Picadillo: A dish spiced with chopped or ground meat with chilies, raisins
and onions.
Quesadilla: A flour tortilla folded over sliced cheese and grilled.
Sope: A small, thick, round corn cake with dimpled edges, topped with a
spicy meat mixture and crumbled cheese.
Taco: A corn tortilla folded around anything and eaten with the hands.
Tacos de pescado, or "fish tacos," are a specialty of Mazatlán.
Tamales: Cornmeal dough wrapped in a cornhusk and steamed. They are
sometimes stuffed with corn, olives, pork, or turkey and quite spicy.
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