In the rear, a small selection of compact, almost delicate tacos.
What happens if you give your speech on carburetors and fumble or mess up your disassembly procedure, or if you suddenly misplace a key ingredient in the middle of a delicate taco-making procedure and be unable to continue?
And in fact, the goods from Zona Rosa are delicious, with standout dishes like delicate lobster tacos and a zingy tequila flan.
This trip is giving me masses of ideas to work with!" Half an hour later we pull up at Komodo, another Korean-Mexican-Asian-Californian truck, where somehow find room in our stomachs to try delicate fish and grape tacos with pickled cucumber and sesame oil and pork meatballs that are charred and crisp on the outside and pink and lightly spiced inside.
But, in addition to those scrambled eggs — fat, delicate, custard-like curds — the breakfast taco at Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co. contains crispy fried oysters and shaved bottarga (plus pickled jalapeños and chipotle mayo), and suddenly it all makes sense.
There are few pleasures more reliable in Los Angeles than the lamb barbacoa at My Taco in Highland Park: a delicate, spicy tangle of long-cooked meat crisped on hot metal, blackened at the edges, caramelized to a sweet, subtle gaminess.
At La Vega in Corona, Queens, a deli with a small room that holds a half-dozen tables, the tacos are small and delicate, subtly flavored, accompanied by a thick, spicy salsa verde.
Delicate red and green rice crêpes, for wrapping makeshift tacos, sit in the center.
Oxtail tacos at The Sound Table A contradictory delicate yet hearty bite of savory flavors, braised and shredded oxtail meat is paired with roasted leek pico and mustard.
I, of course, have had incredible tacos that barely resembled these in my lifetime, be it tender, juicy carne asada with raw onions and chopped cilantro and a squeeze of lime served on delicate, buttery flour tortillas from a truck in Los Angeles or potato-and-egg breakfast tacos with salsa verde in Texas that brought a tear to my eye.
