In Mexico, arroz con leche ("rice with milk") might be served as a chilled pudding, but it's not uncommon for the cooked rice to be thinned with milk, sweetened with sugar and cinnamon, and offered as a hot beverage. At La Guera, it's dispensed from a large Thermos-like container near the door ($1.50).
With time to linger, I added a tamale, Oaxaquena style ($1.50), which wrapped a fat wad of lighter-than-usual corn dough around a slender core of slightly spicy chicken, and a pair of compact tacos ($1.25 each) Also shown below, to the left, is a taco al pastor, literally "shepherd's style," prepared with pork marinated on a spit; to the right is a taco buche, which might be pig's stomach, or from the area immediately surrounding. Both tacos featured what seemed to be good cuts of meat, though the slippery texture of the buche may never be my favorite.
La Guera
46-03 Fifth Ave., Sunset Park, Brooklyn
718-437-0232
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