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No mexican food in japan??? OP, it's like saying theres no japanese food in Mexico... Have you ever traveled lmao?
A friend lived in Tokyo, his #1 complaint was lack of Mexican food.
A quick Google search of "Mexican Restaurants in Tokyo" brought up over 30 results in Tokyo. Hell, the other day I was watching the original Iron Chef from the 90s, and they brought in a Japanese Mexican Chef as a challenger.
There's over 30 Mexican restaurant results for my city at 1% the population of Tokyo. Sounds like it's pretty lacking to me
Tokyo is fucking huge, dude
I might have expressed myself wrong, it's not that there aren't Mexican food places at all, it's that they're much more rare than in the west (and the US specifically), and usually not great.
Plus, 30+ restaurants in a city as gigantic as Tokyo is not much at all.
There's over 30 mexican restaurants in my town of less than 30,000 people.
Tokyo is LITERALLY the biggest city in the entire world. 30ish restaurants is absolutely a needle in a haystack.
Even if it were hard to find a good restaurant nearby, Greater Tokyo is fucking HUGE! I would be shocked if you couldn't find pretty much all cuisine in or around Tokyo.
That’s one Mexican restaurant for every 1.1 million people
Had some great Mexican food in Tokyo!
I was in Japan this year and didn't see any Mexican food in the 3 major cities I visited. I'm not saying it does not exist but it's definitely not common if it does.
That also makes sense, though. Food in Japan, even the foreign food, has a specific palette it's targeting. Mexican food is extremely different from Japanese food.
Typically, any food that is introduced to a new culture is successful once it's adapted to that cultures palette. Any Mexican food being successful in Japan would likely be more akin to the Mexican/Asian fusion places we have in the States than traditional Mexican food.
It exists but it is actually quite rare.
Tangential anecdote: when I visited San Luís Potosí, I ate several meals at a place called Café Tokio. It was good but there was nothing Japanese about it beyond the name.