American Mexican foods

El Trito is a restaurant chain, mainly in California, and there are locations in Texas and Oregon. There is a location in Torrance city where the service team in USA had farewell party for me when I was leaving from USA. Coco’s serves El Trito in Japan. Popular big size Burrito in USA was modified in Texas state, so it is called TexMex food. If a Mexican food were modified in USA, it would be called Amex, if in California, would be CaMex? :-p
I have visited El Trito in Nanba Osaka at last since I was told by my friend. It was noon time on Saturday but there’s no other guest. I wondered if it was opened. There was a chef who looked like Mexican.
There was variety of popular foods on the menu so we can enjoy from the appetizer to desert. We selected very standard foods, Tortilla soup, Tacos, pork and shrimp Fajita.
They were pretty good taste and I can recommend this restaurant without any concern. But I felt they were little bit mild taste than my expectation. For example, I did not feel any flavor of Cilantro (Coriander). And the volume of the dishes was surprisingly low. The fajita in the picture was for two persons but it was less than one person’s in USA.
When we were checking at casher, there was manager so I commented frankly. He told us his war story. He worked for training at a El Trito in Long Beach for one year, and he replicated everything when the first restaurant opened in Tokyo. Guest opinion was almost 50/50. It was spoken very highly for perfect reproduced them in Japan. But related ingredients are expensive in Japan so the price of foods was expensive, also the volume of foods was too much for Japanese people, finally settled down in the present taste and volume. Salsa can be taken out though it is not promoted.