltered residents not used to such things.
Say hell-o to Japanese taco trucks.
We spotted this one on N. Paredes Line Road Saturday afternoon and stopped in to chat with owner Johnny Kimodo, who told us he's been in the Rio Grande Valley only since last September. "I couldn't get a job," he said in crisp Japanese. "Like all new Americans, I looked around and found a niche. Japanese taco is good taco."
A steady flow of customers angled in from the street and a few even sat down in plastic lawnchairs Kimodo said he bought by the dozen at a local fleamarket. Said one customer in Spanish, a thin woman in her mid-30s with three rowdy kids in tow, "I really expected Japanese tacos. You know, sushi or something like that. But, no, I got fajita tacos."
Seated behind her were three city cops and two county deputies, all chomping away at platefuls of tacos and what appeared to be Navy beans. They kept their faces to the food, however, and declined to speak to this reporter.
In Johnny Kimodo's future? "A fleet of taco trucks!" he said loudly in his native tongue.
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5 comments:
The women on the "City's Lonely Hearts Club" picture look interesting, the drinks look better, not that I prefer alcohol than women. Six women and not one single guy. Could you tell me the name of the bar??? Or is it confidential?? Better still how about a close up. The second beauty from the left looks very enticing. Please don't tell me they are related to one your co-workers.
That particular woman, reader, is a former girlfriend of our crime writer, Ron Mexico. In fact, she started the club after Ron, well, went in another direction and married that acrobat. This group meeting, we're told, took place at a cafe in Edinburg known far and wide as The Moonlight Cafe...-Editor
I think she is too cute to be sitting with other females, when here in harlingen, there are plenty of guys. I am sure, we could buy all the drinks her heart desires.
Ron Mexico, that sounds like a made out last name. I still think she is a pretty good looking gal. Just out of courisity, when was the picture taken???
By the way let me re-phrase myself all those gals look pretty. The beauty second from the left just looks prettier.
As they say in westerns, " 'ppears you're smitten with this schoolmarm." Ron Mexico changed his name when he was a teenager. His real name is Ron Nicaragua, but he broke with that country's dictator Daniel Ortega and subsequently moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where a Canadian woman convinced him to make the name change. He tells us he's happier with the Mexico connection...- Editor
There is nothing wrong with selling tacos, regardless of the kind, bean and egg, potatoes and egg, fajita tacos.
But what was the purpose of the diagram of a taco, with Japanese dialect written all over the place??
Mr. Editor, don't they eat horse meat, and elephant meat in the East.
How did you all know you were eating Texas beef?? And does Brownsville allow vendors to sell food from vehicles?? Were they really that tasty???
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