Tacos árabes

Mexico · Latin America

Short description: These tacos use wheat flatbread and seasoned pork cooked on a vertical spit, showing a shawarma-related lineage.
Ingredients: Soft wheat flatbread wrapped around spit-roasted spiced pork, often served with chile sauce and lime.
Cultural note: Associated with immigrant shawarma influence adapted into local street-food counters, they keep a wheat wrapper while changing the meat and seasoning.
Common misconception: They are not identical to al pastor; the wheat flatbread and seasoning set them apart.

image credit

creator:: Koffermejia
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:: Cropped and re-encoded for Gochizu to focus on the rolled wheat flatbread tacos and remove people/background clutter.