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[–] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] guy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

There's over 30 Mexican restaurant results for my city at 1% the population of Tokyo. Sounds like it's pretty lacking to me

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago

Tokyo is fucking huge, dude

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That’s one Mexican restaurant for every 1.1 million people